Pilgrims, Caliphs and Crusaders: From Mecca to the Exile from Spain

Support our stories: every donation is used to make more videos. Donated? Comment what you would like to see next and we will make it and dedicate it to you. Donate with PayPal or card: https://yspennstate.github.io/support... In the sixth century Mecca was a trading town in a barren valley of western Arabia, and at its centre stood the Kaaba, filled with the images of many gods. This film follows Muhammad from the cave outside Mecca to Medina and back; the caliphs, the battles of Yarmuk and Qadisiyyah, and Husayn's death at Karbala; the Sufis, from Rabia to al-Hallaj and Rumi; the monk Xuanzang's journey to India, the caves of Dunhuang and Zen; the Crusades, from Pope Urban's sermon at Clermont to Saladin; and the West of the cathedrals, Francis of Assisi, the Black Death and Jan Hus, down to 1492 and the Jews' exile from Spain. This film comes from The History of Religion, a series on our main channel, with a new opening so that it stands on its own. Chapters 0:00 An exile and a beginning 1:14 The recitation 8:22 The caliphs and the martyr of Karbala 15:20 The roads of the East 22:31 The Crusades 28:58 Cathedrals, plague and fire Music (our own piano recordings of public-domain scores, each piece played whole): Johann Sebastian Bach, Chorale fugue Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, BWV 689, Clavier-Übung III Johannes Brahms, Wie rafft ich mich auf in der Nacht, Op. 32 No. 1 Johann Sebastian Bach, Chorale prelude Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kam, BWV 684, Clavier-Übung III Ludwig van Beethoven, Das Liedchen von der Ruhe, Op. 52 No. 3 Johann Sebastian Bach, Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV 533, for organ Johann Jakob Froberger, Suite VII in E minor Gabriel Fauré, Après un rêve, Op. 7 No. 1 Arthur Sullivan, The Long Day Closes, part-song Johann Sebastian Bach, O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden, from the St Matthew Passion (under the opening and the credits) Photographs and paintings from Wikimedia Commons, some cropped to the frame: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Saudi Press Agency (SPA); Adli Wahid, edited by Basile Morin; Kaliper1; Safa.daneshvar; Alvaro.vinuela.carnicero; Baltazar Faunbäck; Sumitsurai; Rainer Halama; Slashme; Godot13; Ninaras; Diego Delso; Skot; Fernando CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Freedom's Falcon; Berthold Werner; José Luiz; Bernard Gagnon; Stephane D'Alu; Tournasol7; Adrian Michael; Matěj Baťha CC BY-SA 2.5 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Daniel Ventura; Luca Galuzzi ( Lucag ) CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... fairlybuoyant; Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Meshari Alawfi; Ahmed; Vyacheslav Argenberg; Acediscovery; Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021 CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Suresh Babunair CC BY 2.5 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Petr Vilgus CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Wal N.; Martijn.Munneke from Netherlands; David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada; Justine Hong; Afghanistan Matters from Brunssum, Netherlands; Ergo; upyernoz from Haverford, USA; Jorge Lascar; Elliott Brown from Birmingham, United Kingdom GFDL 1.2 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-lice... Ralf Roletschek CC0 or public domain: Gryffindor, TheHadiRahim, Arlo K. Abrahamson, U.S. Navy, Robert Clive (1827 - 1902), Maitham Ali, British Library, Sahibdin, Matson Collection, Kikar HaShabbat, Tteske, Giotto, Carlo Crivelli, Jan Matejko, anonymous, makers whose names are not known Paintings: Kamal ud-Din Behzad (attributed), Dancing Dervishes, folio from a Divan of Hafiz (CC0); unknown author, Portrait of Xuanzang carrying sutras, Tokyo National Museum (public domain); Hiroooooo, Reproduced Mural of 220 cave, Mogao caves, Dunhuang.jpg (CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... unknown artist, Arjuna and His Charioteer Krishna Confront Karna.jpg (public domain); Wmpearl, Krishna and Radha, Kangra school, watercolor and gold, Tokyo National Museum.JPG (CC0); Jean Fouquet, Saint Urbain II prêchant la croisade.jpg (public domain); Jean Colombe, Holy Lance Antioch.jpg (public domain); Giotto, The Renunciation of Worldly Goods, Legend of Saint Francis, Upper Basilica, Assisi (public domain); Pierart dou Tielt, The Flagellants at Tournai, 1349, chronicle of Gilles Li Muisis (public domain); Diebold Schilling the Elder, Jan Hus burned at Constance, Spiezer Chronik (public domain) The maps are drawn for the film from Natural Earth (public domain) and Terrain Tiles elevation data (SRTM, GMTED, ETOPO1). The narration and most of the pictures are made with AI; the photographs, the paintings and the maps are not.