Via Newsweek’s OnFaith blog President Obama is making his long-awaited speech to the Muslim world…
Tag: Fatimids
When al-Mu’ayyad-din Shirazi had left Shiraz in Persia for Fatimid Egypt, he was very hopeful…
The latest IIS publication, Orations of the Fatimid Caliphs: Festival Sermons of the Ismaili Imams…
VIRGINIA Commonwealth University in Qatar’s Gallery director and assistant professor in Art History, Dr Jochen…
Drs. Farhad Daftary and Shainool Jiwa participated in a conference on ‘The Fatimids and the…
By Paul Walker The Fatimid empire was a highly sophisticated and cosmopolitan regime that flourished…
A 1,000-year-old carved rock crystal ewer, one of only seven known surviving examples, fetched 3.2…
Friday, October 3, 2008 6:00 pm Dr. Miriam Ali-de-Unzaga, D.Phil. from the University of Oxford,…
Persian historians, following ‘Ata-Malik Juwayni’s eyewitness accounts in The History of the World Conqueror, record…
Historically, the Ramadan cannon has served as a means to announce the end of the…
LONDON (Reuters Life!) – A 1,000-year-old carved rock crystal ewer, one of only seven known…
“The idea of Al-Mesaharati emerged from a creative imitation of the old Fatimid tradition of…
Ancient Greek Babylonian and Indian mathematicians had all found ways of calculating missing numbers. Al-Khwarizmi…
The Dar al-Ilm (House of Knowledge) was founded in Cairo, Egypt by the Fatimid Caliph-Imam…
Ma’ad al-Mu’izz li Dīn Allah (932–975) (Arabic: معاذ المعز لدين الله), also known as al’Moezz,…