Product Review

Current events come into focus in the back drop of 1,400 years of history-changing events. Within 100 years of Mohammed's death Muslim warriors were just outside of Paris having conquered North Africa, the Holy Land, Persia and Spain. From the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, the Umayyed Muslim Caliphate, and later the Ottoman Empire, were for centuries the largest empires in the world. Find the answers to how Islam is connected to: Arabian Horses; Stirrups for riding; the Slave Trade; Charles Martel and the Battle of Tours; The Byzantine Empire; Santa Claus; Richard the Lionheart; the word "assassin"; the Seven Churches of Revelation; Marco Polo; Dracula; Vlad the Impaler; Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent; Islam's Treatment of Women; James Oglethorpe, Georgia's Founder; Coffee and Croissants; Jefferson and Madison's War with North African Barbary Pirates; Sir Lawrence of Arabia; Woodrow Wilson's attempt to save Armenia; Oil discovered in Saudi Arabia; Wahhabism. No one knows the inner workings and history of islam like William J. Federer. You'll learn many things on this DVD that you'e never heard anywhere else. Combined with his previous book on the the What Every American Should Know About Quran, these two products will provide you with all the information you'll need to understand Islam, past, present and FUTURE! A great educational DVD and extremely well documented. DVD, five 30 minute episodes, 150 minutes