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 ...

not geography. The Latin word imperium, for example, is often translated as "empire" but it's more accurate to say it means "authority" or "power." In other words, "empire" in the Middle Ages was ...

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 ...

During the holy month of Ramadan, Ahram Online publishes this article on Women’s roles during the Islamic era. Women and religious life in the middle ages between Islam and the West an ...