A Viking-age woven band of silk displays patterns in silver thread discovered to be Arabic script Annika Larsson/ Uppsala University Editor's note, October 16, 2017: Stephennie Mulder, an associate ...

Islamic art historians and archaeologists are calling into question a Swedish medieval textile expert’s claim that the word “Allah” has been found on a 10th century Viking funeral garment discovered ...

A researcher at a Swedish university says that Viking burial clothes bear the word “Allah”—and some people really want to believe her. But other experts are not sure the silk bears Arabic script at ...

Politics begins with the way we use words, George Orwell reminded us. At a precarious moment for relations between Muslims and their others it is important to recall that Allah is not the name of the ...