In a divided world, sacred spaces like Al Aqsa and Babri Masjid, which have raised nationalistic fervour, should have endured ...

Riyadh: The holy Kiswah which covers the Kaaba will be screened at the Islamic Arts Biennale, 2025 in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah. This will be the first time that Kiswah will be shown outside ...

Mansa Musa's net worth, which positions him as the wealthiest man in history is still debatable. As the richest possessor of ...

Riyadh: The Kaaba, located in the city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, is a highly sacred place for Muslims around the world. Muslims going for Hajj feel fortunate just to see the Kaaba and touch its wall.

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For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul until it was destroyed by the Islamic State group in 2017 MOSUL ...

The behavior of Saudi Arabia’s most powerful prince invites a peculiar fascination. Mohammed Bin Salman, 39, effectively runs the oil-rich state as his 89-year-old father Salman ails.

The regime set up by Hafez al-Assad after the coup d'état of November 13, 1970, had only one objective: Its own continuity, ...

Located in modern-day Turkey, the 13th-century Divrigi Hospital was built alongside a mosque, and the two are ... the practice of medicine made great progress as well. New treatments were ...

If “Great Migrations: A People on the Move” had ... His reasoning for this reprioritizing made sense six years ago when Salon spoke to him about that project. From the perspective of 2025 ...

the on-site mosque said to be modeled after the Great Mosque of Mecca. With fewer crowds than the Taj Mahal or Agra Fort, Fatehpur Sikri is a favorite among travelers for its ornate and detailed ...