Empires - Islam: Empire of Faith | Ben Kingsley

Empires - Islam: Empire of Faith | Ben Kingsley | Deep drilling into Islam

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Empires - Islam: E...

	Empires - Islam: Empire of Faith Ben Kingsley PBS Paramount, 2005 average customer review:based on 104 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

ISLAM: EMPIRE OF FAITH, a three-part series, re-creates the spectacular sweep of Islamic power and faith during its first 1,000 years, from Muhammad's birth to the Ottoman Empire under Suleyman the Magnificent. Evocative re-enactments and art, artifacts, and architecture combine with scholarly interviews to recount the rise and glory of Islamic civilization. DVD includes behind-the-scenes look at the making of ISLAM and producer's commentary

Energy !!!

Islam is not only a religion!!!
Islam is not only a religion!!!
Islam is not only a religion!!!
Islam is Energy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Zeyad

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Deep drilling into Islam

This DVD shows the points of view of many professors and specialists about Islam. It also shows the begining of Islam and how was it prevalenced through Mecca. The DVD talks about the difficulties of the journey of the prophet Mohammad (pbuh), and then the triumph of spredaing Islam in the Arabian peninsula, and then to the whole wide world.

staid, purposefully stilted, but informative.

Colorful and informative, "Islam: Empire of Faith" is really about a major branch of Islamic Civilization, and less about Islam the faith. The approach is a bit staid, which isn't unusual given that it's a PBS documentary. However it still provides a lot of information - information one rarely gets outside of academic circles - and as such serves as a kind of balance for the highly negative view of Islamic culture that predominates in the West. That said I do agree with those that point out that the parallel development of Shi'ite culture doesn't get enough treatment, and one could argue that Americans really need a good, reliable and balanced picture of that world, explaining the roots of Shi'ite resentment against the West. And to those who argue that this documentary wasn't sufficiently pejorative I would say that with so much anti-Muslim material in the media, there's a greater need for media like this, to give us all a bigger picture, from which to form our own opinions on how to regard the Muslim world today.

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