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Thursday February 13, 2025 14:53
Continued from previous page, 14. Byzantium Abraham
![]() Abraham and his family traveling from Ur to Canaan
![]() Map of Abraham's travel from Ur to Canaan to Egypt
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![]() The Kaaba, Mecca
History of the Kaaba in Mecca
![]() The Black Stone of the Kaaba
![]() Ibn Battuta of Tangier, explorer, recounts his first pilgrimage to Mecca (1325 - 1326) ![]() Muhammad and Islam C. 570 - Birth in Mecca C. 610 - Revelation by Gabriel on Mount Hira C. 613 - Preaches to the public for the first time 622 - Hegira - moves to Medina 622 - 632 - Conquest of Arabia 632 - Death in Medina 636 - Conquest of Syria 642 - Conquest of Egypt 650 - Conquest of Persia 664 - Invasion of India 680 - Battle of Karbala and the Martydom of Hussain 697 - Conquest of Carthage 712 - Conquest of Spain 732 - Battle of Tours/Poitier - Muhammadan invasion of France defeated
Life of Prophet Mohammed
1. The Seeker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7LFLbpk8yc
2. Holy Wars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xkejHvAfd0
3. Holy Peace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLqdQ038Zr0
Prophet Muhammad's Biography
Episode from the documentary series Biography https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0qqxRRBdAA&feature=related Life of the Last Prophet & Messenger, Muhammad
Documentary film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unh5XfRWxo8&feature=related
Muhammad - Legacy of a Prophet
PBS Documentary
The Qur'an (Koran)
The Secrets of the Qur'an
Episode
from the documentary series Decoding the Past The Qur'an
Oldest Quran ever found has little similarity to modern version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_vq9_Wipic
Part 1. Prophet Muhammad and the Rise of Islam (or
in 3 clips) 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX3UHNhQ1Zk
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1PxJomypQE&feature=relmfu
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI7Qkcyz3tM&feature=relmfu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1PxJomypQE
Part 3. The Ottomans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI7Qkcyz3tM
All three parts in one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s59LfXGMyjY
Four lectures by Paul Freedman from the course Early Middle Ages, 284 -1000 A. D. (HIST 210), Fall 2011, at
# 14. Mohammed and the Arab Conquests
Yale U.:
http://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-210/lecture-14
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXF7RkgANNo
Transcript:
http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/1238/hist-210
# 15. Islamic Conquests and Civil War
1. Introduction:
apparent paradoxes of Islamic Conquest Yale U.:
http://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-210/lecture-15#transcript
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuRtuYgekuE
Transcript:
http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/1239/hist-210
# 16. The Splendor of the Abbasid Period
Yale U.:
http://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-210/lecture-16
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji8kKMSLEQo
Transcript:
http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/1240/hist-210
# 17. The Crucial Seventh Century
1.
Geography and medicine under the Abbasids Yale U.:
http://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-210/lecture-17
You Tube:
The Message - The Story of Islam
1977 Hollywood movie with Anthony Quinn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogv_dn3M840
The Rise and Flourishing of Islam Lecture by Gregory Aldrete, # 45 of History of the Ancient World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZqK_2dKLEw (Removed from You Tube)
Chapter from the History of Western Philosophy (1949) by Bertrand Russell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDDl1ljHWLA
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Byzantium
![]() ![]() Black Sea (at top), Sea of Marmara (at bottom)
The
Splendor of Byzantium
Lecture
# 18 by
Paul Freedman from The Early Middle Ages, 284 -1000 A. D., Yale U., Fall 2011
Four
phases of the Byzantine Empire:
1. Justinian's expansion of the empire
(532 - 565)
2.
Contraction of the empire (565 - 717)
3.
Reconstruction of the empire; Iconoclasm (717 - 843)
4.
Expansion of the Empire; Golden Age of the Byzantine Empire (843 - 1071)
You Tube:
Yale U.:
Transcript:
![]() Map
shows the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire. Justinian the Great reconquered the West.
First
Arab (Umayyad) Siege of Constantinople (674 - 678)
![]() Second Arab (Umayyad)
Siege of Constantinople (717 -
718)
![]() Ummayad expansion
(661 - 750)
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Battle of Tours - Muslim Conquest checked, 732
Charles Martel 686 – 741 Charles Martel vanquishes Umayyads at the Battle of Tours, 732 (portrait by de Steuben)
Charles Martel expliqué aux enfants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2IkqeyRHi4&feature=related
Excerpt from Dark Ages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvSbBEoBePg&feature=related
Batalla de Poitiers (Tours) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXfXeo_9jBI&feature=related
The Battle of Tours Discussion of the weekly BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg 16 January 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmpr6w9S4Ug
The Battle of Talas
In 751 the Abbasids and the Chinese fought a battle in Central Asia that checked
the Arab Conquest to the east and the spread of the Chinese to the west.
Discussion on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted
by Melvyn Bragg
With guests Hilde de Weerdt, Michael
Höckelmann and Hugh Kennedy
9 October 2014
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Islam and Science
Science and Islam
3-part BBC documentary series with Jim Al-Khalili
A history of science in medieval Islamic civilization (800s - 1100s)
Part 1: The Language of Science
Part 2: The Empire of Reason
Part 3: The Power of Doubt
or all three parts in one:
Maths in the Early Islamic World
Discussion on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time
hosted by Melvyn Bragg
With guests Colva Roney-Dougal, Peter Pormann and Jim Al-Khalili
16 February 2017
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