Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain

A thousand years ago in the sun washed lands of Southern Spain, Muslims, Christians and Jews lived together and thrived. Their cultures and beliefs intertwined and the knowledge of the ancients was gathered and reborn. Here were the very seeds of the Renaissance. But this world too quickly vanished. Creed, fear, and intolerance swept it away. Puritanical judgements and absolutism snuffed out the light of learning. Within a few centuries, the fragile union of these people dissipate like smoke. The time of tolerance was lost forever. What can we learn from this time? Must history repeat itself?