15. Islam

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

BBC documentary film (3 hours)

The Life of Muhammad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1JiM8Y7l8o

or in three parts:

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

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4EL8RVDD_c&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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAyansvqlSY

The Qur'an (Koran)

The Secrets of the Qur'an

Episode from the documentary series Decoding the Past

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Bw9JLuNXyE

The Qur'an

Oldest Quran ever found has little similarity to modern version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_vq9_Wipic

Islam: Empire of Faith

2000 PBS documentary series in three parts narrated by Ben Kingsley

Part 1. Prophet Muhammad and the Rise of Islam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX3UHNhQ1Zk&feature=related

(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

Part 2. The Awakening

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

Early Middle Ages

Four lectures by Paul Freedman from the course Early Middle Ages, 284 -1000 A. D. (HIST 210), Fall 2011, at Yale U., New Haven, Connecticut

# 14. Mohammed and the Arab Conquests

1. Islam and its Arabian context
2. Bedouin tribes
3. Mohammed

4. Mohammed in Medina and the differentiation of Islam
5. The Tenets of Islam

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
2. Mohammed's Successors and the beginnings of conquest
3. Factors favoring Arab Conquest
4. Arab Conquests
5. Internal divisions

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

1. The Rise of the Abbasids
2. Cultural flowering
3. Assimilation of conquered peoples and ideas
4. Mathematics

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
2. The collapse of the Abbasid Caliphate
3. The importance of the seventh century
4. The seventh century as a turning point
5. Pirenne Thesis and Conclusion

Yale U.:

http://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-210/lecture-17

You Tube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afmnB0o8-jI

Transcript:

http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/1241/hist-210

The Message - The Story of Islam

1977 Hollywood movie with Anthony Quinn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi2AtEKsdUU

The Making of an Epic

Documentary film about the making of the movie The Message

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)

Mohammedan Culture and Philosophy

Chapter from the History of Western Philosophy (1949) by Bertrand Russell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDDl1ljHWLA

How Islam Began

Lecture by Fred Donner

U. of Chicago

2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RFK5u5lkhA

The Caliph

Three-part Al Jazeera documentary

1. Foundation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3O9d7PsI48

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heCsl7_iqq8

2. Division

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuplOE5JB4M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq5O8i4_Jis

3. Decline

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXXSo7WzZsk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmHRHk1-m2E

The Arab Conquests

Discussion on the BBC weekly Thursday radio programme In Our Time josted by Melvyn Bragg

With guests Hugh Kennedy, Amira Bennison and Robert Hoyland

26 June 2008

BBC:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00c5xzc

https://www.twine.fm/SaiyanTanaka/cmr7s0/bbc-radio-4-in-our-time-2008-the-arab-conquests

You Tube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3457zLYJscg

Islamic Law and its Origins

Discussion on the BBC weekly Thursday radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg

5 May 2011

With guests Hugh Kennedy, Robert Gleave and Mona Siddiqui

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010t69b

Sunni and Shia Islam

Discussion on the BBC weekly Thursday radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg

With guests Amira Bennison, Robert Gleave and Hugh Kennedy

25 June 2009

BBC:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00l5mhl

You Tube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WxYvixnyk8


				*Oliver's Site* *15. Islam*



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		*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 Abraham: One Man, One God Documentary film from the series Mysteries of the Bible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuNB4EeoKi8 Or in 4 clips: 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5zQ7NCK0Dg 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LT_ZoU_lqk 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ChQlSlP0so 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-WSZJjjCMs Abraham dismisses Hagar and Ishmael painting by Guernico Ibrahim (Abraham) Children of Abraham Remembering the Shared Traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam Lecture by Robert Baum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLxVUA1MaXY Hagar in the Wilderness by Camille Corot (1796 –1875) (1835) ----- The Kaaba, Mecca History of the Kaaba in Mecca https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSLGvDzJ8NY The Black Stone of the Kaaba JOURNEY TO MECCA National Geographic documentary Ibn Battuta of Tangier, explorer, recounts his first pilgrimage to Mecca (1325 - 1326) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-xC_QmBw9s The Hajj Pilgrimage to the Kaaba History Channel documentary about the pilgrimmage to Mecca https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALcm54f0hNc 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* BBC documentary film (3 hours) *The Life of Muhammad* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1JiM8Y7l8o or in three parts: 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 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4EL8RVDD_c&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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAyansvqlSY The Qur'an (Koran) *The Secrets of the Qur'an* Episode from the documentary series Decoding the Past https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Bw9JLuNXyE The Qur'an Oldest Quran ever found has little similarity to modern version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_vq9_Wipic *Islam: Empire of Faith* 2000 PBS documentary series in three parts narrated by Ben Kingsley Part 1. *Prophet Muhammad and the Rise of Islam* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX3UHNhQ1Zk&feature=related (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 Part 2. The Awakening 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 *Early Middle Ages* Four lectures by Paul Freedman from the course Early Middle Ages, 284 -1000 A. D. (HIST 210), Fall 2011, at Yale U., New Haven, Connecticut # 14. Mohammed and the Arab Conquests 1. Islam and its Arabian context 2. Bedouin tribes 3. Mohammed 4. Mohammed in Medina and the differentiation of Islam 5. The Tenets of Islam 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 2. Mohammed's Successors and the beginnings of conquest 3. Factors favoring Arab Conquest 4. Arab Conquests 5. Internal divisions 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 1. The Rise of the Abbasids 2. Cultural flowering 3. Assimilation of conquered peoples and ideas 4. Mathematics 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 2. The collapse of the Abbasid Caliphate 3. The importance of the seventh century 4. The seventh century as a turning point 5. Pirenne Thesis and Conclusion Yale U.: http://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-210/lecture-17 You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afmnB0o8-jI Transcript: http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/1241/hist-210 *The Message - The Story of Islam* 1977 Hollywood movie with Anthony Quinn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi2AtEKsdUU *The Making of an Epic* Documentary film about the making of the movie *The Message* 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) Mohammedan Culture and Philosophy Chapter from the History of Western Philosophy (1949) by Bertrand Russell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDDl1ljHWLA How Islam Began Lecture by Fred Donner U. of Chicago 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RFK5u5lkhA The Caliph Three-part Al Jazeera documentary 1. Foundation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3O9d7PsI48 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heCsl7_iqq8 2. Division https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuplOE5JB4M or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq5O8i4_Jis 3. Decline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXXSo7WzZsk or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmHRHk1-m2E The Arab Conquests Discussion on the BBC weekly Thursday radio programme In Our Time josted by Melvyn Bragg With guests Hugh Kennedy, Amira Bennison and Robert Hoyland 26 June 2008 BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00c5xzc or https://www.twine.fm/SaiyanTanaka/cmr7s0/bbc-radio-4-in-our-time-2008-the-arab-conquests or You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3457zLYJscg Islamic Law and its Origins Discussion on the BBC weekly Thursday radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg 5 May 2011 With guests Hugh Kennedy, Robert Gleave and Mona Siddiqui http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010t69b Sunni and Shia Islam Discussion on the BBC weekly Thursday radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg With guests Amira Bennison, Robert Gleave and Hugh Kennedy 25 June 2009 BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00l5mhl You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WxYvixnyk8 ---------------- 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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMrV4qZ0fao Yale U.: http://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-210/lecture-18 Transcript: http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/1242/hist-210 The Byzantine Empire at its greatest extent (550) 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) ---------------------- 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 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04kf8ps ----------------- 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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPlaS_wGzx8 *Part 2: The Empire of Reason* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0FSgNE4Lxc *Part 3: The Power of Doubt* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LjdnKE_i9E *or all three parts in one:* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL41gX0fJng *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 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08dr5qt -------------- The Cheramun Juma Masjid in Kerala, first mosque in India, built in 628.**







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