Researchers have identified and analyzed more than 2,000 Islamic manuscripts in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia. Traditionally, scholars in Islamic studies have not associated the Horn of ...

Oxford lecturer Eugene Rogan’s The Arabs: A History is as sweeping and epic as its title implies, a comprehensive look at the Arab world from the 1516 battle at Marj Dabiq—when a decisive Ottoman ...

Arabic newspapers in the United States played a significant role in shaping the life, culture, politics and history of Arab Americans as well as residents of countries in the Middle East. Beginning in ...

RIYADH (Reuters Life!) - History never really dies, at least not in the Middle East. Sign up here. The Fatimid caliphate, a medieval Arab Islamic empire based in Cairo, has been at the center of a ...

c. 500-630: Classical Age of Arab Poetry. 570-632: Mohammed. 610-632: Revelation of the Koran to Mohammed. 622: Hegira, beginning of Muslim (lunar) calendar. 633-647: Islam conquers the area of ...

BEIRUT — In 1990, Egyptian political scientist Fawzi Mansour wrote a book titled The Exodus of Arabs from History, chronicling the internal deterioration and deepening political irrelevancy of Arab ...