East To West (2012)
This six-part series tells the story of the birth and flourishing of civilisation in the Middle East and its huge influence on the West. From the foundation of science, monotheism, commerce, justice, civil rights and artistic expression - look Eastward. The series contends that history that starts from an ancient Greek perspective distorts the true path of civilisation. For crucial phases in world history, the political, economic and cultural centre was the Middle East.
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1. Between Two Rivers2012-03-06 · 57mThis episode follows the birth of civilization in Anatolia and the Middle East. We go back to the very beginnings; hunter-gatherers pause in Gobekli Tepe and start to build the wor
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2. The Triumph Of Monotheism2012-04-06 · 57mToday one god is worshipped by two thirds of humanity. It is the culmination of an extraordinary story by which a single deity emerged from a pantheon of thousands in the crucible
- 3 3. A Force From The Desert2012-10-20 · 57mWe trace the origins of the Arabs and Islam, from nomadic Bedouins to the sophisticated Nabataean cultures at Petra and the magnificent city of Palmyra. We then follow the story of
- 4 4. The Muslim Renaissance2012-09-08 · 57mIn 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 tog
- 5 5. The Asian Crucible2012-11-03 · 57mThis spectacular episode explores the extraordinary powers and civilizations that have emerged from central Asia. First the Seljuk Turks took on the Byzantines, pushing their way i
- 6 6. The Rise Of The Ottomans2012-09-15 · 57mAt the time of Elizabeth I, the greatest power in the world was not England, France or Florence, it was the Ottoman Empire – one of the world’s first truly global and multicultural
- 7 7. The Ottomans And The West2012-09-15 · 57mThe film looks at the wider Ottoman world, taking in superb merchants’ houses in Birgi (Anatolia) and Damascus. At the edge of empire, on the Persian border near Mt Ararat, we disc
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Khalid AbdallaSelf
Bettany HughesSelfKlaus SchmidtSelf
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