With its sea of minarets, centuries-old mosques, and timeworn alleys, Cairo -- a city steeped in history -- is ...

Abuna Yemata Guh, a remote and ancient church in a very difficult to access location The Sanctuary of the Virgin of the Crown ...

People walk on the Al-Muizz Street in Cairo, Egypt, on April 19, 2025. (Xinhua/Sui Xiankai) CAIRO, April 23 (Xinhua) -- With its sea of minarets, centuries-old ...

The princess was exiled from Istanbul with the rest of the Ottoman imperial family after the empire fell and the caliphate was abolished by the fledgling Republic of Turkey in 1924. Mourad’s ...

To avoid the wrath of the Fatimid caliph in Egypt, Ibn al-Haytham supposedly feigned madness and was placed under house arrest, giving him time to focus on optics. In doing so, he developed a ...

Studying the history of the translation movement and the philosophical and scientific efflorescence during the Abbasid Caliphate; the architectural wonders of Fatimid Cairo; reading the Shanameh of ...

The West’s Eurocentric version of scientific history omits some of the most important events that shaped modern thinking.

In the year 680, Imam Husayn ibn Ali – grandson of the Prophet Muhammad and son of the fourth caliph Ali – and his small group of soldiers were outnumbered and massacred by an army sent by the ...

An NBC News report from mid-2024 cited U.S. officials who believed Mumin, head of Islamic State in Somalia, was acting as the network’s overall leader, or caliph, though other analysts have ...

Generation Z is putting its own spin on knafeh, a dish first designed to quash a caliph’s hunger pangs Claire Turrell - Freelance writer Chef Fadi Kattan has fond memories of seeing a tray of ...