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Season 1 Episode
- 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 8 Interpreting and Defending the Quran
0.00 48 minutes Delve into the realm of Quranic exegesis from the year 750 until about 1258. By considering the life of al-Tabari, one of the most important commentators in Islamic history, you will uncover the method and implications of tafsir, or exegesis. Your study will take you into controversial territory with a look at the infamous Satanic Verses.
