Deadly violence in Syria has once again spotlighted the Alawites, a secretive religious minority tied to Bashar al-Assad.

The story of a divisive Islamic ruler from ancient times, produced by a broadcaster in the Sunni kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has ...

Europe has been dying for nearly 100 years. Five notable years stand out for the beginning of Europe’s demise: 1) In 1933, Hitler used his position as the leader of the largest minority party to seize ...

The Silk Road was a network of land and sea-based trade routes that connected parts of the African, Asian, and European ...

By contrast, in the hadith we find all manner of telling titbits: for example, that Muhammad considered three things ... the earliest was composed a century after the Prophet’s death in 632 and the ...

From humble beginnings as the leader of a confederation of tribes in Medina, Muhammad's community of believers (the umma) expanded to encompass almost the entirety of the Arabian Peninsula by the time ...

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