Historia Islamica Transistor (https://transistor.fm) https://feeds.transistor.fm/the-professor-ali-show A podcast exploring interconnected innovations in the history of the Islamic world, Renaissance Italy, and Europe's Age of Discoveries. @ 2025 Indy900 Media 9469e99b-9057-5bed-af15-8d562764d807 yes en Sun, 08 Mar 2026 03:31:09 -0700 Sun, 08 Mar 2026 03:32:35 -0700 https://img.transistorcdn.com/pi4h8ipqZ2V7XegLmaQ8KRdnv_CclmnAXKtHxg6PO1E/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85YTll/MjYxNjI2MTI0OWUw/ZTQ2MWNmODI2MjJl/NzA0Yy5wbmc.jpg Historia Islamica episodic Indy900 Media A podcast exploring interconnected innovations in the history of the Islamic world, Renaissance Italy, and Europe's Age of Discoveries. A podcast exploring interconnected innovations in the history of the Islamic world, Renaissance Italy, and Europe's Age of Discoveries.. Indy900 Media No No How Tang & Song Porcelain Transformed Islamic and Global Ceramics 2 2 How Tang & Song Porcelain Transformed Islamic and Global Ceramics full 00866bc7-280e-40a2-a5cc-e2b066e01ce0 https://share.transistor.fm/s/7a5d0d3b In the late-night deep dive, we explore how pristine Chinese porcelain from the Tang and Song dynasties traveled the Silk Road and Indian Ocean and sparked a ceramic revolution in Iraq and Europe.

We dive into:

  • The Belitung shipwreck treasure
  • Samarra excavations full of Chinese shards
  • How Islamic potters invented tin-glaze to copy that whiteness
  • The massive scale of 9th-century trade

Subscribe for more raw history deep dives blending East and West.


Sources:

  • Belitung shipwreck (Tang treasure ship)
  • Samarra archaeological finds
  • Ashmolean & British Museum collections
]]> In the late-night deep dive, we explore how pristine Chinese porcelain from the Tang and Song dynasties traveled the Silk Road and Indian Ocean and sparked a ceramic revolution in Iraq and Europe.

We dive into:

  • The Belitung shipwreck treasure
  • Samarra excavations full of Chinese shards
  • How Islamic potters invented tin-glaze to copy that whiteness
  • The massive scale of 9th-century trade

Subscribe for more raw history deep dives blending East and West.


Sources:

  • Belitung shipwreck (Tang treasure ship)
  • Samarra archaeological finds
  • Ashmolean & British Museum collections
]]> Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:20:49 -0800 Indy900 Media Indy900 Media 836 In the late-night deep dive, we explore how pristine Chinese porcelain from the Tang and Song dynasties traveled the Silk Road and Indian Ocean and sparked a ceramic revolution in Iraq and Europe.

We dive into:

  • The Belitung shipwreck treasure
  • Samarra excavations full of Chinese shards
  • How Islamic potters invented tin-glaze to copy that whiteness
  • The massive scale of 9th-century trade

Subscribe for more raw history deep dives blending East and West.


Sources:

  • Belitung shipwreck (Tang treasure ship)
  • Samarra archaeological finds
  • Ashmolean & British Museum collections
]]> chinese porcelain islamic world, tang song porcelain, silk road trade, abbasid pottery, belitung shipwreck, samarra excavations, islamic tin glaze, ancient trade routes, east west exchange, history of ceramics, chinese influence islam, indian ocean trade, medieval luxury goods No The Islamic Cobalt Blue That Created Ming China’s Iconic Porcelain 3 3 The Islamic Cobalt Blue That Created Ming China’s Iconic Porcelain full a32d2137-8f2a-4d7a-b058-fee03dedb649 https://share.transistor.fm/s/9c13b5dc In this late-night deep dive, we explore how the blue in your classic “Chinese” vase actually started in 9th-century Iraq. We examine into how Abbasid cobalt mastery traveled east via Mongol routes and birthed Yuan/Ming blue-and-white porcelain.

We explore:

  • Basra workshops and Persian cobalt mines
  • Mongol Pax Mongolica trade explosion
  • Reverse influence loop
  • Modern cobalt ties

Sources:

  • Qatar Museums cobalt collections
  • Jingdezhen porcelain history
  • Ilkhanid hybrid wares
]]> In this late-night deep dive, we explore how the blue in your classic “Chinese” vase actually started in 9th-century Iraq. We examine into how Abbasid cobalt mastery traveled east via Mongol routes and birthed Yuan/Ming blue-and-white porcelain.

We explore:

  • Basra workshops and Persian cobalt mines
  • Mongol Pax Mongolica trade explosion
  • Reverse influence loop
  • Modern cobalt ties

Sources:

  • Qatar Museums cobalt collections
  • Jingdezhen porcelain history
  • Ilkhanid hybrid wares
]]> Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:20:29 -0800 Indy900 Media Indy900 Media 798 In this late-night deep dive, we explore how the blue in your classic “Chinese” vase actually started in 9th-century Iraq. We examine into how Abbasid cobalt mastery traveled east via Mongol routes and birthed Yuan/Ming blue-and-white porcelain.

We explore:

  • Basra workshops and Persian cobalt mines
  • Mongol Pax Mongolica trade explosion
  • Reverse influence loop
  • Modern cobalt ties

Sources:

  • Qatar Museums cobalt collections
  • Jingdezhen porcelain history
  • Ilkhanid hybrid wares
]]> No Abbasid Lusterware: How 9th-Century Baghdad Made Pottery Shine Like Gold 1 1 Abbasid Lusterware: How 9th-Century Baghdad Made Pottery Shine Like Gold full 7bd61c9c-4944-4b2a-be89-0543a151caf7 https://share.transistor.fm/s/be488577 In this late-night deep dive, we explore how Abbasid potters in 9th-century Baghdad and Basra invented lusterware — pottery that gleams like real gold and silver through secret kiln alchemy.

We cover:

  • The metallic magic of reduction firing and nanoparticles
  • Influences from Sassanian silver and Byzantine enamels
  • Why Harun al-Rashid gifted these to Charlemagne
  • Connections from the House of Wisdom to modern tech coatings

Part of a series on Islamic ceramics and East-West exchange.


Sources & further reading:

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art lusterware collection
  • British Museum Abbasid ceramics
  • “Islamic Pottery: A Brief History” – Ashmolean Museum


#IslamicCeramics #Abbasid #Baghdad #Lusterware #HistoryDeepDive

]]> In this late-night deep dive, we explore how Abbasid potters in 9th-century Baghdad and Basra invented lusterware — pottery that gleams like real gold and silver through secret kiln alchemy.

We cover:

  • The metallic magic of reduction firing and nanoparticles
  • Influences from Sassanian silver and Byzantine enamels
  • Why Harun al-Rashid gifted these to Charlemagne
  • Connections from the House of Wisdom to modern tech coatings

Part of a series on Islamic ceramics and East-West exchange.


Sources & further reading:

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art lusterware collection
  • British Museum Abbasid ceramics
  • “Islamic Pottery: A Brief History” – Ashmolean Museum


#IslamicCeramics #Abbasid #Baghdad #Lusterware #HistoryDeepDive

]]> Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:20:17 -0800 Indy900 Media Indy900 Media 1044 In this late-night deep dive, we explore how Abbasid potters in 9th-century Baghdad and Basra invented lusterware — pottery that gleams like real gold and silver through secret kiln alchemy.

We cover:

  • The metallic magic of reduction firing and nanoparticles
  • Influences from Sassanian silver and Byzantine enamels
  • Why Harun al-Rashid gifted these to Charlemagne
  • Connections from the House of Wisdom to modern tech coatings

Part of a series on Islamic ceramics and East-West exchange.


Sources & further reading:

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art lusterware collection
  • British Museum Abbasid ceramics
  • “Islamic Pottery: A Brief History” – Ashmolean Museum


#IslamicCeramics #Abbasid #Baghdad #Lusterware #HistoryDeepDive

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