Islamic State's Islamist utopia has taken hold of the imagination of small Sunni communities almost everywhere, including in Brussels, where suicide bombers killed 32 people last month.

How Early Islamic Science Advanced Medicine. The growth of Islam in the seventh century sparked a golden age of scientic discovery. Building on the wisdom of ancient civilizations, Muslim doctors ...

The period from 750-1250 AD – known as the Golden Age of Islam – witnessed astonishing levels of intellectual production in all fields, with the curious exception of political science.

An Iranian citizen claims the Islamic republic built no shelters for airstrikes because residents are expected to tough through the bombings and “enjoy martyrdom.” ...

This longing for a return to pristine Islam included the re-creation of that imagined golden age’s political system. ... Rather, Islam was and is used and abused by rulers in order to shore up their ...

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At a young age, Al-Biruni left his hometown for Bukhara, then under the Samanid ruler Mansur II the son of Nuh. and he wandered around Iran and Uzbekistan. Then, after Mahmud of Ghazni, ... Al-Biruni ...

File: The 'Wastani Gate' on the historical wall of Baghdad, dating back to the Abbasid era known as the Islamic Golden Age from 750 to 960 AD on August 10, 2012. [Ali al Saad/AFP] By Maziar Motamedi ...

Many rulers in the Middle East began to accept Islam and Muhammad as a leader. ... The Islamic Golden age began during the Abbasid caliphate which was centred around the city of Baghdad.