Discover the Baghdad House of Wisdom, a medieval hub that pioneered modern science, mathematics, and medicine. Explore its ...

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. The 700-year-old fresco is thought to be the only ...

Medieval Ibiza was far from a quiet Mediterranean backwater. New DNA evidence shows that the island was part of a dynamic world linking Europe, North Africa and even the Sahel zone, south of Sahara.

Lovesickness was taken seriously as a distinct mental illness by physicians in the medieval Islamic world, new research shows. Islamic scholars considered lovesickness, which they called ʿishq, to be ...

Researchers analyzed the Sudanese landscape with a model originally created to analyze the spatial patterns of stars and galaxies. Costanzo et al. / PLOS One Archaeologists in eastern Sudan have ...

From mythical beasts to embroidery and dyeing processes, this monumental piece of Norman propaganda owes much to medieval ...

(The Conversation) — The war with Iran is not just a geopolitical conflict. We see religious rhetoric used to cast strategic interests as a moral or sacred matter. U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson ...

For people who would like to learn more about Islam, The Conversation is publishing a series of articles, available on our website or as six emails delivered every other day, written by Senior ...