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A passage from old Arabian poetry which speaks about "fortresses", and regardless of how long these places have been around, they will some day be…
The Umayyad period was a period that begun in 661 with the murder of Ali, who was thought to be the successor to Muhammad by many communities. This is…
After provoking the Pagan leaders of his community in Mecca by preaching the belief of a single god through the claim of being a prophet by speaking…
It is not determined whether this sermon was given in Mecca, Medina, or both, however it is understood that these are criticisms of Abu Hamza, a…
For a while, Arabia was not part of the interactions between the many Empires in the fertile crescent such as the Sassanians or Byzantines. It was a…
Hellenist Artifacts in ArabiaObjects and artifacts that are evidence of how far into Arabia the Hellenistic influence reached pre-Islam, going as far as Qaryah Qaryat al Faw, deep…
Dome of the RockSaid to mark the beginning of a "crystallization of a distinctly Islamic identity" (Berkey, 62). It is a building that was built in Jerusalem by the…
The KoranThe Koran, along with other objects are helpful in recognizing the comparative approach that Islam was based on. It is an example of the lines that…
A story from a group of philosophers who lived during the tenth century under the Abbasid Caliphate. The stories they wrote contained a "systematized…
Among the most widely known Arabic works, The Thousand and One Nights by an anonymous author sits towards the top. Though this is true, Arabic…