Irán 1979, la revolución de los ayatolás - Ep...

En la biografía de Johann Strauss (1825-1889), más conocido como Johann Strauss hijo, hay una historia verdaderamente curiosa. Y es que además de los problemas respiratorios y bronquiales que padeció durante su madurez, desarrolló una pequeña colección de fobias. Al rey del vals ...  Show more

La tradición musical austriaca es indiscutible y admirable: Mozart, Haydn, Schubert, los Strauss o los alemanes Gluck, Beethoven y Brahms que se integraron a la perfección en el ambiente vienés... vals, polca, galop... Klimt, Zweig... el Imperio de Francisco José I, Sisi... la Óp ...  Show more

Throughout the 19th century, Iran was a pawn of the great colonial powers. It failed to industrialise, its economy stagnated, and resentment at foreign interference grew. This came to a head in 1906 with the Constitutional Revolution - a liberal movement that aimed to reform Iran ...  Show more

In the 7th century, a new empire rose from the sands of Arabia - united by faith, driven by conquest, and destined to change history forever.In this episode of The Ancients, Tristan Hughes is joined by Dr Khododad Rezakhani to explore the emergence of Islam from the ashes of Rome ...  Show more

1979 was the year that set the Islamic world on the path to today. In Iran, the revolution established the nation as a theocracy that sought to defend Shi'ism across the world. In Saudi Arabia, the siege of the Holy Mosque led to the nation embracing a more radical Sunni Islam th ...  Show more

How did the great divide within Islam, the split between Sunni and Shia, develop? We trace how the great 16th century confrontation between the Ottomans of Turkey and the Safavids of Iran cemented what had previously been a much more porous division. Iran has been a Shia country ...  Show more