History

Arabia Before Islam History is often shaped in places that few people expect. When people think of the great civilisations of the ancient world, they picture the temples of Egypt, the academies of Athens, the roads of Rome or the palaces of Persia. Rarely do they imagine the deserts of Arabia. To many of the powerful…

History remembers civilisations for what they leave behind. Ancient Egypt is remembered for its monuments. Greece for philosophy. Rome for law and engineering. China for its technological innovations. Islamic civilisation left a different kind of legacy. Over many centuries it became one of the world’s great centres of learning, scholarship, trade, architecture and scientific enquiry. From…