IN ARABIC, qaseeda means a panegyric ode and ‘burda’ means a shawl-like fabric worn over the shoulders, a mantle. Qaseeda ...

Entering Auschwitz on Saturday, January 27, 1945, the Soviet soldiers struggled to make sense of what they saw. The camp’s liberation had not come cheaply: overcoming fierce resistance from German ...

The early Sufis emulated the piety of the Prophet (PBUH). However, it was Ibn al-Arabi’s overblown syncretic Sufi movement which assimilated alien ideas of every stripe and brought the idea of ...

Muslims hold the Quran to be the unmediated and perfect Word of God. As such, the scripture lays out both Islam’s belief ...

The Quad-City Symphony Orchestra will present “Omar’s Journey,” a concert opera adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning work ...

The Emirates Literature Foundation in collaboration with the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre has announced the launch of the MBRSC Short Story Awar ...

Egyptian social media has been abuzz with debate about Al-Azhar University's potential plan to Arabize medical sciences amid ...

Far from feeling constrained by what the Bible says, the Middle Ages speculated boldly on whether God could have created an ...

Cox & Kings’ specialist tours are designed for culture lovers who want to immerse themselves in the places they visit ...

Based on Xuanzang’s account, Nalanda Mahavihara had an observatory tower, which could have been used to track the movement of ...

Videos verified by The Post show retaliatory killings by Sudan’s military after it recaptured the southern city of Wad Madani ...

From this brief mandate, Syria inherited a parliamentary system modeled after France’s, but political parties were little ...