🎴 Stories in twelve cards

A museum story told in twelve picture cards — press play and it reads itself to you, one card at a time.

• 🎴 A Cave in Thawr

  Three days inside the mountain while the search circled them — the story of Thawr's cave in twelve cards.

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• 🎴 Al-Khwarizmi's Book

  A small book from Baghdad that changed the world's arithmetic — the story of algebra in twelve cards.

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• 🎴 Al-Zahrawi's Instruments

  Cordoba's surgeon who taught the world surgery — his instruments in twelve cards.

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• 🎴 Fatima al-Fihri's Mosque

  A woman from Tunis who built the world's oldest university in Fez — in twelve cards.

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• 🎴 First Revelation in Hira

  In the cave of Hira the Word began — the story of the first revelation in twelve cards.

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• 🎴 Ibn al-Haytham's Dark Room

  The scientist who proved how we see — in twelve cards.

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• 🎴 Ibn Battuta's First Journey

  A young man from Tangier left for the Hajj and became history's greatest traveller — in twelve cards.

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• 🎴 Mansa Musa's Caravan

  The richest man in history crossing the desert to Makkah — in twelve cards.

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• 🎴 Sinan's First Mosque

  The Anatolian boy who became the Ottomans' greatest architect — in twelve cards.

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• 🎴 The Ash-Shifa Manuscript

  Ibn Sina's greatest book — from Bukhara to Europe's libraries — in twelve cards.

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• 🎴 The Boy and the Monk

  A boy who believed in God and taught his people tawhid — told in twelve cards.

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• 🎴 The Constitution of Madinah

  The first written charter joining Madinah's Muslims, Jews and allies — in twelve cards.

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• 🎴 The Farewell Sermon

  On Arafat's mount the Prophet bade the people farewell and set out their faith — in twelve cards.

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• 🎴 The First Muezzin

  Bilal ibn Rabah — the first voice to raise the call to prayer — in twelve cards.

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• 🎴 The Hijra Route

  From Makkah to Madinah in eight nights — the journey that changed history, told in twelve cards.

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• 🎴 The House of Wisdom

  In Baghdad rose the greatest library and translation centre of its age — in twelve cards.

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• 🎴 The Paper of Baghdad

  From Samarqand to Baghdad — how paper reached the Islamic world and changed it — in twelve cards.

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• 🎴 The Samarkand Observatory

  A prince who measured the stars with a precision no one matched before the telescope — in twelve cards.

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• 🎴 The Year of Sorrow

  The year the Prophet lost his uncle Abu Talib and his wife Khadijah — in twelve cards.

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• 🎴 Umar's Jerusalem Walk

  The caliph walks to Jerusalem to take its keys himself — in twelve cards.

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