Islamic Conquest Past and Present (DVD) Bill Federer

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 Umayyad Muslim Caliphate, and later the Ottoman Empire, were for centuries the largest empires in the world.

Find 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”
• Seven Churches of Revelation
• Marco Polo
• Dracula—“Vlad the Impaler”
• Sultan Suleiman the Magnificient
• 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

Chapters

1. Mohammed’s military career, Islam’s conquests and the Renaissance
2. Islamic expansion, the Crusades, and Tamerlane
3. Fall of Constantinople and Columbus’ voyage
4. Muslim pirates, Martin Luther, John Smith, and the Pilgrims
5. Is the United States becoming a Dhimmi nation?