Thank You for the ping. I wish I knew the history of the Middle East and Africa. Your pings help to teach me and I am grateful for your pings.
There is lots of history of the Middle East and Islam on the web. All you have to do is go to www.jihadwatch.com. Start reading and sampling the links on the right hand side of the page. Those links go on to other anti-jihadi pages which in turn have links to still other pages. There are hundreds of websites about Islam.