Muawiya,’ a controversial new series that offers a bold retelling of Islamic history, is a sign of Mohammad bin Sultan’s ...

During every Ramadan, these mosques remain vital centers of prayer, reflection, and Islamic heritage. Read to know about ...

The series was not broadcast on any Egyptian TV channels or platforms, only on MBC and Shahed. It was known that the director ...

In interviews with The New Arab, viewers and scholars expressed outrage over the Muawiya TV series’ controversial depiction ...

The British Empire stretched over 13 million square miles across several continents—23 percent of the world's land—at its height in 1922, whence comes the phrase: "The sun never sets on the ...

The series highlights the story of Muawiya I, the founder and first caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate, which is considered the point of contention between Sunni and Shia Muslims. The Senior Scholars ...

Built in the early 8th century beside the Wadi Butum, a seasonal watercourse, this desert establishment was both a fortress with a garrison and a residence/pleasure palace of the Umayyad caliphate.

Men started wearing a long one piece garment with sleeves called a thawb. In the Umayyad Caliphate (AD661 - 750) designers started making them patterned or striped. Many women wore a headscarf or ...

It saw significant growth under the Umayyads, who ruled the Muslim world ... For several centuries, the emirate and later the caliphate of Cordoba witnessed the proliferation of state-run textile ...

Wallada the only child of one of the last Umayyad caliphs alMustakfi murdered ... evocating the civil war and the fall of the Umayyad caliphate of alAndalus ...