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7 episodes in this season

Between Two Rivers

57 min

The Triumph Of Monotheism

57 min

A Force From The Desert

57 min

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The Muslim Renaissance

57 min

The Asian Crucible

57 min

The Rise Of The Ottomans

57 min

The Ottomans And The West

57 min

East To West

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The Muslim Renaissance

Season 1 · Episode 4 · Sep 8, 2012

In this film we will reveal how a golden age of invention and scholarship thrived in the Islamic World at a time when Europe lingered in a dark age; how Muslim scholars brought together for the first time the ideas of the Greeks and Romans with Persian and Indian mathematics and astronomy and developed it into the beginnings of modern Science. We will reveal the first contacts by which European scholars discovered this treasury of knowledge and how it was developed by generations of Arab-admirers (including Galileo & Copernicus) into modern science. This episode focuses on the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, the great university mosques of Cairo and uncovers ancient documents translated in Baghdad by Islamic scholars, now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

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East To West

TV Series

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The Muslim Renaissance

Season 1 · Episode 4 · Sep 8, 2012

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