How Buddhism slowed the rise of the Islamic Empire
History often speaks of the continuous rise of Islam with the arrival of Prophet Muhammad in the 7th century. But Buddhism ...
Cfr.org5 年
Excerpt: The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State
But accepting the historical law that dead empires do not rise again may lead us to miss what is probably the single most important aspect of the new Islamic state, namely, its aspiration to ...
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Rise of the Abbasids: Islam's Mightiest Dynasty
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 ...
BBC5 年
The rise and fall of the Islamic State group: The long and short story
A US-backed alliance of Syrian fighters has announced that the United States and its partners have reclaimed the last territory in Syria controlled by Islamic State (IS) militants. But who are ...
Cambridge University Press1 年
The Origins of Perso-Islamic Courts and Empires in India
By tracing the historical thread of this influence from Samanid, Ghaznavid, and Ghurid empires, Auer demonstrates how ... the theory and praxis of politics during the rise of a ‘Persian imperium’.’ ...
BBC9 天
Medieval Islamic civilisations
The Islamic Empire was a time of great innovation, especially in maths, science, and medicine. Arab mathematicians helped to popularise the Indian number system, with its symbol for zero ...