The Crescent and the Cross - Part One

09/11/2009 23 min

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Episode Synopsis

The Crescent and the Cross, a four-part series, presented by Owen Bennett-Jones, examines several turning points in the relationship between Christianity and Islam covering Muslim Spain, the Crusades, the Ottoman Empire and the struggle for Africa.
Part One starts by look going back over 1,000 years ago, in what we now call Spain, but was then known as al-Andalus.