The MB is a religiopolitical organization founded in 1928 in Egypt by an Islamic scholar and teacher named Hassan al-Banna, following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. He envisioned the ...

The Islamic Empire was a time of great innovation, especially in maths, science, and medicine. Arab mathematicians helped to popularise the Indian number system, with its symbol for zero ...

In the late 10th century, a nomadic chief named Seljuk broke away from his Khazar overlords in the north of the Caspian Sea.

Nomads who had been enlisted to fight the Mongol hordes staked their own claim and took over, transforming the Islamic world. They created the vast Ottoman empire that expanded westward into ...

The long-simmering conflict in Kashmir, India, blew up on Tuesday, when Islamic Kashmir separatists killed 26 tourists and injured over a dozen others. The attack was the deadliest terrorist attack in ...