"The interplay between painted and actual textiles can be found throughout Europe and the Islamic world in the late medieval period." Gigante's study notes that the walls of the apse are studded ...

Unlike medical literature today, which is specialized, in the medieval Islamic world it was integrated with natural science, astrology, alchemy, religion, philosophy and mathematics. Islamic ...

The medieval astronomical instrument comes from the 11th-century Al-Andalus region, which is now modern-day Spain. The ...

Gigante's discovery sheds new light on the cultural exchanges between the Islamic world and medieval Europe. "Many people don't realize how extraordinarily advanced and admired Islamic culture was ...

Industries in silk, glass and tiles were developed and Baghdad was the first city in the Islamic world to have its own paper mill. A technique learnt from Chinese travellers. The city attracted ...

Andalusian philosopher is known for a number of key ideas adopted by later Sufis, including the unity of being, the concept ...

The Eurocentric concept of the “Dark Ages” has often obscured the rich, diverse, and sophisticated developments in Africa.

His work centers on Muslim-Christian-Jewish relations and ethno-religious identity in medieval Europe and the Islamic World, and the history of the pre-Modern Mediterranean. In addition to many ...

In other cities across the new Islamic world, Muslim patrons hired these ... THE ART OF MEDICINE Medieval Islamic doctors broke new ground in diagnosing and treating infectious diseases such ...