As the Chinese proverb goes, “When the winds of change blow, some build walls, others build windmills.” In the case of ...

Palmyra had a history of cooperation with Roman rule ... Eastern historians, such as the ninth-century Persian al-Tabari, believed that Zenobia was not Greek but of Arab descent.

Prophecy is a rare phenomenon, and all the more extraordinary is the prophet whose influence permanently transforms the lives of his people and leaves as a legacy one of the world’s great religions.

We are satisfied that their history books are based on conjecture ... scholar Ibn Katheer and 10th century scholar from Baghdad, Al-Tabari. Luay Al-Shareef, a known peace activist residing ...

Saint Louis Art Museum Photograph by Bridgeman/ACI A specialist in Islamic History, Víctor Pallejà de Bustinza is an Associate Professor of Humanities at the Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona ...

The classical Sunni commentator Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (died 923) clarified that this referred to the practice of homosexuality. Sunni commentator Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Thalabi (died 1035 ...