And I know all about Anne Boleyn, but not nearly enough about Roxelana, who rose from an enslaved concubine to consort and ushered in the Sultanate of Women, so called because of the unprecedented political power of royal women in the 16th and 17th century.

Would the Renaissance, Humanism, and the Protestant Reformation have even have happened if not for the work of Arabic scholars engaging with the literature of Ancient Greece? lithub.com/how-arabic-t...

How Arabic Translations of Ancient Greek Texts Started a New Scientific Revolution

In the eighth-century CE the Abbasids undertook to collect the wisdom of the world in their new capital at Baghdad. This project started with the second Abbasid caliph, al-Mansur (“the Conque…