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The Islamic Golden Age

The Essay

Series rediscovering some of the key thinkers and achievements from the Islamic Golden Age, focusing on architecture, invention, medicine, innovation and philosophy

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Lubna of Cordoba

All available episodes (20 total)

  • Death in Trieste

    A 1760s murder still informs ideas about aesthetics, a certain sort of sex, and death.

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    Five compelling experiences of what it is like to be deaf in 21st-century Britain.

  • Five figures from the arts and science introduce books that changed their lives and work.

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    Download all the episodes from the series and listen at your leisure.

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