Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq: The Scholar Who Taught a Generation of Scientists
Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq: The Scholar Who Taught a Generation of ScientistsThere is a strange gap in how Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq is remembered.In …
The Man Who Could Read It: Why the Indus Script Still Defeats Us
In the Louvre, in the Mesopotamian galleries, there is a small serpentine cylinder seal catalogued as AO 22310. It is under three centimetr…
The Last War of Antiquity: How Rome and Persia Destroyed Each Other
For nearly seven hundred years, two empires had faced each other across the deserts and mountains of the Near East. Rome — by the seventh c…
The Vanishing Imam: Inside Islam's Greatest Unsolved Theological Mystery
In the garrison city of Samarra, in the year 260 AH (874 CE), a five-year-old boy is said to have led the funeral prayer for his own father…
What Was on Earth Before Humans: Science and Faith
Long before the first human being ever opened their eyes, Earth was already an old and restless world. Mountains rose and wore away, oceans…
How Siraj-ud-Daula Lost the Battle of Plassey
IntroductionOn the morning of 23 June 1757, in a mango grove beside the village of Palashi (anglicised as "Plassey") on the banks of the Bh…
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