When it comes to interfaith dialogue, Muhammed Abu Layla’s memory can seem disconcertingly long. “Even during the crusades, we had good relations with you,” Mr. Abu Layla says, with an expansive ...

When it comes to chronicling the past, it seems there are basically two ways discoveries are made: either they’re the result ...

IRBIL, Iraq – The oldest Christian monastery in Iraq has been reduced to a field of rubble, yet another victim of the Islamic State group’s relentless destruction of ancient cultural sites. For 1,400 ...

MOSUL, Iraq, (Reuters) - Extensive excavations by Islamic State militants under Mosul's ancient Mosque of Jonah show they took care to preserve artifacts for loot, a local archaeologist said, in sharp ...

A DePauw history professor is the first historian to show that Islamic scholars, previously ignored by Western medicine, actually rejected ancient Greek traditions and advanced medicine centuries ...

In little more than a century, Muslim forces expanded from Arabia across the Middle East, North Africa, Spain, and Central Asia—defeating the Byzantine and Sassanid empires and reshaping global ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters have looted and bulldozed the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, the Iraqi government said, in their latest assault on some of the world's greatest ...

The Chinese government has stealthily surveilled, policed, and interned as many as 1.5 million Uighurs, an ethnic group in northwestern China that primarily practices Islam. But there is mounting ...

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A DePauw history professor is the first historian to show that Islamic scholars, previously ignored by Western medicine, actually rejected ancient Greek traditions and advanced medicine centuries ...