Kairouan - part 1

Collection title

Memories of a city

ID

TUN00184

Source

TT (TN)

First broadcast date

11/01/2012

Production year

2012

Abstract

The word Kairouan is a persian word. It has been adopted by the Arabs and means "place of weapons", "place where the caravans go to relax" or "place of meeting during the war". The historian relates that the constructions of Kairouan, as the islamic minaret , are visited by the travellers of the knowledge to learn the charia and the sciences of the Quran. Kairouan has played an important role during the Islamic Fath and represent their starting-point to go to Spain, Morocco, Algeria and the South Africa. It is also the sanctuary of numerous companions of the prophet.

Type

video

Production companies

• Tunisian TV - Coproduction
• Ennaser Company - Coproduction

Broadcaster

Télévision Tunisienne - Télévision Tunisienne 1

Audiovisual form

Documentary

Personalities

• Abdeljawad Lotfy

Primary theme

Arab and muslim worlds

Secondary themes

• Tourism and cultural sites / Archaeological sites

Credits / Cast

• El Hammi Wajdi - Director
• Kitari Amal - Speaker
• Al-Rabi'i Dhia' Eddin - Journalist
• Jamal Ebtissam - Author of original work

Period of events

• 2012

Map locations

• Tunisia - North - Kairouan

Original language

Arabic

Media running time

16m25

Additional information

Kairouan was founded in about the year 670 (the hijri year 50). Uqba Ibnou Nafeâ wanted a fondation which could be a strategic place where muslims could settle in. He was afraid of the fact that Africans could give up Islam if they lived by themselves.