Documentary Review:Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain

  

Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain

Language: English
Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
DVD Release Date: September 1, 2007
Run Time: 117 minutes
Actors: Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Brian Catlos, Chris Lowney, Mustapha Kamal
Directors: Robert Gardner
Format: Digital Sound, NTSC, Widescreen
Description

Over a thousand years ago, the sun-washed land of southern Spain was home to Jews, Christians, and Muslims, living together and flourishing. Their culture 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.

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