ANKARA, Turkey – Islamic warriors burst out of Arabia in the seventh century, conquering the great Persian Empire and lands stretching from the Middle East to Spain and Central Asia. With them, they ...
A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity; By Michael A. Cook; Princeton University Press; 960 pp., $39.95 “The text,” Ted replies. “OK, that’s right. But they never ...
In the fall of 1776, as the newly independent American colonies set about drafting their individual state constitutions, a furious debate erupted over the rights of religious minorities. Preachers and ...