The History and Achievements of the Islamic Golden Age. Episode 6, Baghdad's House of Wisdom.
Material type: FilmPublisher number: 6756999 | KanopyPublisher: The Great Courses, 2017Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (29 minutes): digital, .flv file, soundContent type:- two-dimensional moving image
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Eamonn Gearon
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2017.
During the Abbasid Empire, Baghdad's House of Wisdom was the world's preeminent center for translation and original research. Find out why translation flourished in this era, and meet two of the Golden Age's most important translators: Hunayan Ibn Ishaq and al-Kindi. Then consider the intellectual legacy of the Arabic translation movement.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
In English