Un empire surgi des sables
Subtitle: 1 : Il etait une fois Bagdad : An empire rises from the sands : 1 : Once upon a time, Baghdad
By: un film concu et ecrit par Mahmoud Hussein ; realise? par Philippe Calderon ; une coproduction FIT Production ... [et al.]
Contributors: Rodinson, Maxime; FIT Production (Firm); Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Series: Lorsque le monde parlait arabe = When the world spoke Arabic : the Golden Age of Arabic Civilization; Lorsque le monde parlait arabe; HIS 433 (NU course)
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng; fre
Format: [videorecording] =
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: History; Sassanids
Other titles: Title on container and disc label: Once upon a time:; Baghdad during the Abbasid dynasty; Etait fois Bagdad; Once upon a time, Baghdad
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. Nodes 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"--Container.
Notes: Originally produced as a documentary in 1999.

Commentary in French with English subtitles, narration in English.

Photography, Lionel Jan Kerquistel ; editor, Christian Billette ; music, Bernhard Eisner ; narrator, Paul Barrett.

Commentary, Maxime Rodinson.

DVD-Video.