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The Making of the Arabs

Between Two Worlds

The City Victorious?

The Power of the Word

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New Knowledge for Old

Ways of Faith

The Shadow of the West

Building a Nation

Family Ties

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The Arabs: A Living History

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New Knowledge for Old

Season 1 · Episode 5

900 years ago Arab Muslims were the world’s greatest seekers after knowledge and wisdom of the Greeks. Today that Arab scholarship is a natural part of the inheritance of all scientists and thinkers, not least of the modern generation of Arab research-workers, many of whom work in the new Institutes in the Gulf States which we visit in the course of this film. Abdulhamid Sabra, himself an historian of science, stresses the need for all modern societies to recognise and embrace their own scientific and cultural heritage. Only forty years ago Kuwait was dominantly a small community of traders, fishermen and pearl divers on the Eastern fringe of the Arab world. But there was already the promise of oil. The oil-generated wealth of the past twenty years has transformed Kuwait into a thriving, modern city state with highest per capita income in the world.

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The Arabs: A Living History

TV Series

197950m

Documentary

Now playing

New Knowledge for Old

Season 1 · Episode 5

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