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Review: “The Sacred City” (2016)

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 June 2025

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This entry was posted in Film Review, History of Islam and tagged Abbasid Revolution, Abbasids, Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, Abd al-Malik, Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr, Abu al-Faraj, Adur Gushnasp, Aeneid, al-Bayt al-Haram, al-Masjid al-Haram, Al-Muwahhidun, Al-Qifti, Al-Tabari, Almohads, Amr ibn al-As, Arab Empire, Bakka, Banu Qurayza, Battle of Yamama, Becca, Bible, Christianity, Christians, Constantine the Great, Dan Gibson, Emperor Constantine, Fatimid Caliphate, Fatimids, Gethsemane, Golgotha, Gregory Bar Hebraeus, Hadith, Hebrew Bible, Hijaz, Holy Land, Iberia, Ioudaismos, Ishmaelites, ISIS, Islam, Islamic extremism, Islamic history, Islamic State, Islamic Tradition, Ismailis, Israel, Jerusalem, Jesus, Jews, Kaaba, ka’ba, Khalid ibn al-Walid, Kufa, Library of Alexandria, Livy, Mecca, Medina, Millat Ibrahim, Minha, Mongols, monotheism, myth, Ottoman Empire, pagan temples, paganism, pagans, Petra, Prophet Muhammad, Qibla, Qur’an, Rashidun Caliph, Revisionist School of Islamic Studies, Ridda Wars, Romulus and Remus, Sacred House, Sacred Place of Prostration, Saint Paul, Saladin, Saudi Arabia, Second Fitna, Spain, Syriac Orthodox Church, Tanakh, Tarikh al-Hukama, The Sacred City, Umar I, Umar ibn al-Khattab, Umayyad Caliphate, Umayyads, Virgil, Wahhabis, Wahhabism, Zoroastrianism, Zoroastrians on June 26, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

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