TTC Video – Turning Points in Middle Eastern History

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TTC Video – Turning Points in Middle Eastern History

The Middle East is a critically important area of our world. And, with its current prominence in international affairs, media images of the Middle East reach us on a daily basis.

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36 lectures
|  Average 30 minutes each

1
Muslim Empires: Land, Language, Religion
2
Muhammad and the Dawn of Islam – 622
3
Arab Invasion of North Africa – 639
4
Umayyad Caliphate in Damascus – 661
5
Battle of Karbala – 680
6
Arab Invasion of Andalusia – 711
7
Battle of Talas – 751
8
The Founding of Baghdad – 762
9
Islamic Golden Age Begins – 813
10

Qairouan University – 859
11
The Fatimids of Cairo – 969
12
Umayyad Exile in Cordoba – 784 – 1031
13
Al-Ghazali and Orthodoxy – 1090
14
Crusaders Capture Jerusalem – 1099
15
Muslims in the Court of Roger II – 1130
16
Saladin: Chivalry and Conquest – 1187
17
The Egyptian Mamluks – 1250
18
Mongols Sack Baghdad – 1258

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Ottoman Empire Rises – 1299
20
Mansa Musa, Richest Man – 1324
21
Ibn Khaldun’s Masterpiece – 1377
22
Ottomans Seize Constantinople – 1453
23
Fall of Granada – 1492
24
Safavid Dynasty of Persia – 1501
25
Selim the Grim – 1512
26
Suleiman the Magnificent – 1520
27
Second Siege of Vienna – 1683
28
The Saud-Wahhab Pact – 1744
29
Napoleon Invades Egypt – 1798
30
Murder at the Citadel – 1811
31
French Invasion of Algeria – 1830
32
East India Company in Yemen – 1839
33
Egypt, Europe, and the Suez Canal – 1869
34
Discovering Middle East Oil – 1908
35
World War I in the Desert – 1914
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The Last Caliphate Falls – 1924