Islamic leaders called caliphs ... So we’ve discovered that people in the Middle Ages understood geography and made some great art. The misconception that Europeans knew very little about ...

Under the title “Gab es das Mittelalter im Islam?” (Were there any Middle Ages in Islam?), the scholar of Arabic studies Prof. Dr. Thomas Bauer will discuss theses of his publication “Warum es kein ...

Who were the most important thinkers of the Islamic world during the Middle Ages? While there would be too many to include in a single article, there have been several Islamic philosophers from ...

His title is somewhat misleading, for the last two chapters take us beyond the strict limit of the geography of the Middle Ages and introduce the great Age of Discovery. The author shows how ...