Persian and other Islamic literature celebrated male homoerotic love as a form of divine longing – until Western moral codes ...
In the 8th century Middle East, a new dynasty seized control of one of the world’s greatest empires – the Islamic Caliphate. Though little remembered in the west today, the Abbasids reigned for five ...
A new documentary series from Uzbekistan explores how Central Asian scholars shaped global science, challenging Eurocentric ...