Buried beneath desert sands for over a millennium, a hidden monastery has emerged in Israel—revealing how early Christian ...

The Byzantine Empire in the 7th century was wrecked by military strife. The empire was halved, with its richest territories in Egypt, North Africa, and the Levant lost to the expanding Islamic ...

All praise is due to Allah, the Exalted, who has brought the Quran to us through the best companions of the Messenger! May ...

Jesus believed in the imminent end of the world and the coming of the “Day of the Lord,” but that day never arrived, and ...

Perhaps, then, the rise of Islam should be read "in reverse ... launches a full-scale invasion of the Byzantine Empire. For twenty-five years, a relentless back-and-forth of blitzkrieg campaigns ...

Muawiya and his parents converted to Islam. Muawiya became one of Muhammad’s scribes, and after the prophet’s death, he took a leading role in the conquest of Syria from the Byzantine empire.

Permanent occupation began 2,000 years ago with Nabataeans, continuing to the Roman, Byzantine, early Islamic and modern inhabitants ... village was formed and developed during the Roman Empire which ...

Some cities are more than just places to visit—they are living museums, preserving centuries of history, culture, and ...

The Byzantines heavily influenced the Islamic scientists, who preserved and expanded ... Astronomy and mathematics were also scientific fields that flourished in the Byzantine Empire. Numerous ...