Hinduism, often regarded as one of the world's oldest religions, has not only deeply shaped the spiritual and cultural fabric ...

The bulk of your research has been on Islamic legal systems that prevailed in the Indian Ocean region, particularly Shafi’ism ...

Smartphone apps, social media, and artificial intelligence are all making religion more accessible. Is it enough to slow ...

The earliest known world map was etched sometime around the 6th century BCE onto a small clay ... for control of the spice trade in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. In 1494, the two ...

Evidence indicates that the site was first settled as early as the fifth century A.D. but was apparently ... who feared that the world would end when the head was replaced. With its plethora ...

Sanskrit poetry did not simply disappear under Sultanate rule: it continued to evolve, and was enriched by contact with ...

These Brahmans, supposedly, introduced a new religion to the Archipelago which enabled the ... In the late 14th and early 15th century the influence of Majapahit in the Archipelago began to decline ...

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Long-term analysis of 198 countries and territories shows government restrictions on religion and social hostilities toward ...

When we receive a global call for help, we must respond appropriately as the world's bellwether of human rights. We must urge Prime Minister Muhammad Yunus to fulfill his promise of restoring ...

Anaximander's Map is considered by some to be the first-ever world map, and alleged versions of it have been shared across ...

According to The British Museum in London, the Babylonian Map is a depiction of the world carved onto a clay tablet at some point around the 6th century B.C.E. Some accounts suggest that the map ...