The Islamophobe blogosphere last week was in full swing concerning a supposed terror threat to the London Olympics, a terror threat that turned out to be no threat at all. Don’t expect any of those websites to publicly retract of course, this latest non issue is just one […]
Guest Post by Lamia Harkati, student at Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, Michigan, USA Last weekend, hundreds of people gathered to attend the annual Arab festival in our city of Dearborn, Michigan. As a mixed environment of Muslims and Christians, the festival has become a platform for some […]
During the time of the Kingdom of Mercia, England, AD 773-96 an Islamic inscription on an English coin appeared. This unique gold coin of Offa, king of Mercia, is one of the most remarkable English coins of the Middle Ages. It is remarkable because it imitates a […]
The history of ‘X’, and how a failure to pronounce the Arabic word ‘shay’n’ in Spanish led to a ubiquitous symbol in mathematics.