{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Reasoning with Mustapha","title":"The Forgotten Architects, EPS #1: \"The World Before the Light\"","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":726,"description":"Algebra. The names of stars. The number 7 itself. All three trace back to the same civilization — and most people have never heard the full story.\nThis episode starts further back than you'd expect: the mathematics of ancient Babylon, the medicine of ancient Egypt, and the systematic inquiry the Greeks built starting in the 6th century BCE. Then it follows what happened when that knowledge began to fracture in the West — and where it actually went instead of disappearing.\nThis is Episode 1 of The Forgotten Architects, a 10-part series. Episode 2, \"The House of Wisdom,\" continues the story.\n \nCome to think of it.\nReasoning with Mustapha explores history, faith, and culture through honest, long-form conversation — less about conclusions, more about asking better questions.\nSOURCES — EPISODE 1: \"The World Before the Light\"\nThis episode is built on:\n - Jim al-Khalili — The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance (Penguin, 2011)\n - Jonathan Lyons — The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization (Bloomsbury, 2009)\n - David C. Lindberg — The Beginnings of Western Science (University of Chicago Press, 2007)\n\nDirectly quoted:\n - John William Draper — History of the Intellectual Development of Europe (1863)\nThe Forgotten Architects is built entirely from published scholarship — academic histories and primary texts — not from open encyclopedias or unverified web sources.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/d6jzIgUKfBsKBMg0WDtNrHPmucKP0_zRyYT8gi9-2rs/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hNWRj/Y2UyYjM2MzE1YzQy/NmUzODgwYmI2NTAx/MThjYS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}