(RNS) — In a former segregated school in rural Virginia, an Islamic college has been reconnecting its American Muslim students with a legacy of faith and scholarship largely erased from mainstream ...

A DePauw history professor is the first historian to show that Islamic scholars, previously ignored by Western medicine, actually rejected ancient Greek traditions and advanced medicine centuries ...

Mosul has long been known for its religious diversity. Iraq's second largest city has been home to Persians, Arabs, Turks, and Christians of all denominations since it was first believed to have been ...

"Ancient Empires is a relatively brief yet comprehensive and even-handed overview of the ancient Near East, the Mediterranean, and Europe, including the Greco-Roman world, Late Antiquity, and the ...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Zoroastrian community has shrunk by half to 45,000 people since the country's 1979 Islamic revolution, as members of the ancient faith search for jobs and a better future in ...