Image source: RareOld Maps of The Middle East, by Grace Galleries of Harpswell ... This “curious map of the Near East” isparticularly interesting because of its religious imagery. The illustration at ...

Islam would be more than seven centuries in the future. The peoples of the Silk Road in its early decades followed many different religions. In the Middle East, many people worshiped the gods and ...

They carved up the Middle East map with the stroke of a pen ... out of the remains of the defunct Ottoman Empire. Ethnic, religious and topographical considerations were ignored or minimized.

1 in Religious Saudi Arabia is the giant of the Middle East, with both the vast majority of land and wealth of the Arabian Peninsula falling within its borders. Millions of devout Muslims from ...