Food, religious rituals, gender relations … Ibn Battuta described them all in his travelogue, which covered the medieval ...

Over the centuries, rulers and believers preserved and expanded the mosque. From the early Umayyad renovations to modern Saudi enhancements, Quba has retained its spiritual core while embracing ...

The Great Umayyad Mosque, with its 11th-century minaret, was reduced to dust. The historic souks (markets) and caravans, once signifiers of life and culture in Aleppo, were destroyed by bombings and ...

One of its finest is the exquisite Tareq Rajab Museum of Islamic Calligraphy, which is only a ten-minute cab ride from the City to Jabriya, and well-worth the trip to see its sizeable collection of ...

The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus is one of the oldest continuously used religious sites in the world. The mosque we see today was built in 705 CE by the Umayyad caliph al-Walid on top of a ...

The Union asserted that what happened in the Great Umayyad Mosque is part of the repeated attacks on Islamic Sanctities according to a methodical plan by Israel and its protector the United States.

Korean officials discovered the painting in the Smart Museum’s collection at the University of Chicago. It was stolen from a temple nearly 35 years ago.

A crystal-covered chair inspired by one of Vincent Van Gogh’s most famous paintings was seriously damaged when a tourist sat on it while posing for a photograph, according to the Italian museum ...

In his first public appearance since fighters entered the Damascus suburbs Saturday, al-Golani visited the sprawling Umayyad Mosque and called Assad's fall “a victory to the Islamic nation.” ...