Fund Drive Special – The Map of Knowledge

KPFA - Letters and Politics

English - May 23, 2019 10:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 232 ratings
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In concluding our series of conversations on the ancient world, today, we look at the Caliphates of the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries in Baghdad and Cordoba.

Guest: Violet Moller is a historian and writer who specializes in intellectual history. She is the author of the book The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found.
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