Islam as memory

From Isfahan to Sidi Bouzid, via Jerusalem, Cordoba, Dubai… the film invites viewers on a journey through Islam. Islam with a capital I, as Abdelwahab Meddeb was keen to promote. The director continues along the path laid out by the late Franco-Tunisian poet and intellectual, for whom ‘one of the ways to combat fundamentalism is to recognise Islam’s complexity and its contributions to universality’. A journey between past and present, history and politics, music and poetry.