Les Arabes entrent en scène
Subtitle: The Arabs make their entrance : un film
By: conçu et écrit par Mahmoud Hussein ; réalisé par Philippe Calderon ; une coproduction FIT Production ... [et al.]
Contributors: Hussein, Mahmoud.; Calderon, Philippe.; Rodinson, Maxime.; FIT Production (Firm); Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Series: Lorsque le monde parlait arabe = -- when the world spoke Arabic; Lorsque le monde parlait arabe
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Format: Videorecording
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Documentary films.; Islamic Empire -- History.
Other titles: Arabs make their entrance : Islam and empire.; Empire surgi des sables.; Empire rises from the sands.
Description: "As the shadow of the Dark Ages fell across Europe, the scene for the advancement of Western civilization shifted to the Near East. This program charts the rise of the Arab empire from its roots in the long-standing rivalry between the Byzantines and the Sassanids. Notes along that timeline include the dual role of Mecca as a place of worship and as a center for trade, the life of Muhammad and the birth of Islam, the rapid expansion of Arabia at the expense of Byzantium and the Sassanid kingdom, and the internecine struggle between Arab factions that led to the founding of the Umayyad dynasty"--Publisher's website.
Notes: Image, Lionel Jan Kerquistel ; music, Bernhard Eisner.

Interviewee, Maxime Rodinson.

MMS copy: Public performance rights included; not for broadcasting for distance learning.