The Commentator
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Between 900 and 1300, most of the world's learning and scholarship was happening in places like Baghdad, Cairo, Timbuktu, and Cordoba. The people of Islamic lands created a canon of medicine that was used in Europe until the 1800s. In this episode, how one medieval Islamic philosopher put his pen to paper and shaped the modern world.
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