For centuries, the Islamic world stood at the forefront of science and philosophy, guiding humanity through an age of ...

Thousands of medieval Islamic tombs in eastern Sudan were arranged in hard-to-detect patterns, with sacred "parent" tombs hosting subclusters of emanating burials.

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As a social historian of the medieval Islamic world, I think and write about the role of religion in daily life. Looking at how people thought about science and religion in the past can inform the ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) image: Girih-tile reconstruction of the large-tile girih pattern from an archway of the Darb-i Imam shrine, Isfahan, Iran (1453 C.E.).

WASHINGTON - Those wondrously intricate tile mosaics that adorn medieval Islamic architecture may cloak a mastery of geometry not matched in the West for hundreds of years.

A long-standing myth about medieval history is that the Middle Ages were intellectually dark. Science supposedly took a hiatus between the demise of Rome and the rise of Copernican astronomy and ...

Avinoam Shalem, Fountains of Light: The Meaning of Medieval Islamic Rock Crystal Lamps, Muqarnas, Vol. 11 (1994), pp. 1-11 ...

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 ...

But it has meeting rooms that are named after these medieval Arabic and Islamic scholars. This Golden Age memory, this heritage, is still very much a part of the modern science landscape.

Eclipses have fascinated people since the earliest days of recorded history. These rare astronomical events have helped explain the world around us—from ancient Mesopotamia to medieval Islamic ...