Al-Andalus: The Heritage of Islamic Spain - Region 0

This program is based on the 1992 exhibition "Al Andalus, Islamic Art In Spain", held in Granada and New York. It depicts the extraordinary artistic and cultural achievements of Islam in the Iberian peninsula and the Maghrib in the years 711 to 1492. This Islamic heritage is presented by Mohammed, a learned man of the Nazari court, providing a retrospective account staged on the eve of Granada's conquest. His story takes us back to the Cordoba of Caliph Abd-el-Raman III. Taifa's kingdom in Saragossa, Almohade marrakesh and the imposing Granada of the Nazari.