Dhimmi are non-Muslim citizens of an Islamic state who are allowed to remain in exchange for paying the jizyah, a tax imposed on non-Muslims. As the Prophet Muhammad conquered a new empire, large ...

NEW YORK — The PBS documentary “Islam: Empire of Faith” is billed as the Public Broadcasting Service’s first-ever program to address the history and culture of Islam, the religion claimed by nearly ...

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) is one of the most formidable and unique terrorist organizations the world has ever seen. At the moment, it controls a large portion of territory across ...

Proverbially there are three sides to a story--my side, your side and what really happened. In the long and sometimes sordid history of Christian-Muslim relations, the West has historically played to ...

If you aren’t familiar, in Crusader Kings 3, players can take on the role of guiding medieval history. Real-world nations, cultures, religions, and politics are represented in a sandbox that allows ...

They call themselves the Army of God (Jund Allah) and claim to be fighting to unite mankind under the banner of Islam as “the only true faith.” To achieve that goal, they believe they should revive ...

Empires come and go. Their births and deaths are usually bathed in blood because they falsely believe everybody wants to be part of their parade. The Prophet Mohammed and cohorts started an empire ...

When a syrian named abd al-Rahman arrived in Spain in 755, a booming Islamic empire stretched from Asia Minor to the Pyrenees. But this member of a leading Damascus family, the Umayyads, was not after ...

Preoccupation with our own demise is a perennial feature of human history. From Herodotus through Josephus to Ibn Khaldun, all were captivated with the ways in which states that “were once great have ...