Forgetting arabic
Subtitle: Oublier l'arabe
By: un film conçu et écrit par Mahmoud Hussein ; réalisé par Philippe Calderon ; une co-production FIT Production, La Cinquième, Canal Sur Televisión.
Contributors: Hussein, Mahmoud.; Calderon, Philippe.; FIT Production (Firm); Cinquième (Firm); Canal Sur Televisión (Firm); Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Series: Lorsque le monde parlait arabe = When the world spoke Arabic -- 12.; Lorsque le monde parlait arabe -- 12.
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Format: Videorecording
Number of pages: 27
Subjects: Civilization, Islamic.; Civilization, Medieval.; Philosophy, Arab -- History.; Documentary films.
Other titles: Europe on the cusp of the Renaissance.; Europe awakes : "forgetting Arabic"; Oublier l'arabe.; Eveil de l'Europe.; Forgetting the arabs : Europe on the cusp of the Renaissance.
Description: "Why was Islamic philosophy, once the epitome of learning, eventually rejected by Muslims? And why, after assimilating it, did Europeans distance themselves from its formulators? This program seeks to understand the religious climate of the late Middle Ages, in which universities and madrassas became centers of power and models for evolving sociopolitical systems. The potentially heretical nature of philosophy is also analyzed--in Islamic lands the djinni of intellectuality was put back in the bottle, but in Christendom it escaped the control of those who used it, paving the way for Renaissance humanism"--Films for the Humanities & Sciences web site.
Notes: "11422-A-NT"--Cassette; "BVL11422"--Publisher's web site.

Film originally produced in 1999.

Narrated by Paul Barrett.

VHS format.

Narration in English.  Interviews in various languages with English subtitles.

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