The 1001 Arabian Knights

The 1001 Arabian Knights

By Houston Rifai and Oban Al-RekabiHistory
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The 1001 Arabian Knights episodes

  • (B) The Nabataeans: Prophets and Kings
    In this Episode the hosts Oban and Houston discuss the deaths of Jesus of Nazareth and John the Baptist. How a war over love and land broke out between the House of Herod and the Nabataean king. Finally, the hosts discuss how Paul the Apostle spread the Christian faith and how the Nabataean king played into this story. All this and more in this instalment of The 1001 Arabian Knights.
    52 min
  • (A) The Nabataeans: World of the Messiah
    In this episode our hosts Houston and Oban examine the lost civilization of the Nabataeans. The people famed for their desert capital Petra. Where did the Nabataean Arabs come from? How did they interact with their Jewish neighbours? How do the Nabataeans tie in with the story of the Nativity, the birth of Jesus of Nazareth? All these questions and more are explored in this episode of The 1001 Arabian Knights!
    56 min
  • 1.4 (a) Cities from the Stone, Gardens from the Desert

    In this episode our hosts Houston and Oban examine the lost civilization of the Nabataeans. The people famed for their desert capital Petra. Where did the Nabataean Arabs come from? How did they interact with their Jewish neighbours? How does their story tie in with the nativity, the birth of Jesus of Nazareth? All these questions and more are explored in this episode of The 1001 Arabian Knights!

    56 min
  • Belief is Yemenite and Wisdom is Yemenite

    In this episode our hosts Houston and Oban examine the pre-Islamic history of Yemen. How were the ancient Yemenite kingdoms organized? How were they related to the Arabs to their north? What was their relationship to the great powers of the age, especially Rome? All these questions and more are explored in this episode of The 1001 Arabian Knights!

    1 hr 13 min
  • From the Flood to the Battle

    In this episode our hosts Houston and Oban seek to explore the stage on which the Arabs first entered the world. To bridge the gap between prehistory and the emergence of the Arabs as a distinct people. Where do our legends of "The Great Flood" come from? What great civilizations dominated the ancient middle east? Who was the first Arab in recorded history? All this and more will be answered in this episode of the 1001 Arabian Knights!



    1 hr 38 min
  • The Origins of the Arabs
    In this episode we discuss the mysterious origins of the Arab people through the lens of science and legend. We explore how, by tradition, the Arab people identify their origins in southern Arabia. How does this square with the genetic and linguistic evidence? Who were Adnan and Qahtan. How are their stories connected with the Abrahamic tradition? All this and more in this episode of the 1001 Arabian Knights!
    1 hr 16 min

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Join us as hosts Oban Al-Rekabi and Houston Rifai discuss Arab History, from their origins as a people to the modern age. Casual yet informative dialogue about the great figures of the past whose…