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- Season 1 From Camels to Stars in the Middle East
- Season 1 Ibn Battuta’s Search for Knowledge
- Season 1 Arabian Nights Caliph: Harun al-Rashid
- Season 1 The Arab World's Greatest Writer al-Jahiz
- Season 1 Algebra, Algorithms, and al-Khwarizmi
- Season 1 Baghdad's House of Wisdom
- Season 1 Muhammad, the Hadith, and Imam Bukhari
- Season 1 Interpreting and Defending the Quran
- Season 1 The Arab Herodotus al-Masudi
- Season 1 Cairo, al-Haytham, and the Book of Optics
- Season 1 Master Muslim Scholar: al-Biruni
- Season 1 Astronomy in the Islamic Golden Age
- Season 1 Medieval Muslim Medicine and Hospitals
- Season 1 Alchemistry and Chemistry in Early Baghdad
- Season 1 The Fertile Crescent, Water, and al-Jazari
- Season 1 Jewish Scholar in Cairo Moses Maimonides
- Season 1 The Banu Musa's Inventions and Automatons
- Season 1 Mosques, Architecture, and Gothic Revival
- Season 1 Arabic Verse, Love Poetry, and Wine Songs
- Season 1 Medieval Mastermind Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
- Season 1 Entertaining in the Time of the Abbasids
- Season 1 Calligraphy, Carpets, and the Arabic Arts
- Season 1 When Did the Islamic Golden Age End
- Season 1 Ibn Khaldun on the Rise and Fall of Empire
Islamic Golden Age - Season 1 Episode 4 The Arab World's Greatest Writer al-Jahiz
0.00 48 minutes Considered by many scholars to be the finest writer of Arabic prose who ever lived, al-Jahiz was a brilliant stylist and author of more than 200 works, many of which survive today. Here, you will uncover the origins of Arabic writing before turning to the life and works of al-Jahiz.
