In the 8th century Middle East, a new dynasty seized control of one of the world’s greatest empires – the Islamic Caliphate. Though little remembered in the west today, the Abbasids reigned ...

Over the succeeding centuries, despite several militarily successful Muslim dynasties and giants of science who fundamentally contributed to Western science, the Muslim world missed out on the ...

It drew upon poetic sources that were preserved in both written and oral form from the pre-Islamic period. As the Abbasid caliphate lost power in the ninth century, several Iranian dynasties of ...

India's first Islamic dynasty was established in the early 13th Century. At the centre of the row is a 16th-Century mosque that was demolished by Hindu mobs in 1992, sparking riots that killed ...