The history and achievements of the Islamic Golden Age
By: Professor Eamonn Gearon
Contributors: Teaching Company
Series: Great courses. History. Civilization & culture; Great courses (DVD)
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 12
ISBN-13: 9781629973739
Subjects: Islamic civilization; Islam; History
Other titles: Islamic Golden Age
Description: Meet the people and explore the achievements of the Islamic Golden Age, a powerful 500-year story of science, culture, philosophy, and more.
Notes: Title from container.

Course No. 3863.

24 lectures (30 min. each).

Lecturer: Professor Eamonn Gearon, Johns Hopkins University.

DVD.

In English; closed-captioned.
Table of contents: title: disc 1:; title: From camels to stars in the Middle East --; title: Ibn Battuta's search for knowledge --; title: Arabian nights caliph: Harun al-Rashid --; title: The Arab world's greatest writer: al-Jahiz --; title: Algebra, algorithms, and al-Khwarizmi --; title: Baghdad's House of Wisdom -- -- disc 2:; title: Muhammad, the Hadith, and Imam Bukhari --; title: Interpreting and defending the Quran --; title: The Arab Herodotus: al-Masudi --; title: Cairo, al-Haytham, and the Book of optics --; title: Master Muslim scholar: al-Biruni --; title: Astronomy in the Islamic Golden Age -- -- disc 3:; title: Medieval Muslim medicine and hospitals --; title: Alchemistry and chemistry in early Baghdad --; title: The Fertile Crescent, water, and al-Jazari --; title: Jewish scholar in Cairo: Moses Maimonides --; title: The Banu Musa's inventions and automatons --; title: Mosques, architecture, and Gothic revival -- -- disc 4:; title: Arabic verse, love poetry, and wine songs --; title: Medieval mastermind: Avicenna (Ibn Sina) --; title: Entertaining in the time of the Abbasids --; title: Calligraphy, carpets, and the Arabic arts --; title: When did the Islamic Golden Age end? --; title: Ibn Khaldun on the rise and fall of Empire.