HIST 4100 – 01/02 – ONLINE: Ancient World Civilizations

Tells how Arabic scholars preserved and transmitted Greek and Roman philosophy and science across the Muslim world during Europe's Dark Ages.

Information and texts on the history of Islam, covering the pre-Islamic Arab world, Muhammad and the foundations of Islam, faith and theology, expansion and empire, and the founding of the Caliphate.

In this brief example of the Prophet Muhammad's teaching, the main tenets of Islam are revealed.

Describes the Alhambra and the Albayzin section of Granada, which is known for its Moorish vernacular architecture (12:36).

Military conflict accompanied the spread of Islam during the Middle Ages. This program reveals the ironies of that union between war and faith (30 mins).

Art critic Waldemar Januszczak travels through the heart of the Middle East and beyond to study a wide range of Islamic architecture, decoration, and art objects (60 mins).

With stunning visuals of the aqueduct at Segovia, the Mesquita Mosque in Cordova, Granada's Alhambra Palace, and other magnificent locations, this program vividly illustrates the ebb and flow of two empires prior to the Christian reconquista of the peninsula (53 mins).

This film explores the process by which medical knowledge was preserved and passed on by Islamic scholars during the Dark Ages (50 mins).

Beginning with the eighth-century defeat of Islamic forces in the Asturian mountains, this program traces the gradual return of Christian rule to Spain (53 mins).

Art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon travels from Cordoba to Seville and on to Granada as he tells the story of art in Islamic and medieval Spain (51 mins).

On the life of Muhammad and the rise of Islam (54 mins).

How the Islamic Empire came into being through conquest, trade, and religious conversion (53 mins).