The Golden Age of Islam
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Abhyudaya Kelkar
Islam was spread over almost a third of the then known world. Politically, the Abbasid Caliphate controlled an area equivalent to almost four times the size of today’s India. Forget area, it extended from Morocco in north-western Africa to Sindh and then into Central Asia. There was difficult peace yet enormous development in various disciplines like science, mathematics, geography, philosophy, literature, art, and virtually every field known at that time. And this started happening from the Abbasid capital, Baghdad, the location of the ‘House of Wisdom’. This five centuries of ‘the Golden Age of Islam’ was a revolution in itself. Let us understand it.
Medieval India - The First Three Centuries
13 lessons • 2h 15m
1
Overview: The First Three Centuries of the Medieval Period
3:50 mins
2
Period between 700 to 711 AD.
6:58 mins
3
Arab Invasion of Sindh
13:35 mins
4
Aftermaths of the Arab Invasion of Sindh
10:53 mins
5
The Rashtrakutas - Part 1
13:32 mins
6
The Rashtrakutas - Part 2
13:28 mins
7
The Pratiharas
12:41 mins
8
The Palas
10:46 mins
9
The Tripartite Struggle
9:04 mins
10
The Golden Age of Islam
12:08 mins
11
Religion During the Three Centries
11:12 mins
12
The Developments in Central Asia
8:36 mins
13
India on the eve of Ghaznavid Invasion
8:49 mins
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