KW
May 30, 2022
I learned so much in this course. I definitelyrecommend doing the extra readings and assignments in the honors track. The extra knowledge is worth the effort. I am delighted I found this course!
DG
Dec 10, 2019
Thank you for this beautiful course ! I learned a lot and most important, as a European, this course changed my vision of the Islamic world. This course opens my mind. Thank you !
By Nafisha B M
•Jun 7, 2021
Very informative.
By francisco v r
•Sep 6, 2020
EXCELLENT COURSE
By Dave R
•Apr 12, 2020
Excellent course
By Pedro R
•Sep 15, 2022
Excellent!!!!!
By Historiando c F A
•May 27, 2024
Curso perfeito
By Joanne J
•Mar 29, 2022
great course
By Mohd A
•May 3, 2020
excellent!
By Mohamed H
•Dec 26, 2018
i love you
By Ana M J L
•Mar 6, 2022
excellent
By saf a
•Apr 2, 2021
Thanks
By Veronica E p
•May 18, 2020
I LIKE
By Joana M
•May 3, 2020
In gereral, the course in The Cosmopolitan Medieval Arabic World is very interesting.
The different knowledge shared along the weeks is associated with sociey, its infrastructures, religion, commercial activities - trade, slaves and mameluks, cultural development, orientalism and translation movements.
In my opinion, from all the readins, only two of them were not that interesting and I feel that I lost too much time paying attention to it. The exams by the end of each module should be more straight to the information learnt.
Overall, the knowledge I got from it will be very important in my job.
By Amy S
•Apr 10, 2024
Phenomenal course! Really enjoyed learning about the different topics covered and taking part in forum discussions. However, I'm only rating 4 stars because I was unable to access some of the material like the podcasts as the links didn't work or material wasn't available for whatever reason. Other than that, I'd like to give a big thank you to Prof. Petra Sijpesteijn, the assistants and course peers.
By Nina F
•Jan 14, 2021
This was a very enlightening and informative course. I learned about many things that I didn't know about before. I greatly enjoyed the lectures and the readings and am now very interested in learning more about the Medieval Arabic world. My only issue with this course is that the subtitles for the videos need to be improved. There is a lot of misspelling in the subtitles for the videos.
By Emily C
•Mar 20, 2021
There is some engaging material in this course. In fact, I think I will probably access and refer to some of the materials again in the future. However, the best thing about the course was that I learnt that I could register for a JSTOR account and read a certain number of articles for free each month.
By Leonie K
•Jan 1, 2023
A very interesting course which opened my eyes for the history of the medieval world.
Like with other Coursera courses, the transcripts were te weakest links in the course. Obviously there is no one that is proofreading them before they are published.
By Lowell N
•Mar 8, 2021
Interesting subject, generally high-quality presentations, and well organized. Covered a broad range of issues (economic, social, governmental, scientific) to give a better feel for what was going on in this area at the time.
By Nick R
•Feb 8, 2024
Overall, a very good introduction to the medieval Islamic world. Down points were that some of the reading was extremely heavy and the Soundcloud files often didn't work.
By Mehwish A
•Apr 5, 2021
It was an amazing experience studying this course with Coursera, it has many fascinating stories which caught my attention and I would like to revisit them someday.
By Victoria E
•Sep 17, 2022
A very good course that challenges a lot of stereotypes. A few of the links need replaceing as they have broken though.
By Kate C
•Nov 30, 2022
Links to podcasts, part of the class offering, were broken.
By Andrew W
•Feb 11, 2023
I was somewhat disappointed by the number of links to documents or Soundcloud items that didn't work - it seems to be difficult to get anyone to reply to my report of this. Something that obviously needs revision. At the time of writing I am still waiting feedback about one of my Honours assignments.
By Jules P
•Oct 18, 2022
The podcasts were unaccessible, and the readings sometimes a little bit long, so the experience was not the best. It is though a good and interesting course !
By peter v b
•Feb 23, 2023
quite a large number of podcasts and links do not work (anymore) The course should be updated
By Szepseskaf
•Jun 28, 2021
The course wasn't bad. I've laerned some very interesting facts. However, the material I was supposed to read was rather boring. I'd rather listen to more lectures than read those many articles