Multimedia Collection
Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain
DVD
116 min
2007
DP101 .C585 2007 DVD
A thousand years ago in the sun washed lands of Southern Spain, Muslims, Christians and Jews lived together and thrived. Their cultures and beliefs intertwined and the knowledge of the ancients was gathered and reborn. Here were the very seeds of the Renaissance. But this world too quickly vanished. Greed, fear, and intolerance swept it away. Puritanical judgments and absolutism snuffed out the light of learning. Within a few centuries, the fragile union of these people dissipated like smoke. The time of tolerance was lost forever. What can we learn from this time? Must history repeat itself?
Narrator: Sam Mercurio. First broadcast on August 22, 2007 on PBS.
Distributed by Unity Productions Foundation (www.islamicspain.tv).
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