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Director(s):
BOUCHERON (PATRICK), VAN WAEREBEKE (DENIS)
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Producer(s):
ARTE FRANCE, FILMS D'ICI (LES)
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Territories:
Worldwide.
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Production year:
2020
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Language(s):
German, English, French
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Rights:
TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD
The Arab chronicles of the fourteenth century bristle with a rumor: from the farthest lands to the west of the known world, across the Sahara desert, a black emperor and his court crossed the lands of Islam on a pilgrimage to Mecca, staying in what was at the time the capital of the Islamic world, Cairo.
Flowing with gold and precious gifts, this demonstration of power and symbols revealed to the Muslim world, shaken by the power of nomads from the steppes of Mongolian Central Asia and later Turkey, that the spread of the revelation of Muhammad had built a hinterland that was also the main source of gold and slaves for the empires.