The House is Black

Selected Articles

• Sunni – Shia Divide in Plain Language!

  How do they differ? Politics, competition, influence and power fuel the current sectarian tensions between Shia and Sunni Muslims, the two largest branches of ...

  
  
• Persian Language in the Court of Ottomans

  Persian Language in the Courts of Seljuks and Ottomans During the second half of 11th century, two historical events made significant impacts on both Christ...

  
  
• “Until we leave this plain of sin and pride…” Attar’s Conference of the Birds

  Farid-ad-Din Muhammad Attar (1145-1220) is one of the three pillars of Persian Sufi literature. Sana’i Ghaznavi, who for the first time, exerted love poetry to ...