The Umayyads of Cordoba

Abd al Rahman I, survivor of the Abbasid revolution, crosses to Iberia and founds an emirate that will light Europe for centuries.

Fleeing the fall of his house in Damascus, the young prince crossed North Africa in disguise and won Cordoba, earning the name al Dakhil, the one who entered. He planted in Andalus the palm of his homeland and the seeds of a state whose gardens, libraries and poets would be the wonder of the western world.