PBS Special - Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain (2007.HDTV.SoS)

Originally aired: 2007.08.27

"Over a thousand years ago, the sun-washed lands of Southern Spain were home to Muslims, Christians and Jews 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 and the time of tolerance was lost forever.

'Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall' of Islamic Spain takes viewers on an epic journey back into one of the most fascinating and important periods of world history. It tells a story of vital importance for our contemporary world about the triumphs and shortcomings, achievements and ultimate failures of a centuries-long period when Muslims, Christians and Jews inhabited the same far corner of Western Europe and built a society that lit the Dark Ages."

more info: http://www.upf.tv/upf06/Projects/MuslimSpain/MuslimSpainintro/tabid/78/Default.aspx
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Runtime: 1:54:50
Source: OTA High Definition 1080i
Encoding: xvid.720x416.1355kbps.mp3.160.vbr
File Size: 1.2GB

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