From Athens to Baghdad: How Muslims Inherited pre-Islamic Thought

This forty-fourth clip examines how the intellectual centers of antiquity such as Athens were inherited by Islamic civilization and did not reach the West until 1500 years later (which will also be crucial for our discussion of Islamic science).

The primary reading for this segment of the online course at Xavier University is the essay "Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Spirituality" by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, pp. 416-418.