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Arculf and Jerusalem: A Snapshot of the Arab Empire Before Islam

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 August 2026

This entry was posted in History of Islam and tagged Abbasids, Abd al-Malik, Abraham, Adomnan, Ahl al-Kitab, apocalyptic, Arab Empire, Arculf, Bible, Britain, Byzantium, Christ, Christianity, Christians, churches, Constantinople, De Locis Sanctis, Dome of the Rock, foederati, Ghassanid Kingdom, Greeks, Hadith, Hagar, Hagarenes, Hijaz, Ishmael, Ishmaelism, Ishmaelites, Islam, Islamic Tradition, Jacob of Edessa, Jerusalem, Jesus, John Wansbrough, Judaism, Maghazi, masjid, Mecca, Millat Ibrahim, monotheism, Muawiya, orationis domus, Patricia Crone, Persian Empire, Prophet Muhammad, Qur'an, Rashidun Caliph, Revisionist School of Islamic Studies, Roman Empire, Saracens, Second Temple, sectarian milieu, Sira, Solomon's Temple, Temple Mount, Umar ibn al-Khattab, Umayyads, Willibald on August 16, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Wants to Extend its War Against Christians in Africa to Europe

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 August 2025

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Africa, Al-Andalus, al-Naba, al-wala wal-bara, Antisemitism, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Burkina Faso, Cabo Delgado, Christianity, Christians, Crusades, democracy, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Europe, Former Mandate Palestine, France, Iberia, ideology, IEDs, ISCAP, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamic State Central African Province, Islamic State West Africa Province, Islamists, Israel, ISWAP, Jesus, jihadism, jihadists, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, media, messaging, Mozambique, Muslim Spain, Niger, Nigeria, PKK, Portugal, propaganda, Qur’an, religion, Saudi Arabia, SDF, sectarianism, shari’a, Spain, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, terrorism, United States, Wilayat al-Sahel, Wilayat al-Sham, Wilayat Gharb Ifriqiya, Wilayat Mozambique, Wilayat Wasat Ifriqiya on August 14, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Review: “The Sacred City” (2016)

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 June 2025

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This entry was posted in Film Review, History of Islam and tagged Abbasid Revolution, Abbasids, Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, Abd al-Malik, Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr, Abu al-Faraj, Adur Gushnasp, Aeneid, al-Bayt al-Haram, al-Masjid al-Haram, Al-Muwahhidun, Al-Qifti, Al-Tabari, Almohads, Amr ibn al-As, Arab Empire, Bakka, Banu Qurayza, Battle of Yamama, Becca, Bible, Christianity, Christians, Constantine the Great, Dan Gibson, Emperor Constantine, Fatimid Caliphate, Fatimids, Gethsemane, Golgotha, Gregory Bar Hebraeus, Hadith, Hebrew Bible, Hijaz, Holy Land, Iberia, Ioudaismos, Ishmaelites, ISIS, Islam, Islamic extremism, Islamic history, Islamic State, Islamic Tradition, Ismailis, Israel, Jerusalem, Jesus, Jews, Kaaba, ka’ba, Khalid ibn al-Walid, Kufa, Library of Alexandria, Livy, Mecca, Medina, Millat Ibrahim, Minha, Mongols, monotheism, myth, Ottoman Empire, pagan temples, paganism, pagans, Petra, Prophet Muhammad, Qibla, Qur’an, Rashidun Caliph, Revisionist School of Islamic Studies, Ridda Wars, Romulus and Remus, Sacred House, Sacred Place of Prostration, Saint Paul, Saladin, Saudi Arabia, Second Fitna, Spain, Syriac Orthodox Church, Tanakh, Tarikh al-Hukama, The Sacred City, Umar I, Umar ibn al-Khattab, Umayyad Caliphate, Umayyads, Virgil, Wahhabis, Wahhabism, Zoroastrianism, Zoroastrians on June 26, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Salem Witch Trials, Part One: Massachusetts on the Eve of the Panic

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 January 2025

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Act of Uniformity, Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, Anabaptism, Antichrist, Archbishop William Laud, assassinations, Austria, Aztecs, Baptists, Bible, Boston, Brazil, cannibalism, Catholicism, Charles I, Charles II, Charles V, Chosen People, Christianity, Christians, Church of England, Commonwealth, Declaration of Indulgence, Devil, Diet of Worms, Dutch Republic, Edmund Andros, Edward Whalley, Elizabeth I, English Civil Wars, Fifth Monarchists, Fifth Monarchy Men, Florida, Francis Higginson, germ theory, Glorious Revolution, Good Old Cause, Great Migration, Habsburgs, Henry Bouquet, High Church, Holy Ghost, Holy Roman Empire, Holy Spirit, Hugh Peter, Huguenots, human sacrifice, Incas, Increase Mather, Intelligence, Interregnum, Ireland, Israel, James I, James II, Jamestown, Jean Ribault at Charlesfort, Jeffery Amherst, Jesus, Johann Cochlaeus, John Endecott, John Winthrop, King James Bible, King Philip, King Philip’s War, Leif Erikson, liberalism, Lost Colony, Louis XIV, Mammon, Marcus Antonius Plencic, Martin Luther, Mary I, Mary II, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Mayflower, Metacom, Naumkeag, Navigation Acts, Netherlands, New World, Newfoundland, Nine Years’ War, Nonconformism, Nonconformists, Norsemen, Nova Scotia, Oliver Cromwell, paganism, pagans, Personal Rule, Philip II, Pilgrim Fathers, Plymouth Colony, Pope, popery, Popish Plot, pox blanket, Protectorate, Protestant Reformation, Protestantism, Protestants, Province of Massachusetts Bay, Puritans, Quakers, Raid on the Medway, Regicides, religious wars, René Goulaine de Laudonnière, Rhode Island, Roanoke Island, Roger Williams, Roman Catholic Church, Royal Charter, Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, Salem, Salem witch trials, Samuel Parris, Satan, Secret Treaty of Dover, sectarianism, Sir George Downing, Sir Henry Vane, Sir William Phips, smallpox blanket, sola scriptura, Spain, Spanish Armada, Sun King, Test Act, The Book of Common Prayer, Thirty Years’ War, Thomas Venner, Titus Oates, Vikings, Virgin Mary, Wars of the Three Kingdoms, Whigs, William Goffe, William III, William of Orange, William Trent, Williamite War, witch panic, witchcraft, witches on January 25, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Jewish Influence At the Origins of Islam

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 November 2024

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This entry was posted in History, History of Islam and tagged Abbasid Revolution, Abbasids, Abd al-Malik, Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr, Abraham, al-Hajar al-Aswad, al-Masjid al-Haram, Arab Empire, Arabs, Babylonian Talmud, Bayt al-Haram, Bible, Black Stone, Christianity, Christians, Commander of the Believers, Commander of the Faithful, Constantine the Great, Constitution of Medina, Doctrina Jacobi, Eusebius, Fred Donner, G.J. Reinink, Gethsemane, Golgotha, Hadith, Hagar, Hagarenes, Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World, hajj, Haramayn, Ibn al-Zubayr, India, Ioudaismos, Ishmael, Ishmaelites, Islamic Tradition, isra, Israel, jahiliya, Jerusalem, Jesus, Jewish, Jewish Temple, Jews, John of Sedreh, John Wansbrough, Justinian, Kaaba, ka’ba, Land of Israel, Letter of John of Sedreh, Libya, Mecca, Medina, Mesopotamia, Mhaggraye, mi’raj, Michael Cook, Michael Penn, monotheism, Moses, Muawiya, mushrikun, Muslims, Noah, paganism, pagans, Patricia Crone, Pentateuch, Persian Empire, Persians, plague, Promised Land, Prophet Ibrahim, Prophet Muhammad, Qibla, Qurayshi, Qur’an, Roman Empire, Romans, Sahih al-Bukhari, Sassanids, Sebeos, sectarian milieu, Simon ben Yohai, Sunna, Syria, Syria Palaestina, Tachkastan, Tanakh, Teaching of Jacob, Temple Mount, The Letter of John of Sedreh, The Secrets of Rabbi Simon ben Yohai, Torah, True Cross, Umar I, Umar ibn Khattab, Umayr ibn Sa’d al-Ansari, Virgin Mary, Yathrib on November 28, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Assessing the Early-Codification Theory of the Qur’an

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 19 November 2024

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This entry was posted in History, History of Islam and tagged Abbasids, Abu Bakr, ahruf, Angelika Neuwirth, Arabs, Battle of Yamama, Birmingham Qur’an, Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Caliph Uthman, canon, Christianity, Christians, church, Church Fathers, Dead Sea Scrolls, Gabriel Said Reynolds, Gerd Puin, gnostic gospels, Gospel of Basilides, Great Mosque of Sanaa, hafiz, Himyar Kingdom, Hippolytus, Irenaeus, Ishmaelites, Islam, Jesus, Jews, John Burton, John Wansbrough, Judaism, Origen, Persia, Prophet Muhammad, Qur’an, sahaba, Sanaa palimpsest, Sanaa Qur’an, Ur-Qur’an, Yemen, Zayd ibn Thabit on November 19, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s Wife Sentenced to Death

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 6 October 2024

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This entry was posted in Iraq, Jihadi Biographies and tagged Abd al-Nasir Qardash, Abd al-Rahman al-Qaduli, Abu Abdallah al-Zuba’i, Abu Abdallah al-Zubai, Abu Abdullah al-Zuba’i, Abu Abdullah al-Zubai, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Abu Bakr al-Iraqi, Abu Ghraib, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Muhammad al-Furqan, Abu Omar al-Shishani, Abu Umar al-Shishani, Aisha Qatmawi, Al-Arabiya, al-Hashd al-Shabi, Al-Hawl, Al-Hol, al-Jazeera, al-Qaeda, Aramaic, Asma Fawzi Mohammed al-Qubaysi, Asma Mohammed, Ba’athism, Ba’athists, BBC, Camp Speicher, Chechnya, Daesh, Fallah Ismail Jassem, Geneva Conventions, genocide, Greek Orthodox Christianity, Haji Bakr, Hisham Mohammad, Hudayfa al-Badri, Ibrahim al-Badri, Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri, ideology, Iran, Iraq, Iraqi insurgency, IRGC, ISIS, Islam, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Isra Rajab Mahal al-Qaysi, Izzat al-Douri, Izzat al-Duri, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jamaat Tawhid wal-Jihad, Jaysh Ahl al-Sunna wal-Jamaa, Jaysh Ahl al-Sunna wal-Jama’a, Jaysh Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jama’a, Jaysh al-Rashideen, Jesus, jihadism, Kamal Khalaf, Kayla Mueller, Maaloula, Malula, Mansour, Muath al-Kasasbeh, Muslim Brotherhood, Nohad Machnouk, Nour Ibrahim al-Zuba’i, Nour Ibrahim al-Zubai, Omaima, PMF, Popular Mobilization Forces, Qur’an, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Saja al-Dulaimi, Salafism, Samir al-Khlifawi, sectarianism, Seda Dudarkaeva, Shi’a militias, Siban Khalil, slavery, Special Groups, Syria, Taha Falaha, Tarkhan Batirashvili, terrorism, Terrorism in the Grip of Justice, Turkey, Umaima, Umm Hudaifa, Umm Hudayfa, Wael al-Ta’i, Wolf Brigade, Yazidi genocide, Yazidis on October 6, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Introduces the Fifth “Caliph”

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 22 August 2023

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This entry was posted in Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari Speeches, Jihadi Output and tagged Abbasids, Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Iraqi, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu al-Husayn al-Husayni al-Qurayshi, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Abu Hafs al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, Abu Hudaifa al-Ansari, Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Muhammad al-Furqan, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu Omar al-Muhajir, Abu Sulayman al-Shami, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, Abu Umar al-Muhajir, Afghanistan, Africa, Afrin, Ahmad Abousamra, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, al-Furqan Media, Al-Injeel, Al-Injil, al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda in Iraq, al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Amir Muhammad al-Mawla, AQAP, assassination, Battle of Fallujah, Bible, blasphemy, Christianity, Christians, Dawud, deen, Deraa, din, Efrin, elections, Fallujah, Gospels, HAMAS, Hamid al-Zawi, Hassan al-Utaybi, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hazimis, Hazimiyya, Hebrew Prophets, HTS, human rights, Ibrahim al-Badri, Ioudaismos, Isa, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamism, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jamaat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jews, jihadism, Judaism, King David, MIT, Moses, Mother of the Book, mukhabarat, Musa, National Intelligence Organization, New Testament, Nour Karim al-Matni, Nur Karim al-Matni, Old Testament, Omar Hadid, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Pentateuch, prisons, propaganda, Prophet Muhammad, Psalms, Qur’an, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Romans, Saudi Arabia, scripture, SNA, Syria, Syrian National Army, Taha Falaha, Tawrah, terrorism, Torah, Turkey, Umar Hadid, Umm al-Kitab, Usama bin Laden, Wael al-Ta’i, Zabur on August 22, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Instructs Other Islamists How To Do Jihad

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 5 June 2023

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Afghanistan, Africa, al-Naba, al-Qaeda, deen, Democratic Republic of the Congo, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamism, Jesus, jihad, Mecca, Medina, Mozambique, nationalism, Pakistan, Prophet Muhammad on June 5, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Spokesman Counters “Accusations” Against the Group and Explains its Purpose in Syria

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 September 2022

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This entry was posted in Abu Muhammad al-Adnani Speeches, Jihadi Output and tagged Abd al-Munim al-Badawi, Abdul Munim al-Badawi, Abu Ghraib prison break, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, Al-Andalus, al-Furqan Media, al-Qaeda, Al-Salul, Alawis, assassination, Bashar al-Assad, bay'a, bida, BREAKING THE WALLS, Breaking the Walls campaign, caliphate, Christians, Dajjal, dawa, disinformation, dunya, fasad, Fursan al-Balagh Media, Hamid al-Zawi, Hamid Dawud Muhammad Khalil al-Zawi, Harvest of the Soldiers campaign, Heaven, Hell, idolaters, iman, insurgency, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Islamism, Issa, Jahannam, Jerusalem, Jesus, Jews, jihad, Jinnah, monotheism, Moses, mujahideen, Musa, mushrikeen, Muslims, muwahideen, nationalism, Nusayris, Operation BREAKING THE WALLS, pagans, polytheists, Qatar, Rome, Saudi Arabia, sectarianism, secularism, Soldiers' Harvest campaign, Sunnis, Syria, Taha Subhi Falaha, terrorism, They Shall By No Means Harm You But With a Slight Evil, They Will Not Harm You Except for Some Annoyance on September 3, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

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