Ahead of a major reinstallation in 2027, the Toledo Museum of Art is filling gaps in its collection, the Kiddush cup filled ...

The revelation centers on a text called a "maqāma" - an Arabic literary genre featuring traveling tricksters - written by the poet and historian Ibn al-Wardi in 1348-49 in Aleppo, according to the new ...

Since October 7th, many Muslim organizations and communities, including those in Lehigh Valley, have stayed silent about the ...

C enturies before questionable COVID-19 information began rippling through social media, another inaccurate account of ...

A journey across Sicily reveals the essence of an island shaped by outsiders, where successive waves of immigration over the ...

A new study shows how a medieval text was misread as history, shaping how the Black Death’s spread was understood for ...

Geography, demographics, religion, technology, and a state’s institutions determined why certain states exercised power and how different regions developed the way that they did.

Discovered in a crumbling desert castle located in modern-day Jordan, a fresco known as the “Six Kings of the Earth” provides a curious glimpse into the early medieval Islamic world. It is especially ...

Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif’s recent outburst, claiming that “India will be buried under the debris of its warplanes” and that the country “was never united except briefly under Aurangzeb ...

The Department of History presents the 2025 Dr. H. Nicholas Hamner Lecture. Dr. Thomas E. Burman will be giving a lecture titled "Choosing Eschatologies in the Medieval Mediterranean: Ramon Martí (fl.

In 1462, a host of Ottoman soldiers trudged through the countryside of what is now southern Romania, then the principality of Wallachia, towards its capital, Târgoviște – the fortress of Vlad III ...

A newly published book reveals that art objects - both Muslim and Christian - played a pivotal role in fostering peace and coexistence among the culturally diverse coastal communities of the medieval ...