Photographs obtained by The Independent reveal how workers with drills and mechanical diggers have started demolishing some Ottoman and Abbasid sections on the eastern side of the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca. The building, which is also known as the Grand Mosque, is the holiest site in Islam because it contains the Kaaba – the point to which all Muslims face when praying. The columns are the last remaining sections of the mosque which date back more than a few hundred…
A coin from the Kingdom of Arakan, a Muslim state that existed in Burma in the 1500s. Muslims have lived in Burma since the 700s. Today, the Muslims of Burma, known…
Today, Mali is known as one of the poorest countries on earth. Life expectancy and literacy rates are dangerously low. A violent rebellion by the ethnic Tauregs in the North of the country…
A brief history of Coffee by Archive Islam Discovered in the 1400s in Yemen. The first coffee house opened in 1554 in Istanbul, Turkey.…