9/27/2007
| 1. | The Arabs make their entrance : Islam and Empire |
| 2. | Once upon a time : Baghdad during the Abbasid Dynasty |
| 3. | The Andalusian Epic : Islamic Spain |
| 4. | They surveyed the world : exploring the Arab Empire and beyond |
| 5. | The Muslim town : urban life under the Caliphate |
| 6. | An art of living : Arab aesthetics in 9th-century Spain |
| 7. | The secrets of the human body: Islam's contributions to medicine |
| 8. | Everything under the sun : astronomy, mathematics, and Islam |
| 9. | The thousand and one nights: a historical perspective |
| 10. | Ulema and philosophers: faith vs. reason in Islamic Arabia |
| 11. | From Arabic to Latin : the assimilation of Arab knowledge |
| 12. | Forgetting the Arabs : Europe on the cusp of the Renaissance |