Archives Islamic History
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<p>Each episode, we break down a key era, event, or figure from Islamic history. From the rise of the first caliphate to the Golden Age of Baghdad to the fall of great empires, we cover it all. Whether you're learning for the first time or filling in the gaps, this is the podcast for you.<br><br><br></p>
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August 6, 2026
Timbuktu - The City That Traded in Books (part 2)
Ahmad Baba al-Timbukti was the most eminent jurist and teacher in Timbuktu, a member of the scholarly Aqit family, at the moment his city stopped belonging to itself. This episode opens with the popular myth of the "University of Sankore" and replaces it with the real system: mosque courtyards and private houses, a teacher and a student reading one book together until it was finished, and an ijaza, a written authorization naming a specific book and a specific teacher, as the only diploma that...
August 4, 2026
Timbuktu - The City That Traded in Books (part 1): Timbuktu was never planned...
Timbuktu has no founder, no charter, and no founding date. Tradition holds that Tuareg nomads left an older woman, Buktu, in charge of a well around 1100 CE, and a city grew outward from the water she guarded. This episode traces how that accident of geography, a well eight miles from the point where the Niger River bends deepest into the Sahara, turned into the meeting point of two trade systems: camel caravans carrying salt down from the desert, and river canoes carrying gold up from the go...
July 27, 2026
The Abbasid Revolution (part 4): The Faceless Man Must Die
This is the fourth and final part of the story of the Abbasid Revolution, and it begins where a triumph is supposed to end. In January of 750, the Abbasid armies broke the last Umayyad field force at the Great Zab, and the most powerful dynasty on earth began to fall. What happened next was not a victory parade. It was a reckoning, and it fell on enemies and friends alike. The episode follows the winners past the moment of victory. It tracks the last Umayyad khalifa, Marwan, fleeing the lengt...
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<p>Each episode, we break down a key era, event, or figure from Islamic history. From the rise of the first caliphate to the Golden Age of Baghdad to the fall of great empires, we cover it all. Whether you're learning for the first time or filling in the gaps, this is the podcast for you.<br><br><br></p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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