Introduction: A day in the life of Damascus -- Palimpsests in stone and layered texts: the multiple histories of the Umayyad Mosque -- Tangled memories: the temple, church, and first mosque -- The ...

DAMASCUS, Syria, June 1, 2006 — -- A Britney Spears poster hangs adoringly in a shop window, her lusty expression just feet from an equally iconic photo of the extremist Islamic cleric Muqtada al ...

At the historic Umayyad Mosque in the heart of Damascus, a red, white, black and green flag flies. On the other side of the Syrian capital, former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s palace burns. An ...

The Caliphate City of Medina Azahara is an archaeological site of a newly-founded city built in the mid-10th century CE by the western Umayyad dynasty as the seat of the Caliphate of Cordoba. The city ...

What if the Umayyad Caliphate returned? See a hypothetical scenario where Saudi Arabia leads a new empire, facing challenges from the Middle East to North Africa and even Spain!

Before the modern Israeli state, there was a British mandate, not a Palestinian state. Before the British mandate, the Ottoman Empire existed. Before the Ottoman Empire, there was a fully Islamic ...