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Born 1004CE in present-day Tajikistan then under control of the Ghaznavid dynasty, Abū Muʿīn al-Dīn Nasir Khusraw was an Ismaili... more
Born under the Samanid dyansty and living through the rule of the Ghaznavid dynasty in Tus located north Iran, Ferdowsi... more
Living under the Samanid dyansty in modern-day Tajikistan, Rudaki is considered the first of the great classical Islamic Persian poets... more
Thomas Bauer's "A Culture of Ambiguity" stands out as one of the most important contributions to Islamic Studies in recent... more
The longest aqueduct of the ancient world, the Valens aqueduct brought water to the capital of the eastern Roman empire:... more
In this episode we discuss what is perhaps the most famous and distinctive invention of Middle Eastern and North African... more
It is often difficult to reconstruct the water infrastructure at historical sites due to recent building and patchy excavation and... more
You can’t think about clean water without also thinking about removing dirty water and other waste. In this episode we... more
Ep4. The City on The Tigris: Baghdad, Drinking and Water Transport Medieval Baghdad was probably home to 200,000 to 500,000... more
The bathhouse is an iconic feature of the medieval middle eastern city up until the present. But how did this... more
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