Those wondrously intricate tile mosaics that adorn medieval Islamic architecture may contain a mastery of geometry not matched in the West for hundreds of years. Historians have long assumed that ...

Photoshop CC 2014 tutorial showing how to design and create a powerful, engraved metallic, medieval coat of arms logo.

Medicine was an important part of medieval Islamic life; both rich and poor people were interested in health and diseases. Islamic doctors and a number of scholars wrote profusely on health and ...

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to ...

More importantly perhaps for Holsinger, harping on the jihadists of the Islamic State being agents of some sort of "medieval" order is unfair to, well, medieval history. He explains ...

Today, historian Farhad Daftary debunks the idea that Islamic State is based on the so-called Assassins or hashishin, the fighting corps of the fledgling medieval Nizari Ismaili state. Many ...