Sparks Commentary

“♪ We’re the D-Day Dodgers, out in Italy, Always on the vino, always on the spree. Eighth Army skivers and their tanks, We go to war in ties...

During the Middle Ages , the  Muslim world  helped to keep  Greek philosophy  alive. In the wake of the Roman Empire’s fall in the fifth cen...

“ Allah—there is no god ˹worthy of worship˺ except Him . He has the Most Beautiful Names.” – English translation of The Quran, Surah 20:8 Is...

Long before the  Panama Canal  was built, the Suez Canal was opened in 1869. This is the same year that America ’s  Transcontinental Railroa...

The Arab Revolt against the rule of the Ottoman Turks … When people hear the phrase  “World War One,”  they usually think of Europe . But it...

“ Muḥammad is the Messenger of Allah . And those with him are firm with the disbelievers and compassionate with one another.” – English tran...

“ ˹He is˺ Allah! There is no god ˹worthy of worship˺ except Him , the Lord of the Mighty Throne.” – English translation of  The Quran, Surah...

The Early Middle Ages are today remembered as the  “Dark Ages.”  The art historian Kenneth Clark made this argument in his landmark docum...

“Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city : for henceforth there shall no more...

“ We the people of Indonesia hereby declare the independence of Indonesia . Matters which concern the transfer of power and other things w...

During the Reagan administration, we were allied with both Iraq and Afghanistan … In the  Ronald Reagan  era, America had two allies th...

To say that the relationship between  Islam  and  the West  is sometimes troubled would be something of an understatement. Since the  rise...

“[There shall be a] Surrender in good condition by the German armies of the following war material: Five thousand guns (2,500 heavy, and ...

“We hope that this book, which knows how to say the important and say it well, contributes to spread linguistic knowledge that usually re...

If there's ever been a peaceful period in Muslim history, the Cold War was not that period … If there's ever been a peaceful per...

“The High Contracting Parties do by the present Charter establish an Organization to be known as the ORGANIZATION OF AFRICAN UNITY . The O...

“I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture … ‘ And I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. ’ I suppose we all thought that, one w...

"As from the fifteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, two independent Dominions shall be set up in India , to be kn...