The history and achievements of the Islamic Golden Age
DVD - 2017
Meet the people and explore the achievements of the Islamic Goldgen Age, a powerful 500-year history of science, culture, philosophy, and more.
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- Published
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[Chantilly, Va.] :
Teaching Company
[2017]
- Language
- English
- Corporate Authors
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- Main Author
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- Edition
- [PDF workbook version]
- Item Description
- "The Great courses, Topic: History ; Subtopic: Civilization & culture"--Cover.
"Course number 3863"--Disc labels.
24 lectures lasting 30 minutes each.
Accompanying CD-ROM contains course workbook in PDF format. - Physical Description
- 4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 computer disc (4 3/4 in.)
- Format
- Compact disc; PDF requires Adobe Reader or PDF reader.
- ISBN
- 9781501960161
- Disc 1. From camels to stars in the Middle East
- Ibn Battuta's search for knowledge
- Arabian nights caliph: Harun al-Rashid
- The Arab world's greatest writer: al-Jahiz
- Algebra, algorithms, and al-Khwarizmi
- Baghdad's House of Wisdom
- Disc 2. Muhammad, the Hadith, and Imam Bukhari
- Interpreting and defending the Quran
- The Arab Herodotus: al-Masudi
- Cairo, al-Haytham, and the Book of optics
- Master Muslim scholar: al-Biruni
- Astronomy in the Islamic Golden Age
- Disc 3. Medieval Muslim medicine and hospitals
- Alchemistry and chemistry in early Baghdad
- The Fertile Crescent, water, and al-Jazari
- Jewish scholar in Cairo: Moses Maimonides
- The Banu Musa's inventions and automatons
- Mosques, architecture, and Gothic revival
- Disc 4. Arabic verse, love poetry, and wine songs
- Medieval mastermind: Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
- Entertaining in the time of the Abbasids
- Calligraphy, carpets, and the Arabic arts
- When did the Islamic Golden Age end?
- Ibn Khaldun on the rise and fall of Empire.