The Falcon of Quraish

The Falcon of Quraish

The rise of a dynasty, the fall of an empire.

Limited Series 2002 · 30 eps · ★ 9.5 · War & Politics, Drama

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When the Abbasids overthrow the Umayyad Caliphate in Damascus, slaughtering nearly the entire dynasty, one young prince escapes — Abd al-Rahman. Hunted across deserts and seas, he eventually reaches the fringes of the Muslim world and, through sheer will and political genius, founds a new Umayyad emirate in Andalusia. Written by Walid Seif and directed by Hatem Ali, this is the first chapter of their celebrated Andalusian trilogy — epic, human and historically meticulous.

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