| Edition |
[PDF workbook version]. |
| Description |
12 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 CD-ROM (PDF, digital, 4 3/4 in.) |
| Series |
Great courses. History. Civilization & culture |
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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| Performer |
Lecturer: Professorial Lecturer Eamonn Gearon, Johns Hopkins University. |
| Note |
Course no. 3863. |
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The length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min. The entire program consists of 24 lectures. |
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Accompanying PDF contains course workbook in CD-ROM format. |
| System Details |
PDF requires Adobe Reader or PDF reader. |
| Note |
Compact discs. |
| Contents |
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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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. |
| Summary |
Meet the people and explore the achievements of the Islamic Goldgen Age, a powerful 500-year history of science, culture, philosophy, and more. |
| Subject |
Islamic Empire -- History.
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Islam -- History.
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Islamic civilization.
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Islam. (OCoLC)fst00979776
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Islamic civilization. (OCoLC)fst01730294
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Islamic Empire. (OCoLC)fst01244134
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| Genre/Form |
Lectures.
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Audiobooks.
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Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Lectures. (OCoLC)fst01919935
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company, production company.
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Recorded Books, LLC. distributor.
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| ISBN |
9781501960178 |
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1501960172 |
| Music No. |
GC1065 Recorded Books |
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3863 Teaching Company |
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