Islam: Empire of Faith

01:00:00 broke with that tradition.

01:07:38 Then a few years later it's in Egypt.

01:07:57 So, in other words, it was not only that paper was available.

01:08:21 of the Baghdad scholars.

01:08:43 with more than a hundred shops

01:09:05 paper enabled Islamic civilisation to spread its newfound knowledge far and wide

01:09:37 of thinking about the globe as a single unit... humanity.

01:10:08 Islamic culture would begin to have an effect

01:10:33 During the Dark Ages

01:11:03 "All these flowers everywhere, open streets

01:11:28 in what is now the great Roman Catholic cathedral in the middle of town.

01:11:56 you look out over this expanse of roof.

01:12:19 The kind of vaulting which is like this

01:12:38 Obviously, influenced by the Great Mosque of Cordoba in the south of Spain.

01:13:08 In the 10th century there was a Saxon nun

01:13:35 into the glorious Muslim cities of Southern Spain

01:14:03 ...of the Islamic architecture to most Westerners.

01:16:44 a tragedy in Jerusalem would put Muslims and European Christians

01:17:08 as simply insane.

01:17:42 Nobody knows quite why he did it

01:18:01 el-Hakim was the one exception and proved the rule for Christians

01:18:30 rebuilt the Church of the Holy Sepulchre...