An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets of praise on a book jacket, are all they’re cracked up to be.

HEALING WITH ANIMALS Islamic medicine had some roots in folk remedies that used animals’ organs. Many manuscripts drew on these traditions, such as Book on the Usefulness of Animals by the 14th ...

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Latecomers are seated at the discretion of management. The Book of Mormon follows two young missionaries who are sent to Uganda to try to convert citizens to the Mormon religion. One missionary ...

Islam is the third religion practiced in US. More than 3 million Muslims live in US. More than 2,769 mosques are constructed in US in 2024. The largest mosque is located in Dearborn, Michigan. Muslims ...

Today Islamic date in India is calculated as per the lunar-based calendar which consists of 12 Lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days. A Muslim must know about the exact Islamic date today or chand ...

Ancient Christian writers confirm this reconstruction. In The Apostolic Constitutions, Book V, Section III, it says that the Last Supper occurred on the fifth day of the week (Thursday), that ...

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Two new books, “The Sirens’ Call” by Hayes and “Superbloom” by Carr, argue that our capacity for attention and connection has been devastated by the digital age “Elita” is a novel ...

Gripping tale of the lines on which espionage meets the Vatican's priests. The Daily Mail Books department chooses their favourite fiction of the century. When 50 American hostages were released ...

"Real Time" host Bill Maher called out the left's hesitancy to criticize China, declaring the foreign adversary as "the new Islam" in political discourse. During Friday night's panel discussion ...