For the truth about Byzantium, see Empire of God: How the Byzantines Saved Civilization. “Islamesque: The Forgotten Craftsmen Who Built Europe’s Medieval Monuments, by Diana Darke, London: Hurst & Company, 2024. 480 pp., $29.99,” Reviewed by Robert Spencer, Middle East Forum, Summer 2025: Darke, a former BBC broadcaster now living in Damascus, contributes to the […]