The findings were published in the journal Antiquity. The Battle of al-Qadisiyyah, fought in 636 AD in what is now Iraq, was ...

As part of their survey, researchers examined declassified U.S. spy satellite imagery from the 1970s, which is now in the public domain, and compared the visual data to modern-day photography and ...

"The Succession of Muhammad is not a work for the faint of heart....it is a compelling reassessment of the Rashidun caliphate that should be required reading for evryone interested in the ...

Non-Muslims were banned from entering and living in the region’s Rashidun Caliphate, the empire that immediately succeeded ...

The Rashidun Caliphate spanned 3.6 million square miles at its peak in 654, before being followed by another Islamic Caliphate. It was the largest empire by land area ever at that point in history.

He is the author of Parable and Politics in Early Islamic History: The Rashidun Caliphs (2010) and Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography: Harun al-Rashid and the Narrative of the Abbasid Caliphate ...

They were the successors to Muhammad. The first major caliphate was the Rashidun Caliphate, followed by the Umayyad Caliphate and the Abbasid Caliphate. The Islamic Golden age began during the ...

Antioch surrenders to Muslim forces under Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of Iron bridge 1270: The Eighth Crusade and ...

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) says the Islamic State group's five-year "caliphate" is over after the militants' defeat in Syria. SDF fighters have been raising victory flags in ...

Over 2000 radical Islamists gathered in Hamburg, Germany, on Saturday to call for a caliphate and the implementation of Sharia law, German news reported. In the footage from the gathering ...

Learn first when new episodes drop of the audio documentary series following Rukmini Callimachi on her quest to understand ISIS. You'll receive Top Stories notifications after the series ends ...