Lesson 10 of 13 • 1 upvotes • 12:08 mins
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.
13 lessons • 2h 15m
Overview: The First Three Centuries of the Medieval Period
3:50 mins
Period between 700 to 711 AD.
6:58 mins
Arab Invasion of Sindh
13:35 mins
Aftermaths of the Arab Invasion of Sindh
10:53 mins
The Rashtrakutas - Part 1
13:32 mins
The Rashtrakutas - Part 2
13:28 mins
The Pratiharas
12:41 mins
The Palas
10:46 mins
The Tripartite Struggle
9:04 mins
The Golden Age of Islam
12:08 mins
Religion During the Three Centries
11:12 mins
The Developments in Central Asia
8:36 mins
India on the eve of Ghaznavid Invasion
8:49 mins