The manuscript grew in importance over the centuries, both because of its worldwide medical usefulness and because of its author - Asaad bin Elias bin Jarjis, Muwaffaq al-Din Ibn al-Mutran, the ...

My name, Richard, was given to me in honour of the English King, Richard the Lionheart, who once fought against the Sultan Saladin over Jerusalem during the Third Crusade in the 1100s. I wanted to ...

Kingdom of Heaven, released in 2005, is celebrating 20 years with a new 4K UHD Blu-ray Steelbook that includes a restored and ...

The keys of Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the operation of its doors have been entrusted to two Muslim families for centuries ...

During the Crusades, Sultan Saladin of Egypt and Syria refused the enormous sum of a thousand gold ducats from King Philip of France to return his pure white gyr, which had flown across the battle ...

The story of Saladin has been told many times. One of the most influential portraits of the 12th-century Ayyubid sultan appeared in a work of fiction, Sir Walter Scott’s The Talisman (1825). In that ...

In this article, Jeremy Salt chronicles the deliberate destruction of Gaza's people, history, culture, and identity.

Moses Maimonides became the personal doctor of Saladin, the Muslim champion against ... In 1466 he presented the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II with the medical atlas Imperial Surgery, which contains ...

Abuna Yemata Guh, a remote and ancient church in a very difficult to access location The Sanctuary of the Virgin of the Crown ...