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I loved this course and recommend it highly. It was well organized, had good, clear, enthusiastic lecturers and some great materials. The subject matter is fascinating. I did have some criticisms - for example, there was a tendency to condescend to students, assuming we were all starting out with Eurocentric and "Orientalist" assumptions that we had to be converted from. Still, I won't harp on things that worried me that might not worry others. Overall it's a beautifully designed and executed course, and despite some criticisms that I have it exceeded my expectations. Thanks to all who were involved!

Very intruiging and interesting course presenting an often ignored past of medieval Islamic history. Course materials and readings are good but the review system is broken. Honours content needs better optimization.

Es un curso muy interesante. Videos, audios, lecturas que nos proporcionan una visión del mundo árabe en la época medieval. lo disfruté mucho.

Very good. engaging and interesting content and lectures partitioned by quizzes to show progress. A few technical issues but overall, superb!

El curso se ofrece en español, pero posee podcast en idioma inglés lo que imposibilita la comprensión, no pude completar.

This course was too biased, too pro-muslim society, always comparing it to western society as if this was the role model. Sentences like "Baghdad had a million of citizens while London was a fishing village" prevented me from enjoying the course. It would have been nice if the subjects would have taught free of comparison, just as they are, allowing the students to get their own interpretations and ideas.

Terrific course! As a student history enthusiast, I finished this course in four months, and it has been an engaging and fruitful experience. Thank you for your hard work, I especially loved the discussion about orientalism and the course's consciousness of its influence throughout the lessons. Contrary to biased and stereotypical views, this course really keeps an open-minded perspective, which made it more enjoyable and valuable as well!

This course was fantastic and fascinating for me. I have cleared my views on how the medieval ages, some times it was thought to be a so called dark ages, is not as much true. The contribution of the medieval Arabic ages is a key mile stone for our todays explosion of knowledge, specifically, the scientific outlook of the NATURE.

Thanks to Universiteit Leiden and Coursera team. Pray all them to more success and guidance.

An excellent course. Well paced and well organized. I learned so much from this course. The lecturers were good and knew their course work. Great videos and podcasts. I enjoyed the library readings. The quizzes were too easy I feel. Possibly some extracurricular work would be gratefully accepted. Overall I am very pleased with this course

I was responsible for online training at a big company and I am familiar with online courses. This was the best online course so far in Cursera and I did other very good ones. Combination of good materials, different tasks and evaluations make a great course. I want to congratulate the teachers of the University of Leyden on this course.

I thought the course was fantastic. The lectures were all interesting and helpful, and I found the additional readings and further reading suggestions very helpful. My only complaint - it would be fantastic if the Leiden crew put together additional courses, building on this course.

Beautiful, beautiful course on the Medieval Arabic World. I especially enjoyed the lectures on Orientalism and all the information on the history of medicine. Proud to be a Leiden alumnus and to see the university sharing knowledge, freely and widely, across the Internet. Thank you!

Great course. Lots of additional sources cited for supplemental educational opportunities. The Leiden University itself has Islamic manuscripts available other than those shown in the videos. My only complaint is that some of the links aren't working and need to be redone.

Excellent course. You will be enlightened by a culture that has been misrepresented in our modern age. We owe so much to the Medieval Arabic World that we take for granted today. I'm grateful I could take this class and learn so much.

The informations given in this course were very interesting. I feel like now I have a better understanding of the world. I was fascinated by a lot of stuff.

CONS: some of the texts that were given as lecture were somehow long and dull

This course is really amazing! It shows us how medieval arabic world helped the development of the whole world in Science, culture, Medicine, Astronomy and so on. Congratulations to Leiden University for this incredible work.

Outstanding. The presenters were excellent and had very interesting lectures, with helpful, useful visual accompaniments, A fascinating and enlightening introduction to what was for me an unknown world. Thank you.

I really enjoyed the material presented in this course. It was pretty useful and I highly recommend it to the people who are interested in medieval Arabic world. Great thanks to the university of Leiden.

I started to listen to this course out of curiosity but I have learned so much that I have never heard elsewhere before. The videos were great, the readings were very diverse and interesting.

Ho vissuto la piu' bella ed intensa esperienza formativa possibile.

Del tutto inaspettata quanto entusiasmante. Corso strutturato magnificamente ricco di spunti di approfondimento.

Grazie.

Really interesting course covering a wide range of topics. I had no knowledge of this subject, perfect for beginners, and I now have more interest in Arabic history. Thank you

Probably it's better than most of the course you take at your university. Ranging from articles to videos everything is well-designed. Highly recomended.

Great course. With very diverse resources and clear mini lectures, I've learned so much and gained a different perspective to see Medieval Arabic World.

Such an enlightened course. I really learned a lot. its really a good decision to be part of this academic study on Cosmopolitan Medieval Arabic World.