The torchbearers

Duration: 0:25:07

Genre: Educational | Ethnographic | Historical | Religious

Year Published: 1984

Creator: Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation: Distributor | Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Illustrates how Islam helped bridge the 800-year gap between the fall of Rome and the onset of the European Renaissance. Describes how in the expanded Islamic empire, Muslim, Jewish, and Christian scholars learned about culture from all points of the known world. Tells how these scholars then passed along this historical information together with new scientific discoveries and helped make the period of Islamic dominance the "torchbearer" of advanced civilization and culture.

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