Videos - YouTube - BBC - An Islamic History of Europe

I found this interesting video (documentary) when I browsing YouTube. Just to share it here…

This is only the first part of the video but you can go to youtube and watch other parts (total of 12) from the “related video” section… I cannot embeded them here because they’ll change my layout…

Part 1 - http://youtube.com/watch?v=DRSEFMCqK7I
Part 2 - http://youtube.com/watch?v=OHwL_eUAFx0
Part 3 - http://youtube.com/watch?v=u2H_M4zCbbA
Part 4 - http://youtube.com/watch?v=pxPD5_d31a0
Part 5 - http://youtube.com/watch?v=0YyJ-ulwKqc
Part 6 - http://youtube.com/watch?v=aIlH4r1e1yo
Part 7 - http://youtube.com/watch?v=gUxE_CSgqd4
Part 8 - http://youtube.com/watch?v=o6epKHCHD4s
Part 9 - http://youtube.com/watch?v=0kWywCj7U80
Part 10 - http://youtube.com/watch?v=CAFOdSdv4lc
Part 11 - http://youtube.com/watch?v=yF-13hOsm3c
Part 12 - http://youtube.com/watch?v=eCH5UMgBnFc

from “About the Video Section” in Youtube…

In this 90-minute documentary, Rageh Omaar uncovers the hidden story of Europe’s Islamic past and looks back to a golden age when European civilization was enriched by Islamic learning.
Rageh travels across medieval Muslim Europe to reveal the vibrant civilization that Muslims brought to the West.
This evocative film brings to life a time when emirs and caliphs dominated Spain and Sicily and Islamic scholarship swept into the major cities of Europe.
His journey reveals the debt owed to Islam for its vital contribution to the European Renaissance

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