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课程名称：《大都市的中世纪阿拉伯世界》 课程概述： 你知道阿拉伯语曾是从西班牙南部到中国边界地区的通用语吗？在穆斯林统治的时期，中东是贸易、科学和学术的心脏。伊斯兰教在其形成期深受印度、希腊、波斯和拜占庭文化的影响，并且在穆斯林帝国建立后，社会中的大多数人仍然主要是基督徒和犹太人，他们在伊斯兰法下享有保护地位。这种开放、好奇的社会促进了许多伟大的创新和发明。 在课程中，我们将深入探讨阿拉伯中世纪世界的迷人历史，从八世纪的巴格达出发，沿着古老的朝圣之路，访问麦加、耶路撒冷和纳贾夫，展现开罗和撒马尔罕等地令人印象深刻的集市。我们也不回避社会的黑暗面，包括繁荣的奴隶贸易。通过参观阿拔斯王朝的宫廷、哈里发的后宫以及马穆鲁克苏丹的宫殿，我们将展示那些见证科学家和医学家成就的美丽中世纪手稿。 整个旅程将伴随着历史学的辩论与困境，反思我们如何看待和诠释历史，并解释历史事件如何塑造当今世界。 欢迎来到《大都市的中世纪阿拉伯世界》！现在就报名，免费参加这个课程。 课程大纲： 1. 欢迎来到课程：介绍课程内容和技术支持信息。 2. 中世纪的伊斯兰城市：探讨“伊斯兰城市”的概念及其特征，以巴格达为例。 3. 旅行与宗教：研究中世纪社会中不同宗教的共存与冲突、宗教旅行对社会的影响。 4. 贸易：分析中世纪中东的贸易重要性，包括浪漫的商队形象与奴隶贸易的黑暗面。 5. 权力游戏：深入探讨奴隶角色在社会中的权力与地位，并分析与东方主义的关系。 6. 科学：研究中世纪阿拉伯世界的科学成就及其如何影响欧洲和今天的世界。 7. 结论：总结中世纪伊斯兰世界的多样性和先进性，并探讨历史与现实的联系。 通过这门课程，您将了解中世纪阿拉伯世界的精彩与复杂性，以及其对现代社会的影响。
Name:Welcome to this Course
Description:Great that you are joining us! In this course you will learn about the Cosmopolitan Medieval Arabic World. For technical difficulties or questions regarding the course certificate, you can always contact the Coursera Learner Helpdesk. Good luck & we hope you will enjoy this course!
Name:The Medieval Islamic City
Description:In this Module we will examine the Islamic City. We will discuss if such a thing as "the Islamic city" exists. If so, what are the features that we are looking for ? We will also focus on specific examples of cities in the Medieval Middle East, most notably Baghdad. How was it possible that Baghdad grew to the size that it did? And what role did hygiene and medical care for instance play in that growth?
Name:Travel & Religion
Description:In this Module we will focus on diversity and connection by looking at religion. We will explore Medieval society and zoom in on the fact that many different religions and religious views coexisted. We will see that different religions shared practices. Sometimes they would even worship in the same place. But we will also show examples of tension and the interaction between politics and religion. Furthermore we will try to find out how religious travelling shaped society.
Name:Trade
Description:In this module we will take a look at trade. For the Medieval Middle East, trade was immensely important and it owed much of its wealth and prosperity to trade. There are the romantic images of caravans carrying lush fabrics, porcelain and gold along the desert roads of the silk route. And there is the dark side of a flourishing slave trade. But how correct are our images of what the Islamic or Arab world was and is like? Why is it that many people know about harems and very few people know about the legal innovations that enabled trade that we will also discuss in this module? To explore that question further we will introduce you to the concept of Orientalism.
Name:Power Play
Description:In the last Module we introduced the slave trade in the Medieval Middle East. In this module we will further explore slavery. How was it possible that some of the most powerful people in society, both men and women, were or had been slaves? We will discuss the outrage that followed professor Jonathan Brown's views on slavery and Islam. And with the concept of Orientalism in mind, we will try to sketch a more realistic picture of Harems.
Name:Science
Description:In this module we will focus on science in the Medieval Muslim world. How did scientific inventions of the Medieval Arabic world make their way to Europe and how did they eventually contribute to shaping today's world? How was knowledge preserved and how did books travel through the ages? We will research if survival of ideas and sources was a matter of sheer luck, or if we can recognize some patterns.
Name:In conclusion: the Cosmopolitain Medieval Arabic World
Description:In this Course we tried to show you that the Medieval Islamic world was diverse advanced and connected. We have also focused on the danger of over- or under-representation of historical facts. Lastly we have tried to connect the past to the present by explaining and showing how events that took place a long time ago still affect today's world.
Did you know that Arabic was for centuries the lingua franca in an area stretching from the south of Spain to the Chinese border? Did you know that the Middle East under Muslim rule in those days was the world’s beating heart of trade, but also of science and scholarship? Did you know that Islam in its formative period was heavily influenced by existing cultures in the region, like Indian, Greek, Persian and Byzantine culture? Did you know that for many centuries after the establishment of the Muslim Empire the majority of the population remained largely Christian and Jewish? Did you know that they held a protected status in Islamic law? Did you know that this generally open-minded, curious and open society stimulated many great innovations and inventions? Did you know that European scholarship in the Renaissance leaned heavily on the texts and inventions from the Middle East which were the outcome of this sophisticated advanced society? In this course we will focus on the fascinating history of the Arabic Medieval World. We will take you on a journey through the Middle Ages starting off in eighth-century Baghdad. Along the old pilgrim trails we will go to places like Mecca, Jerusalem and Najaf. We will show you the impressive markets of places like Cairo and Samarkand. However we will not hide the dark sides of society either, by introducing you to the flourishing widespread slave trade. We will visit the Abbasid court, the Harem of the caliph, and the palace of the Mamluk Sultan. We will show you some beautiful medieval manuscripts, that live on as the silent witnesses of the impressive achievements of scientists and medical doctors of this forgotten era. All along we will present you with historiographical debates and dilemma’s. Reflecting on the way we look at and interpret history. And while taking you on this journey, we will travel back and forth in time explaining to you how events of the past affected and shaped the world as we know it today. Welcome to the Cosmopolitan Medieval Arabic World! Enroll now and follow this course for free. --- Testimonial: Dear Prof. Sijpesteijn I am sending this email in gratitude for the Leiden University team for this course. Please thank the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs for offering it on Coursera, the Faculty of Humanities for creating the lovely course content and the excellent reading material. Rarely have I seen an MOOC that is this well-researched and thought through. This is in addition to the excellent resources provided and the creative media. I finished the course and presently doing the honors-track. If I may introduce myself, I am Radi Radi, a Palestinian-Jordanian who lives on "Shajaret Al Dur" St. in Amman, Jordan. It was quite an coincidence to learn about her here. I work as a pilot and currently we are not flying anywhere currently so I thought of finishing this course. I am a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from Ryerson Univeristy, Canada and this really felt like the 100-level electives I took in that it really is a university-level course. I have bought a few books that I have read about in your course and that meant that I have something else to do in this corona-imposed hiatus. After Once aviation kicks back into gear, I hope to be flying to Amsterdam Again. When that happens, I plan on bringing you guys a gift from Amman for your efforts. Many Thanks Radi Radi
