On November 20, 1979, worldwide attention was focused on Tehran, where the Iranian hostage crisis was entering its third week. The same morning-the first of a new Muslim century-hundreds of gunmen stunned the world by seizing Islam's holiest shrine, the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Armed with rifles that they had smuggled inside coffins, these men came from more than a dozen countries, launching the first operation of global jihad in modern times. Led by...

Meet the people and explore the achievements of the Islamic Goldgen Age, a powerful 500-year history of science, culture, philosophy, and more.

Explores the Muslim religion world wide, along with a brief history of its origins.