Crossroads of Civilization: A History of Central Asia

The Age of the Polymaths (1x9)

Air date: Jan 01, 2025

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.