Over the last few episodes in our story, we followed various movements and developments that worked towards the spread and sharing of knowldege, a key component in the story of innovation and progress, most notably in the synthesis of Indian, Greek and Persian knowledge by the scholars of the Islamic Golden Age in [Episode 33] and then its translation into Europe via Muslim Spain in the follow-up [Episode 33B].

Let’s now look at what’s perhaps the most outstanding and longlasting crystallization and culmination of all these forces.

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Article written by Ash Stuart

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Further Reading & Reference

* Haskins, Charles Homer. (1957). The Rise of Universities. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-9015-6.

* de Ridder-Symoens, Hilde. (1992). A History of the University in Europe: Volume I - Universities in the Middle Ages. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-54113-1.

* Al-Khalili, Jim. (2010). The House of Wisdom. Penguin Press. ISBN 978-1101476239.

* Mortimer, Ian. (2022). Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter. Vintage.

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