Islamic Empire

The oral traditions in the Islamic world presented only the moral benefits of Jihad. Yet, the fact is that, though the moral benefits continued to exist before and after the First Crusade, though the interest seemed to have been present and the necessary intellectual theories co…

The aim of this dissertation is to study the most salient political ideas of the peoples of Arabia and its neighboring regions from the time of the Prophet Muh[dotbelow]ammad (ca. 570 AD) up to the establishment of a dynastic principle in Islamic politics in the reign of Mu'awiy…

After the fall of Rome, how did the work and words of the ancient Greek philosophers make their way, textually and intellectually, into later European thought? There were two primary and obvious paths that this Greek literature could have taken to reach medieval Europe after the…