These novels blend the substantiated with the surreal, offering new ways to understand the past through magic, monsters and ...

Between 935 and 969, another short-lived dynasty, the Ikhshids, ruled a virtually independent Egypt with the acquiescence of the Abbasids in Baghdad.

The Islamization of Persia took centuries. Many remained Zoroastrians for generations. Later, under the Abbasid Empire, Islam became dominant. In the 16th century, Shi’a Islam was also forced on ...

But Iran was also quick to declare victory despite suffering more than 600 military and civilian casualties by pointing at ...

One Redditor offers their insight on how to enrich the gameplay mechanics of historical Islamic governments in Crusader Kings 3.

Since the rise of Islam in the 7th century CE, a persistent undercurrent of Arab hostility toward Iran, Jews, and other ...

Samarra Archaeological City is the site of a powerful Islamic capital city that ruled over the provinces of the Abbasid Empire extending from Tunisia to Central Asia for a century. Located on both ...

Both Iran and Russia are attempting to assert influence in the Caspian Sea region, but their recent miscalculations are ...