Built in the 13th century for the rulers of the Nasrid Dynasty, the Alhambra attests to the rich influence of Arab culture in southern Spain. The earliest documents about the area date back to the 9th ...

If it's a bit of paradise on earth you're after, look to the idealized world hidden within the walls of an Islamic garden. Should the Arab world be outside your reach, you'll find that effect fully ...

It started out as a way to pass an idle moment, and quickly became a habit. Every afternoon during a recent visit to Granada, the onetime capital of the last Islamic emirate in Spain, I climbed the ...

History always has intrigued me. It was only when I discovered just how much original research the discipline involved, much of it in foreign languages, that I changed my college major from history to ...

Purple splotches sprawling across the ceiling of a palace in southern Spain have puzzled art conservators for decades. Now, scientists searching for the splotches’ origin have finally struck gold, ...