The Church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is a purpose-built structure, and its purpose is the worship of the Christian God. This particular function is not incidental to the way the church was ...

Indonesia became the world’s largest Muslim-majority country not through conquest, but through trade, migration, and gradual cultural change. Beginning around the 13th century, Muslim merchants and ...

Medieval Authors on the Mongols -- The Islamic World and Inner Asian Peoples down to the Mongol Invasion -- The Mongol Westward Advance (1219-53) -- Apportioning and Governing an Empire (c. 1221-c.

Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn of Vienna speaks during a news conference at the Vatican, October 24, 2015. (Credit: RNS, courtesy of Reuters.) Listen ROME — Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, a ...

Robert Spencer, founder of Jihad Watch, told U.S. lawmakers that immigration is being used as a “Shariah tool,” warning of what he described as an “Islamic conquest” of the West. Spencer, an author ...

Hebrew Scripture has many accounts of great victories, such as Joshua’s conquest of the Holy Land and King David’s many successful battles against his enemies all around. But its pages are also filled ...

The Hindu right is especially bitter toward Islam, particularly in the context of Muslim rule over the Indian subcontinent for much of the past millennium. While this overlooks the contributions–food, ...

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