- Subjects
- Published
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[Chantilly, VA] :
Teaching Company
[2017]
- Language
- English
- Corporate Authors
- ,
- Main Author
- Corporate Authors
- ,
- Edition
- [PDF workbook version]
- Item Description
- "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. - Physical Description
- 12 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 computer optical disc (digital, 4 3/4 in.)
- Format
- Compact disc; PDF requires Adobe Reader or PDF reader.
- ISBN
- 9781501960178
- 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.