Mohan Bhagwat’s recent remarks in Lucknow have once again revived an old and persistent question: Why are Hindu nationalist ...

Today, modern linguists consider Yemenite Hebrew a living comparator to ancient Semitic languages — a tool for reconstructing ...

Mecca is the religion’s most iconic destination. But these exquisite mosques and shrines found from Tunisia to Syria also honor its sacred history. The skyline of Jerusalem’s Old City is dominated by ...

Are Muslims a persecuted group in India during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration? Do they feel insecure under his ...

The Arabic text along the Virgin Mary’s dress “runs so counter to our clash-of-civilizations mindset about Christianity and ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the submerged ruins of a medieval Silk Road city beneath Lake Issyk-Kul. Located in ...

A rare medieval box that once contained the heart of an abbot who died in 1291 has gone on display. The Heart Case of Roger ...

Friends in India and abroad wished to have a compilation of documentary evidence of how Indian State and Supreme Court facilitated the Hindutva project of obliterating a historic mosque at Ayodhya ...

Life in many medieval towns revolved around constructing a cathedral, a massive undertaking that took generations of work by everyone from artists and architects to prisoners of war. Work in ...

This week, the White House announced an executive order that called for certain chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood to be designated as foreign terrorist organizations. Founded in Egypt in 1928, the ...

Archaeologists at the castle of Zorita de los Canes in Guadalajara province uncovered a knight who died between the 13th and ...

Religious maps from the 1300s showing tribal Israel inadvertently became the blueprint for how later mapmakers drew political ...