For over 600 years carpets from Turkey and Iran have been used in Catholic ceremony and religious paintings by artists, ...

It was the first major debasement-induced rebellion in the Empire, and for the Ottomans, it was pretty much a long downhill road from there. It all started with a war, when the Ottomans stupidly ...

The invasion of Nadir Shah would be the Mughal Empire’s greatest threat to yet. Nadir Shah, a military genius known as the “Napoleon of Persia,” deposed Iran’s reigning Safavid dynasty and assumed ...

International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of ...