A Journey to Medina
Chapter 1
Story Time, Episode 6. Goes with Story of the World, Volume 2, chapters 6 and 7. About 4 minutes. Voices were made with ElevenLabs. The music box is played live by your browser. Turn Voices off to read the captions together at your own pace; each line still moves on by itself.
Where the facts come from
- Goes with Susan Wise Bauer, The Story of the World, Volume 2: The Middle Ages (Peace Hill Press), chapters 6 and 7. The story here is our own telling.
- Mecca and Medina, the Hijra of 622, the Islamic calendar, and the spread of Islam to Spain by 711: Hugh Kennedy, The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates, 3rd ed. (Routledge, 2016), and The Great Arab Conquests (Da Capo, 2007).
- Muhammad is not pictured anywhere in this story, following the respectful convention.
- Scripture: John 3:16, King James Version.
- Made with: hand-written JavaScript on an HTML canvas; voices from ElevenLabs, including real child-character voices for the kids; music played live by the browser's Web Audio.