Baghdad: The Arabian Nights (TRIH ep 379, part 4)
800 · Resource
This episode — the fourth in the hosts' series on Baghdad and the Islamic Golden Age — examines how medieval Baghdad became both an Islamic legal and intellectual centre and a global cultural crossroads. The hosts discuss the rise of jurisprudence (fiqh), the role of hadith, and competing Sunni legal schools (Abu Hanifa, Malik ibn Anas, Al-Shafi, Ibn Hanbal), and how scholars constrained caliphal power.
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Around 800
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