Islam and the Dark Age of Byzantium
Islam had as debilitating an impact upon Byzantine Empire as it has on West Europe, the precipitation of the Dark Age, spanning 8th to 10th centuries...
View ArticleHow Muslim Piracy Changed the World!
Islamic piracy, especially in the Mediterranean waters and European coastal areas and terrotories, had an impact that went far beyond the economic impoverishment of Europe...
View ArticleIslam and the Rise of Violent Anti-Semitism
By the late seventh century, and certainly by the eighth, Islamic ideas began to penetrate Europe, where they had a profound influence. European Christians, for example, began to think, for the first...
View ArticleHow Islam Breathed New Life into Slavery and Slave-trade in Europe
Islam had a "decisive" role in the expansion of slavery in Europe...
View ArticleThe Crusades: A Response to Islamic Aggression
One of the most potent myths of our age is that the Crusades were little more than an unprovoked attack by a barbarous Europe against a quiescent and cultured Islamic world.
View ArticleHiding Your Assets: The Surprising Origin of the Burka & Niqab
The practice of acquiring beautiful wives of others by the Muslim ruling class, following Muhammad's example as he had acquired Zainab, the wife of his son-in-law (Zayd), had forced Muslims to...
View ArticleHow Islam Shaped the Medieval World?
How Islam had a defining role in shaping the medieval world for what it stood for....
View ArticleFate of the Library of Alexandria: Do Pyramids Hold the Secret?
Is the story of Caliph Omar's destruction of the Library of Alexandria a hoax?
View ArticleIslam: Savior or the Destroyer of Classical Civilization?
How Henri Pirenne's 'Mohammed et Charlemagne' (1938) became a thorn in the liberal paradigm in vogue since the 19th century that Islam was a savior of the classical civilization and the precursor of...
View ArticleThe Myth of Spain’s Islamic Golden Age
We have traditionally been told that the first two centuries of the Spanish Emirate, supposedly founded in 756 by Abd’ er Rahman I, constituted a veritable Golden Age of Spanish history. And indeed the...
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