- Title: Mirrors Of Paradise
- Date: 7th January 1992
- Summary: A FILM ABOUT THE LEGACY OF ISLAMIC SPAIN, ONE OF THE GREAT MEDIEVAL CIVIL- IZATIONS WHICH FLOURISHED FOR 800 YEARS BEFORE THE FALL OF GRANADA TO THE CHRISTIANS IN JANUARY 1492, AND THE SIMULTANEOUS EXPULSION OF ALL JEWS WHO REFUSED TO CONVERT. THROUGH POETRY, ARACHITECTURE, PAINTING, LANDSCAPE, GARDAENS, FOOD, MUSIC, AND WITH A VARIETY OF CONTRIBUTIONS FROM CRAFTSMEN TO SCHOLARS, THIS FILM BRINGS TO LIFE SOMETHING OF THAT ASTONISHING PERIOD OF CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS CO-EXISTENCE BETWEEN MUSLIM, JEW AND CHRISTIAN WHICH SO INFLUENCED THE LATER EUROPEAN RENAISSANCE. IT FINALLY ENDED IN 1492, A MOMENT STILL TRAGICALLY RESONATIANG 500 YEARS LATER IN THE INTOLERANT POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS DIVISIONS OF THE MODERN WORLD.
- Description:DID EUROPE JETTISON A HIGHER DEGREE OF CULTURE WHEN IT JETTISONED THE MOORS FROM SPAIN?
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:DIBB DIRECTIONS LTD
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:07/01/1992
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s