It’s the Islamic Golden Age! And Baghdad is right at the centre of it all. So, somewhere in here I must be able to find the answer. I’ve been to the market. But they say flying carpets are ...

city-building… brilliant scholarship, and technological innovation. It has come to be remembered as Islam’s ‘golden age’. This is the story of the Abbasid Caliphate. #EpicHistoryTV # ...

With time, the Arabs improved on their paper-making technology, and by 900 CE, shops in Baghdad were employing scribes to write books. Other notable inventions of the Islamic Golden Age include ...

We meet: Jamila: a slave from Baghdad Yusuf: a market stallholder ... this series introduces different aspects of life in the Islamic Golden Age, circa AD900. Explore how values contrast to ...