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The Age of the Polymaths

Year

2025

Language

ENGLISH

Duration

29m

Rating

TVPG

Performers

Eren Tasar

Directed By

The Great Courses

Publication Information

The Great Courses

Summary

The Samanid dynasty followed the Abbasid tradition of patronage of scholars and artists, making its great capital of Bukhara a center of learning that rivaled Baghdad. Take the measure of some of history's greatest minds that emerged in this setting, such as polymaths Avicenna, considered the father of modern medicine; visionary philosopher al-Farabi; and "first anthropologist" al-Biruni.

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