In the north of Spain, archaeologists have uncovered the chilling remains of a medieval society that lived hidden underground for centuries. The discovery of skeletons marked by disease, inbreeding, ...

In the 8th century, a revolution reshaped the Islamic world. The Abbasids overthrew the ruling Umayyad dynasty and seized ...

From medieval empires to Iran today, history shows killing rulers breeds chaos—so why does decapitation still drive Western Middle East policy?

Students in Joe Glynias' first-year seminar this semester are learning about the long history of ascetic practices in the medieval Middle ...

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Long before modern campuses, student unions and global rankings, there were centres of learning where scholars gathered to debate philosophy, law, astronomy and theology. What makes the following ...

I feel lost, as if I have misplaced myself somewhere between silence and clamor. The world withdrew the moment the internet was cut off, not merely into disconnection but into a condition of being ...

In late Ottoman Jerusalem, Jaffa and Haifa, Jewish intellectuals read Arabic fluently, translated medieval Islamic texts into Hebrew, argued about Arabic grammar, mapped the land, and treated ...