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🖋️EP065 Ali Hammoud on the life and works of Jami (d. 1492 CE): End of an Era

🖋️EP064 Ali Hammoud on the life and works of Hafez (d. 1390 CE): Tongue of the Unseen

🖋️EP063 Ali Hammoud on the life and works of Saadi (d. 1292 CE): the Master

🖋️EP062 Ali Hammoud on the life and works of Nizami Ganjavi (d. 1209 CE): the Romantic

🖋️EP061 Ali Hammoud on Attar of Nishapur (d. 1221CE): the Spirit of Persian Sufi Poetry

🖋️EP060 Ali Hammoud on the life and works of Sanai (d. 1141): Poeta Doctus

🖋️EP059 Ali Hammoud on the life and works of Omar Khayyam (d. 1131CE)

🖊️EP058 Ali Hammoud on the life and works of Nasir Khusraw (d. c.1088CE): The Proof

🖊️EP057 Ali Hammoud on the life and works of Ferdowsi (d.1019CE): author of the epic Shahnameh

🖋EP056 Ali Hammoud on the life and works of Rudaki (d. 941): Father of Persian Poetry

📖EP055 Faheem Hussain on Thomas Bauer's "A Culture of Ambiguity: An Alternative History of Islam"

💧EP054 GUEST EPISDODE (8/8) The Great Valens Aqueduct of Constantinople/ Istanbul

💧EP053 GUEST EPISDODE (7/8) Qanāts: Harvesting Water on the Edge of the Desert

💧EP052 GUEST EPISDODE (6/8) Water and the White Monastery: Water Management at a Single Site

💧EP051 GUEST EPISODE (5/8) Toilets and Waste in Andalusia

💧EP050 GUEST EPISODE (4/8) The City on The Tigris: Baghdad, Drinking and Water Transport

💧EP049 GUEST EPISODE (3/8) The Beginnings of the Bathhouse in the Middle East, from Rome to Early Islam

💧EP048 GUEST EPISODE (2/8) Mesopotamia: Taming the Euphrates

💧EP047 GUEST EPISODE (1/8) Water History and the Pre-Modern Middle East. "Source of Life: Water Management in the Premodern Middle East" (Radboud Institute for Culture and History)

🕸EP046 Prof. Hayrettin Yücesoy on his new book "Disenchanting the Caliphate"

🖋EP045 Nasim Hassani on an illustrated manuscript of al-Maqāmāt by Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥarīrī (d.1122CE)

💒EP044 The Curious Tale of Isaac: An Egyptian Jew baptised as godson to King Edward II (d. 1327)

💰EP043 Dr. Isabelle Imbert on a Beginner's Guide to Investing in Islamic Arts

🕌EP042 Dr. Isabelle Imbert on a Very Brief Introduction to Studying the History of Islamic Arts

💡EP041 Dr. Abdul Azim Ahmed on Shahab Ahmed's "What is Islam? The Importance of being Islamic"

🎈EP040 Muhammad Ali Mojaradi (@sharghzadeh) on Rumi (d. 1273CE): Life, Works and Legacy of a Muslim Poet (#RumiWasMuslim)

🏔 EP039 Dr. Ramon Harvey on Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī (d.944CE): Life, works and legacy of the seminal Sunni theologian

🧊EP038 Dr. Kevin Blankinship on Twitter Space (Monday 27th December 2021). Part 12 of 12 - Spring of Classical Arabic Poetry

🗻EP037 Dr. Kevin Blankinship on Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Ḥillī (1278-1349 CE): Poetry in the Mamluk era. Part 11 of 12 - Spring of Classical Arabic Poetry

🟥EP036 Dr. Kevin Blankinship on Ibn ʿArabī (1165-1240 CE): The Red Sulphur sings. Part 10 of 12 - Spring of Classical Arabic Poetry

🥀EP035 Dr. Kevin Blankinship on Ibn Zaydūn (1003-1071 CE): Love, Longing and Lost - an introduction to Andalusian poetry. Part 9 of 12 - Spring of Classical Arabic Poetry

⚔EP034 Dr. Kevin Blankinship on Abū Firās al-Ḥamdānī: the Prince, the Prisoner, the Poet. Part 8 of 12 - Spring of Classical Arabic Poetry

✒EP033 Dr. Kevin Blankinship on al-Mutanabī (c.915-965CE): 'the Shakespeare of the Arabs.' Part 7 of 12 - Spring of Classical Arabic Poetry

😷EP032 Prof. Peter Adamson on the life, work and legacy of Abū Bakr al-Rāzī (d.925CE): Physician, Philosopher, Provacateur

EP031 Dr. Antonia Bosanquet on Ibn al-Qayyim (d.1350CE) and Dhimma governance

EP030 Dr. Stephennie Mulder on Imām al-Shāfiʿī (d.820CE), an afterlife: the story of his mausoleum in Cairo and the role of arts and crafts as a source in Islamic(ate) history

🎟EP029 Dr. Hannah Erlwein from Kalamopod on a brief history of Kalām (philosophy of religion within the Islamic ecumene)

EP028 Dr. Jonathan Brown on the life, works and legacy of hadith scholar al-Bukhārī (810-870CE)

EP027 Dr. Aaron Tugendhaft on philosopher al-Fārābī (d. 951CE), ISIS and Iconoclasm

EP026 Dr. Philip Grant on the Zanj Revolt 869-883CE: A Slave Uprising against the Caliphate

EP025 Dr. Ahab Bdaiwi on Shaykh al-Mufīd (c.948-1022): Life, Works and Legacy of a Seminal Shia Scholar

EP024 Dr. Kevin Blankinship on al-Ḥallāj (c.858-922 CE): Life, works and poetic legacy of a martyred mystic. Part 6 of 12 - Spring of Classical Arabic Poetry

EP023 Dr. Kevin Blankinship on Abū Tammām (c.807-850 CE): Life, works and legacy of an anthologist. Part 5 of 12 - Spring of Classical Arabic Poetry

EP022 Dr. Kevin Blankinship on Abū al-ʿAtāhiyyaḧ (748-828 CE): Life, works and legacy of an ascetic poet. Part 4 of 12 - Spring of Classical Arabic Poetry

EP021 Abū Nuwās (c.756- c.814 CE). Part 3 of 12 - Spring of Classical Arabic Poetry

EP020 Dr. Kevin Blankinship on al-Farazdaq (c.641-c.730CE). Part 2 of 12 - Spring of Classical Arabic Poetry

EP019 Dr. Kevin Blankinship on ʾImr al-Qays (501-544CE). Part 1 of 12 - Spring of Classical Arabic Poetry

EP018 Dr. Christian Sahner on Christianity under the Caliphate

EP017 Dr. Laury Silvers on her Abbasid crime fiction quartet The Sufi Mysteries

EP016 Dr.Yasir Qadhi on the life, works and legacy of Jahm b. Ṣafwān (d. 746CE)

EP015 Dr. Sohaib Saeed on Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 1210): life, work and legacy as exegesist

EP014 Dr. Salman Younas on Abū Ḥanīfa (d. 767CE): Life, Works and Legacy

EP013 Dr. Khalil Andani on a brief history of Ismailism

EP012 Dr. Eric Hanne on the Buyid Dynasty 934-1062CE: Rise, Fall and Legacy📉

EP011 Dr. Rachel Schine on Race and Blackness in a medieval popular epic, Sirat Delhemma (C.11/12th CE)

EP010 Dr. Liana Saif on Islamic(ate) Astrology✨: themes, works and practitioners

EP009 Dr. Kevin Blankinship on the life and works of poet-philosopher 'heretic' Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (d. 1058)

EP008: Dr Yakoob Ahmed on the Ottoman takeover of the Caliphate 1517

EP007 Dr. Elaine van Dalen on Arabic commentaries on Hippocratic paediatrics

EP006 Dr. Emily Selove on Ḥikāyat Abī l-Qāsim (summer 2019)

EP005 Ian D. Morris on the Macoraba-Mecca Fallacy (pilot series)

EP004 Yusuf Chaudhary on the Islamisation of the Ilkhanate (pilot series)

EP003 Dr. Alex Strick on learning Arabic (pilot series)

EP002 Dr. Anees Lodhi on Hijrah (pilot series)

EP001 Prof. Hugh Kennedy on general Abbasid historical studies (pilot series)

Trailer for Abbasid History Podcast