"The Great courses, Topic: History ; Subtopic: Civilization & culture"--Cover. "Course no. 3863"--Disc labels. 24 lectures lasting 30 minutes each. Accompanying CD-ROM contains course workbook in PDF format. Lecturer: Professorial Lecturer Eamonn Gearon, Johns Hopkins University.
Contents:
Disc 1. From camels to stars in the Middle East -- Ibn Battuta's search for knowledge -- Disc 2. Arabian nights caliph: Harun al-Rashid -- The Arab world's greatest writer: al-Jahiz -- Disc 3. Algebra, algorithms, and al-Khwarizmi -- Baghdad's House of Wisdom -- Disc 4. Muhammad, the Hadith, and Imam Bukhari -- Interpreting and defending the Quran -- Disc 5. The Arab Herodotus: al-Masudi -- Cairo, al-Haytham, and the Book of optics -- Disc 6. Master Muslim scholar: al-Biruni -- Astronomy in the Islamic Golden Age -- Disc 7. Medieval Muslim medicine and hospitals -- Alchemistry and chemistry in early Baghdad -- Disc 8. The Fertile Crescent, water, and al-Jazari -- Jewish scholar in Cairo: Moses Maimonides -- Disc 9. The Banu Musa's inventions and automatons -- Mosques, architecture, and Gothic revival -- Disc 10. Arabic verse, love poetry, and wine songs -- Medieval mastermind: Avicenna (Ibn Sina) -- Disc 11. Entertaining in the time of the Abbasids -- Calligraphy, carpets, and the Arabic arts -- Disc 12. When did the Islamic Golden Age end? -- Ibn Khaldun on the rise and fall of Empire.
Summary:
Meet the people and explore the achievements of the Islamic Goldgen Age, a powerful 500-year history of science, culture, philosophy, and more.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.