Great courses (Compact disc)

Title from container

"Course no. 3863."

In two containers (19 cm)

24 lectures (30 min. each)

Compact discs

Unabridged

Lecturer: Professorial Lecturer Eamonn Gearon, Johns Hopkins University

Disc 1.

From camels to stars in the Middle East -- Ibn Battuta's search for knowledge --

Disc 2.

Arabian nights caliph: Harun al-Rashid -- 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.

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.

Fertile Crescent, water, and al-Jazari -- Jewish scholar in Cairo: Moses Maimonides --

Disc 9.

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