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Director : Philip Calderon
Production : FIT institution with the participation of Osmane Munif AIDI Foundation for Heritage, Culture, and Sciences/ 1997-1998
Duration : 7 hours in 12 episodes
This record film consists of 12 episodes, the length of each one is 36
minutes. Important parts of the film were pictured in Syria, in addition
to Spain, Egypt and many other Arab countries, towns and capitals.
The film recorded the achievements of the Arabs in the field of sciences
like arithmetic, algebra, mathematics, medicine, the science of
medication, astrology, music, singing, poetry, criticism and philosophy. |
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It spoke about the most famous Arab
scientists like Al Khawarezmi, Ibn
Al-Haytham and Avicenna.
The film pictures the openness of the Arabs to the
cultures of other nations, and how they took the sciences of other
people and preserved and added to them, and translated the works of
their philosophers and scientists like Aristotle, Plato, Ptolemy,
Archimedes and Euclid.
The film also speaks about the role of the Arab civilization in the
European renaissance in the middle ages when the sciences of the Arab
were translated to Latin and had deep impacts on their scientists and
intellectuals like Bacon, Galilee, Petrarch and Thomas Akwini and
others.
The viewer of this film will discover that the Arabs have developed a
cultural vision based on reason and freedom of choice, and the
distinction between the reasoning of the power and the philosophical
contemplations.
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