A Paleo-Arabic inscription on a boulder near an abandoned mosque in Saudi Arabia may have been carved by Ḥanẓalah bin Abī ʿĀmir, a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, a new study finds.

The identification of an eleventh-century Islamic astrolabe bearing both Arabic and Hebrew inscriptions makes it one of the oldest examples ever discovered and one of only a handful known in the ...

Upper section of the 13th-century fresco showing the tent textile hanging around the walls of the apse, with eight-pointed star motifs and with pseudo-Arabic inscriptions above. Part of the later ...