â â â â â  bashar b. burd's atheism: reality or politics? â  â seyyed mohammad javad moosavi bafrooi * â  â abstract â many historical events demand more reflection. one of such cases is bashshar b. burd about whom there are different opinions. some people believe that he was killed because of the accusation of being atheist. however, because of the following reasons, it seems that such a ...

After the fall of the Roman Empire in AD 476, scientific progress in Europe had come to a standstill. This era between fall of Rome and the Renaissance is commonly known as the dark ages. However, from the 8th till 13th century, scientific and cultural knowledge had flourished in the Islamic world. This period, which began soon after the establishment of the Abbasid Khalifate in Baghdad in the ...

The Chronicle of Theophanes the Confessor is one few Byzantine historiographical works in which so much space devoted to Islamic world and first ruling caliphate. Of course, most references Muslims concern mostly military issues – numerous Muslim invasions on lands that were happening almost since beginning Islam. Also important was way treated Islam itself as a religion heresy. Therefore, it h...