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Saladin (c. 1137 – 1193 CE), the Muslim ruler who crushed the mighty Crusader army at the Horns of Hattin (1187 CE) and re-took Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader control, was born in a world where the disunity of the Muslims had allowed...

Dungur Palace is in the Ethiopian village of Aksum—once the bustling capital of an African empire that stretched from southern Egypt to Yemen. The 6th-century mansion contains approximately 50 rooms, including a bathing area, kitchen, and...

Map of the Ayyubid Sultanate at the death of Saladin, 1193 CE, showing its political subdivisions and cities. Borders are approximate only, especially in Yemen and western Arabia.

This bronze hand was found in Yemen (100-300 CE). The inscription on the hand asks for good fortune for the devotee Ta'lab. This image was taken at the National Museum of Australia in the travelling exhibition A History of the World in...

Shibam, Yemen, the oldest skyscraper city in the world.

Remains of the Ma'rib Dam, in modern-day Yemen. The oldest known dam in the world, blocking the ravine of Dhana (the Wadi Adanah), it was built under the reign of the Sabean mukarrib Yatha’ Amar Watta I (c. 760-740 BCE). It failed in c. 575...

The greatest temple in Saba – known as Mahram Bilqis, near the capital of Ma'rib, in modern-day Yemen – was dedicated to Almakah and was revered as a sacred site in the region long after the Sabean Kingdom itself was gone.

Situated in a mountain valley at an altitude of 2,200 m, Sana'a, Yemen has been inhabited for more than 2,500 years. In the 7th and 8th centuries the city became a major centre for the propagation of Islam. This religious and political heritage...

The Ottoman Sultanate (1299-1922 as an empire; 1922-1924 as caliphate only), also referred to as the Ottoman Empire, written in Turkish as Osmanlı Devleti, was a Turkic imperial state that was conceived by and named after Osman (l. 1258-1326...

Suleiman the Magnificent (aka Süleyman I or Suleiman I, r. 1520-1566) was the tenth and longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Hailed as a skilled military commander, a just ruler, and a divinely anointed monarch during his lifetime...