“Authentic and What Real Muslims Wore”: Medieval Textiles as a Source of Religious Authenticity in Contemporary Knitting Patterns. TEXTILE, p. 1. The Mamluk Sultanate ruled Egypt, Syria and the ...

A 14th century lamp from an Egyptian mosque, one of the rarest, most beautiful of its kind has sold for £5million, a world ...

Mamluk, working with Al-Quds Al-Youm TV channel, was killed in an Israeli bombing on Monday evening in Gaza City.

The Mamluk Sultanate ruled Egypt, Syria and the Arabian hinterland along the Red Sea. Lasting from the deposition of the Ayyubid dynasty (c. 1250) to the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in 1517, this regime ...

Princess Fazile, who has died in Istanbul aged 83, could have become a romantic young queen of Iraq in 1958, and later a ...

The lamp was consigned by a descendant of Egypt’s first Prime Minister, Nubar Pasha, having been in the family for more than ...

The modern village of Khirbet Ain is located some seven kilometres southwest of Rihab, a hilly area with seasonal springs accessible by roads. “Prominent remains in this region date back to at least ...

In 1347 slave traders from the Black Sea brought with them something far deadlier than a cargo of future Mamluk warriors: the Black Death. Plague infested the whole of the known world, but nowhere ...

From its origins in gambling, to a canvas for artists and political expression, tarot went through one last transformation in the 18th century before its revival as a spiritual tool in the 1970s.

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

Following the death of Muhammad of Ghor in 1206, Qutb-ud-Din Aybak proclaimed himself Sultan of Delhi and established the Mamluk (or Slave) dynasty, the first of five successive dynasties with ...

Demolitions in Cairo's City of the Dead, have sparked a backlash over the destruction of historic tombs, with calls for ...