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378. Baghdad: The Golden Age (Part 3)Part 3
2023-10-15 • 786 – 809
From the Baghdad: City at the Crossroads of Islam and Empire
Baghdad was a place of fabulous sophistication and teeming multitudes, where terrible things could happen, but great wonders could also be found… During the Islamic Golden Age, it was the most global…
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379. Baghdad: The Arabian Nights (Part 4)Part 4
2023-10-18 • 750 – 1258
From the Baghdad: City at the Crossroads of Islam and Empire
The setting for so many of the Arabian Nights, like the stories of Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, or Aladdin, Baghdad during the Islamic Golden Age had a shimmering image, a dimens…
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