From Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
The House of Wisdom (Bayt al-Hikmah) was a major intellectual center, library, and translation institute in Baghdad during the Islamic Golden Age.
- It started in the late 8th century as a private royal library for the Abbasid Caliph Harun al-Rashid (reigned 786–809). His son, Caliph al-Ma’mun (reigned 813–833), expanded its scope into a grand public academy and research hub.
Poster depicting Saddam, who often likened himself to previous societies which inhabited Iraq, including but not limited to the Rashidun Caliphate.
Saddam next to Saladin and Nebuchadnezzar II (1989)
As we were learning about the various topics in class, I remembered this guy’s comedic history videos, and I thought I could find one of his Islam or Iran videos (he’s Iranian), and post it here. During the reading I really liked learning about the Byzantines and Sassanids, so I wanted to try and use this video. The videos are meant to be entertainment first, with a focus on the humor Gen Z, so if internet humor isn’t your thing, you might not like it. Otherwise, I found this pretty funny and thought it would fit here.
My paper is on the Mongol invasions of Japan in 1274 and 1281. I found an interesting piece of art depicting the battle from the Japanese perspective and thought I’d share it.
https://www.worldhistory.org/image/11272/the-mongol-invasion-of-japan
This is my first medieval Islamic civilization class, so understanding everything that we were learning in class was a lot sometimes. However, the following video really helped me with reviewing most of the material we learned this semester.
Over Thanksgiving Break, my family and I rewatched Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) movie. In the intro, it mentioned the Ottomans fighting Vlad the Impaler, and I became interested learning more about the story behind this. I came to learn that it was Mehmed II (The Conqueror) who battled with Vlad the Impaler. The following is a YouTube video I found that covers this part of history.
A world map compiled in 1513 by the Piri Reis. Approximately one third of the map still survives, seen in the image above. He cites twenty sources for the map, including eight Ptolemaic maps, an Arabic map of India, four Portuguese maps and the maps of Christopher Columbus featuring the ‘Western Lands’.
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piri_Reis_map