Walk through time with Harmonia. Here the stories of History’s Arrow and The Golden Thread are woven together in the order they happened, so the seekers and the shapers of each age sit side by side. Choose an episode and let the centuries unfold, one after another.

Note to listenerthis sorting of our episodes is done by circa, but the original episodes were done in a random order - the intros and out roll comments will not agree with the presentation order here

  • The Hunger That Power Cannot Feed
    Circa: 750 - Ibrahim ibn Adham
  • The Fire of Love
    Circa: 752 - Rabi'a al-Adawiyya
  • Alcuin of York: The Teacher Who Saved Civilization
    Circa: 795 - Alcuin of York
  • Mandāravā: Fire Into Water
    Circa: 800 - Mandāravā
  • The Voice That Crossed the Sea
    Circa: 805 - Saichō
  • The Woman Who Built Her Own Tomb: Sayyida Nafisa and the Weight of True Authority
    Circa: 810 - Sayyida Nafisa
  • The House of Wisdom: What a City Chooses to Value
    Circa: 830 - House of Wisdom
  • Kassia: The Unfinished Hymn
    Circa: 840 - Kassia of Constantinople
  • Photios: Guardian of Memory
    Circa: 858 - Photios
  • Fatima al-Fihri: The Builder of Possibility
    Circa: 859 - Fatima al-Fihri
  • The House of Wisdom
    Circa: 860 - Hunayn ibn Ishaq
  • The Emperor Who Finished His Father's Law
    Circa: 892 - Leo VI the Wise
  • Kumudendu Muni
    Circa: 900 - Kumudendu Muni
  • The Physician Who Wrote for the Poor
    Circa: 900 - Abū Bakr al-Rāzī
  • The Fire That Did Not Go Out: Al-Hallaj and the Proof of the Soul
    Circa: 922 - Al-Hallaj
  • The Bridge of Córdoba
    Circa: 950 - Hasdai ibn Shaprut
  • The Moon Before the Sun
    Circa: 957 - Olga of Kiev
  • The Librarian's Hand: Lubna of Córdoba
    Circa: 965 - Lubna of Córdoba
  • The Library of Light
    Circa: 968 - Al-Hakam II
  • Lubna of Crdoba: Keeper of the Light
    Circa: 970 - Lubna of Córdoba
  • The Book of Light Flashes: How Abu Nasr as-Sarraj Named the Sufis
    Circa: 970 - Abu Nasr as-Sarraj
  • The Man Who Saw the Light: Symeon the New Theologian
    Circa: 985 - Symeon the New Theologian
  • The Missing Chapter
    Circa: 1000 - Al-Andalus, Moorish Spain
  • The Persian scholar Al-Biruni
    Circa: 1030 - Al-Biruni
  • The Boat to the Golden Island: Atiśa and the Courage to Seek
    Circa: 1042 - Atiśa