Inside Islam: Part 5: Light of Allah Shining Throughout Europe, Andalucia
year:
2007
director:
unknown
type:
dvd
language:
English
countries:
Morocco
countries:
Spain (105 mins) In 711 A.D. the Moroccan Islamic army crossed the strait of Gibraltar and reached Tarifa, a port at the edge of the European continent, and began a rule of more than 800 years. Those years of Islamic rule left unique traces of its culture in the Andalusia region of Spain. Now, Southern Spain has a complex history having absorbed the influences from not only Islam but from the Romans and Christianity. Cordoba became a symbolic city mixing the various influences and now has a culture unique to Spain. Does that cultural development continue today?