Islam

The Ottoman biographer, historian and former career military officer Katib Celebi (d.

In the history of Islamic literature, there is a genre called arba?

In the first centuries of Islam, Arabic gradually replaced Middle Persian to become the language of the new religion and the administration of Iran.

The final years of the reign of the Safavids (1501-1722) have been described by many (near-) contemporary authors.

In Persia under the Qajars (1210-1344/1796-1925) tribal leaders played an important role; at the regional level and also in matters of state.

In the Islamic middle ages, urban histories were for the most part not the kind of chronicle that one might think, covering the political, economic, or cultural history of a particular city over a certain time.

Turuq and turuq-linked institutions by Frederick De Jong was first published in 1978.

The Islamic Veil Affairs (2003-4 and 2009-2011), which led to the banning of Muslim girls wearing Islamic headscarves in French public schools and women wearing full-face veils in public, have raised serious concerns about the relationship between secularism and the freedom of religious expression.

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In the history of Persian literature, one finds quite a number of works by famous authors which later served as a model for similar works by other writers.

In the Islamic world, universal histories have been written almost from the very beginning.

Rashid al-Din Hamadani's (d.