At 2:22, I accidentally said that Ghalib was a Muladi. He was actually a Siqlabi. Also, the flag for the caliphate isn't accurate. I didn't realize that I used the wrong flag till it was very late to change it.
Also, you forgot about flags for the Taifas, but no big deal. Next time I suggest delaying it in case there is something you missed. A bad thing if worked on will eventually become good. But a bad thing rushed will always remain bad.
@@maikeliphillips850 He (and his son) elevated Al-Andalus to it's greatest heights, he dedicated all his life to his realm and made Cordoba the rnament of the world! His passion, his dedication, his struggles, his achivements. I can respect and admire all of that. Be inspierd by it even.
@@silveryuno And remember Andalusians were actually native iberians who were arabized, not some completely different people. It's part of your heritage too
@@gymrat5014 nop, iberia did not have a big population. After the Umayyad conquest, Arabs were moved from yemen hijaz levant iraq and north africa into the Iberian peninsula. And the arabs kept moving into Al Andalus throughout 800 years
@@Bibliotecanatalie How come Arabs left no genetic traces on the Iberian peninsula ? How come the Arabian peninsula which is a big f desert with the exception of yemeni highlands being somewhat fertile had a larger population than Iberia in a time when food from foreign countries wasn’t shipped to others? No one in his right mind can make such claims The conquest of Iberia was done by Arab berber leadership no one denies that Musa was an Arab although the soldiers were mostly Berber soldiers as Arab manpower was pretty low after all the wars in the East The vast Majority of Al Andalus was inhabited by Ethnic Iberians whom some of them mostly in the Roman urban South adopted an Arab identity. Most just led their everyday peasant life with pretty much no changes at all
Another great video, although your warning at the beginning makes me laugh. I'm Polish, I don't even know the meaning of "happy ending"! ;) I find the Saqaliba particularly interesting, mostly because the whole concept of slave-soldiers and their rise to power (similar to the Mameluks) seems so bizarre and kinda deliciously ironic to me. Plus, as their name itself suggests, they were mostly Slavic. Also, whenever you mention Muʿtazila it makes me think about an alternate timeline where it became and stayed the dominant school of Islam. How different the world would be now?
I've always found it ironic too. Although, I'm always rooting for the slave soldiers rising up because that just feels right. Mutazila school was good, the world could've been different in many ways.
Al-Mu'tazila were philosophers more than theologians. And with the chaotic nature of Islamic state craft, it was inevitable that the Mu'tazila would be persecuted and Islam would evolve to be more fundamentalist, since Muslim communities were plagued with internal strife ever since the Rashidun. However, if we would theoretically propose that Muslims would get their shit together and establish stable states. Islam under the Mu'tazilites would avoid the steep decline into fundamentalism and isolationism we see today.
Your videos are awesome man. I was lucky enough to attend a university with a huge library full of Middle Eastern textbooks. The true history is rarely discussed, but you're one point and do a great job.
Hahaha, you're not? Usually, with CKII, I'm depressed, possessed, leprous and my grand-nephew is plotting to kill me while my brother is already rebelling.
And....sources....I just looked for them. So much information...must show your sources. So we can look it up! There's five papers in here. Seriously...lol
I always forget that. My main source for this was Hugh Kennedy's Muslim Spain and Portugal and some minor sources here and there. Confirmed some of his sources too.
Hi, Great video! Like always. However, English is not my first nor even my second language. I got problems keeping up without reading subtitles. Your english subtitle is not properly timed, i think. Idk if it's just me. Please, kindly look into it when you have time. And thank you for making this channel. It changes how I see the history of the religion I thought i knew all my life. And all of the references--count olaf, shield, hydra, lannister, etc.--made my days. Thanks
The fall of the Ummayyad rule of Andalusia is sad indeed but as Muslims we must trail onward to know our history the good the bad and the ugly to have a well rounded picture of what happened from the birth of the Muhmmad and events leading up to it (peace be upon him) all the way till today!!
Very nice video, I really enjoyed it, but it lacked a bit of detail at the end, Cordoba was sacked twice in 6 months in 1009 and 1010 and then a 3rd time in 1013, between that and the abolition of the caliphate in 1031 is , like you said, a period of confusion and troubles, it's this period I want to know more about. As a side note, it's really frustrating to see the umayyad clan learned nothing about unity despite everything they went through.
@@AlMuqaddimahYT Soooo could we expect a taifa episode? Man I love the first taifa period, really game of thrones with some very memorable characters, and I just love the story of Al Mu'tamid ibn Abbad, keep up the good work
5:36 is not an actual picture of Al Mansour. Please dont use pictures drawn to distort history, especially Al Andalus it was subject to many such stuff
When you were saying about how your heart aches to tell the fall of Andulus in the start... I felt that..😖 Truly, knowing fall of Muslim Iberia is very sad
@@AlMuqaddimahYT what is your opinion on the collapse of the mughal empire?... I think it is a combination of intolerance during the mughal era and costly unnecessary wars in the south with the marathas....
The title Caliph itself is a historical accident, because it has meaning "replacement" which in Abu Bakar case meant that he is to replace Prophet Muhammad to be leader of muslim community. I meant, almost all Caliph except in rashidun era doesn't hold on the idea of becoming "replacement of a prophet" in their mind. What They do is just become an ordinary king.
Almanzor, while militarily powerful, sowed the seeds of his own country’s destruction. Al Rahman had gained an equilibrium with the northern Christian kingdoms. He was clearly superior to them, they knew it, he knew it. And it worked. Al Rahman ruled wisely and justly. Almanzor, on the other hand, alienated the peninsula, completely delegitimized the caliph, and organized the thriving economy into a wartime, slaver economy. What a shit ruler. Almanzor is right up there for me as one of the worst monarchs in medieval history, despite his military achievements (which were essentially just large scale booty and slave raids).
@@AlMuqaddimahYT I think al Mansur was pretty clever I mean make a puppet caliph make allies and kill them he was probably just as good as abdur rahman III
This same kind of thing happened with Zengid dynasty. Iman Ad Deen and his son Noor Ad Deen did well for themselves. But Noor Ad Deen died with a young son. The son was a puppet to diffferent people. And he was finally killed by poison when he was about to become adult. Then Zengids declined and Ayyubids rose.
We need a series to represent this history from the time Mu'aywa took over until after abbasiyeen, like a well produced netflix,. Game of Thrones, acted out by well know people to engage. It is interesting.
المصحفي Al Mus hafi Not Mush hafi The H is separate Abu Amir was the one who killed Al Mugheerah but he was reluctant too Abu Amir was a Ma’afari From the tribe of Mud’hajj A Yemeni tribe He called himself Al Mansoor because it means the victorious Because he was always victorious
I disagree with dynastic rule cus it wouldn’t be fair on the rest of the Muslims and the ummaydds lived in a life of luxury so did some of the abbassids,I would say the rashidun were the true caliphs because they were humble and had great personalities.
I think we Muslims don't have a good political system to pass down power every time a leader dies it's like a coin flip the only reason it worked for the rashidun caliphs was because of their moral compass and character what we should have learned was to create a system were power is transferred in a standard and just way and where a clear heir is declared not a monarchy of course
Back then, the Arabs and the Amazigh didn't fit to each other. And if we look at now, it's nothing changes. There is still tension going on between thouse two groups
Live by the sword die by the sword. Today there is no one who can claim to be descendants of Umayyads while Hashemite are in millions all over the world. Ali won in this world and hereafter. Mawaiya ruled by treachery and had generations vanished ✌️✌️✌️ P.S I'm not a Shia.
Almanzor destroyed the political system of the state and reorganised it around himself, he was a dictator, intelligent and shrewd yes but a dictator still
@@kareemtheeb1478 the Saqaliba didn't want Hichem as caliph in the first place, they knew he was gonna be the puppet of Almazor, Almushafi and his mother Subh. They wanted Al Hakam's brother, Al Mughira to succeed because he was old and well trained in government and wasn't easy to manipulate. Well it's all history now.
At 2:22, I accidentally said that Ghalib was a Muladi. He was actually a Siqlabi. Also, the flag for the caliphate isn't accurate. I didn't realize that I used the wrong flag till it was very late to change it.
Also, you forgot about flags for the Taifas, but no big deal. Next time I suggest delaying it in case there is something you missed. A bad thing if worked on will eventually become good. But a bad thing rushed will always remain bad.
@@Solon1581 I thought the flag of the emirate/caliphate of cordoba is a green turban mounted on a lance, or is that just their battle standard?
If you would make a video on the Abdul Rahman bin Ismail Al-Jeberti and the Somali. It would be great.
@@laenorvelaryon5835
It is a green flag with a falcon on it.
(Falcon of Quraish).
@@Muhammad-sx7wrlol u kidding right?
Lemony Snicket and Caliphal History - a match made in Jannah
Also the MCU, apparently.
I am stuborn enough to watch your videos
Love that CK2 references 🤣
Me too
Even I, a christian from Portugal, feel sad at seeing the life's work of Abd al-Rahman III undone ~50 years after his death.
Why
@@maikeliphillips850 He (and his son) elevated Al-Andalus to it's greatest heights, he dedicated all his life to his realm and made Cordoba the rnament of the world!
His passion, his dedication, his struggles, his achivements. I can respect and admire all of that. Be inspierd by it even.
@@silveryuno And remember Andalusians were actually native iberians who were arabized, not some completely different people. It's part of your heritage too
@@gymrat5014 nop, iberia did not have a big population. After the Umayyad conquest, Arabs were moved from yemen hijaz levant iraq and north africa into the Iberian peninsula. And the arabs kept moving into Al Andalus throughout 800 years
@@Bibliotecanatalie How come Arabs left no genetic traces on the Iberian peninsula ? How come the Arabian peninsula which is a big f desert with the exception of yemeni highlands being somewhat fertile had a larger population than Iberia in a time when food from foreign countries wasn’t shipped to others? No one in his right mind can make such claims
The conquest of Iberia was done by Arab berber leadership no one denies that Musa was an Arab although the soldiers were mostly Berber soldiers as Arab manpower was pretty low after all the wars in the East
The vast Majority of Al Andalus was inhabited by Ethnic Iberians whom some of them mostly in the Roman urban South adopted an Arab identity.
Most just led their everyday peasant life with pretty much no changes at all
We have been blessed with another video!
Just shows the circle of life
Empires rise and fall
And always will
Keeping an empire together is really difficult.
Wow wow what a great work man you are Amazing from the montage to your commentating in the video keep the good work
P.S
May Allah grant you jannah
Another great video, although your warning at the beginning makes me laugh. I'm Polish, I don't even know the meaning of "happy ending"! ;)
I find the Saqaliba particularly interesting, mostly because the whole concept of slave-soldiers and their rise to power (similar to the Mameluks) seems so bizarre and kinda deliciously ironic to me. Plus, as their name itself suggests, they were mostly Slavic.
Also, whenever you mention Muʿtazila it makes me think about an alternate timeline where it became and stayed the dominant school of Islam. How different the world would be now?
I've always found it ironic too. Although, I'm always rooting for the slave soldiers rising up because that just feels right. Mutazila school was good, the world could've been different in many ways.
Al-Mu'tazila were philosophers more than theologians. And with the chaotic nature of Islamic state craft, it was inevitable that the Mu'tazila would be persecuted and Islam would evolve to be more fundamentalist, since Muslim communities were plagued with internal strife ever since the Rashidun.
However, if we would theoretically propose that Muslims would get their shit together and establish stable states. Islam under the Mu'tazilites would avoid the steep decline into fundamentalism and isolationism we see today.
@@AlMuqaddimahYT what. Mutazila were crazy stupid quran is a creation even Ahmad stood up against them.
F*ck al-mutazila the most heretic sect after most of the shia
Your videos are awesome man. I was lucky enough to attend a university with a huge library full of Middle Eastern textbooks. The true history is rarely discussed, but you're one point and do a great job.
Thanks, man. What University was that?
@@AlMuqaddimahYT FAU in Boca. If I remember correctly it was on the third floor. Huge section of Middle Eastern studies in multiple languages.
Don't worry about the sad ending, I am already depressed.
Ohhh a CK2 reference, I am not depressed anymore.
Hahaha, you're not? Usually, with CKII, I'm depressed, possessed, leprous and my grand-nephew is plotting to kill me while my brother is already rebelling.
@@AlMuqaddimahYT When did the channel turned to a slice of life show?
Great job. The amount of information in this video....Holy Crap! LOL. Keep it up.
And....sources....I just looked for them. So much information...must show your sources. So we can look it up! There's five papers in here. Seriously...lol
I always forget that. My main source for this was Hugh Kennedy's Muslim Spain and Portugal and some minor sources here and there. Confirmed some of his sources too.
Hi, Great video! Like always. However, English is not my first nor even my second language. I got problems keeping up without reading subtitles. Your english subtitle is not properly timed, i think. Idk if it's just me. Please, kindly look into it when you have time.
And thank you for making this channel. It changes how I see the history of the religion I thought i knew all my life. And all of the references--count olaf, shield, hydra, lannister, etc.--made my days. Thanks
Al Andalus, we knew ye well...
Great video!
Very interesting. I learned a lot of new things!
Can you make a video on Delhi Sultanate as it would be great. And would help in teaching in Class
I Love your work brother 🙏
The fall of the Ummayyad rule of Andalusia is sad indeed but as Muslims we must trail onward to know our history the good the bad and the ugly to have a well rounded picture of what happened from the birth of the Muhmmad and events leading up to it (peace be upon him) all the way till today!!
Great work mashallah
Very nice video, I really enjoyed it, but it lacked a bit of detail at the end, Cordoba was sacked twice in 6 months in 1009 and 1010 and then a 3rd time in 1013, between that and the abolition of the caliphate in 1031 is , like you said, a period of confusion and troubles, it's this period I want to know more about.
As a side note, it's really frustrating to see the umayyad clan learned nothing about unity despite everything they went through.
I might make another video about that period but not sure right now. I wanna get this period done and revisit the specifics later on.
@@AlMuqaddimahYT Soooo could we expect a taifa episode? Man I love the first taifa period, really game of thrones with some very memorable characters, and I just love the story of Al Mu'tamid ibn Abbad, keep up the good work
Game of thrones looks know like a kind movie
Wait until we reach the taifa period
@@laenorvelaryon5835 I know I have studied it in school in our Arabic courses
@@laenorvelaryon5835 in poaety and the Historic entrance
Sync the subtitles bro.. Jazakallah kheir for the amazing work 👍
(Insert the "look how they massacred my boy" meme here)
T______T
I'm going to cry
5:36 is not an actual picture of Al Mansour. Please dont use pictures drawn to distort history, especially Al Andalus it was subject to many such stuff
When you were saying about how your heart aches to tell the fall of Andulus in the start... I felt that..😖 Truly, knowing fall of Muslim Iberia is very sad
this is why ottomon fractricide was such a good idea no brother no civil war
Ikr! Yet again, the Ottomans were the wisest.
@@AlMuqaddimahYT the ottomon empire collapsed the same way incompetent rulers and due to the end of fractricide law
Yeah, you stop killing your brothers and all of a sudden, the Arabs revolt and the British invade and your empire dies. Shame.
@@AlMuqaddimahYT why do you post so late man
@@AlMuqaddimahYT what is your opinion on the collapse of the mughal empire?... I think it is a combination of intolerance during the mughal era and costly unnecessary wars in the south with the marathas....
The title Caliph itself is a historical accident, because it has meaning "replacement" which in Abu Bakar case meant that he is to replace Prophet Muhammad to be leader of muslim community.
I meant, almost all Caliph except in rashidun era doesn't hold on the idea of becoming "replacement of a prophet" in their mind.
What They do is just become an ordinary king.
Well...
Bhaijaan 🤔 You should start writing history books. Wish one day they would be a part of the official syllabus of Pakistan education system👍
There's no room in Pakistan's education system for the truth. 🙄
@@AlMuqaddimahYT unfortunately you are right but it was just my wish
@@AlMuqaddimahYT trueee
Almanzor, while militarily powerful, sowed the seeds of his own country’s destruction. Al Rahman had gained an equilibrium with the northern Christian kingdoms. He was clearly superior to them, they knew it, he knew it. And it worked. Al Rahman ruled wisely and justly. Almanzor, on the other hand, alienated the peninsula, completely delegitimized the caliph, and organized the thriving economy into a wartime, slaver economy. What a shit ruler. Almanzor is right up there for me as one of the worst monarchs in medieval history, despite his military achievements (which were essentially just large scale booty and slave raids).
I am so sad the umiyads are gone
U deserve more subs
So sad to see Muslim rulers lost everything and dragged the whole Muslim nation and upcoming generations into chaos just because of their selfishness
Video definition of When you spend a lot of effort in achieving something monumental for your nation only for someone to unravel it within a lifetime.
lesson of the story never allow the ruler become a puppet and never allow your rivals to gain too much power
Lesson of the story, don't wait to have kids otherwise you might die before they're old enough and they'll become a puppet.
@@AlMuqaddimahYT I think al Mansur was pretty clever I mean make a puppet caliph make allies and kill them he was probably just as good as abdur rahman III
@@AlMuqaddimahYT I don't know why you were so aggressive against that Portuguese guy every one has their own perspective
I was not aggressive, I was being sarcastic.
@@AlMuqaddimahYT I don't think he took it as sarcasm
Cant wait for Almoravids Morocco
First, it's the Taifas.
First Taifas than Almoravids than Taifas again & than Almohads …. and on the end its just Granada.
@@SayedMuhammadAlSharif First Taifas - Almoravids - Second Taifas - Almohads - Thirst Taifas - Emirate of Granada
@@Francisco-dr7ri (I actually mean that too.)
But, Yes that's correct thank you for the correction.
You're Welcome. :-)
@@SayedMuhammadAlSharif You´re welcome. I´m Andalusian I know the history of Andalusia since I was a child. :-)
Can your provide the sources used in your Islamic Iberia videos.
I'm guessing a lot of Hugh Kennedy. Dude's a badass of a scholar.
"How stupid can one guy be?"
History is replete with answers to this question.
umayyad in my game breached Europe even reached Ireland, too bad it also has bad ending. Aztec attack and the rest is history
Ah! What could've been.
I wouldn’t use that crap of dlc.
One lf the Saddest moment in Islamic history
This same kind of thing happened with Zengid dynasty. Iman Ad Deen and his son Noor Ad Deen did well for themselves. But Noor Ad Deen died with a young son. The son was a puppet to diffferent people. And he was finally killed by poison when he was about to become adult. Then Zengids declined and Ayyubids rose.
History of the ottomans next???
Nope! As much as I love the Ottomans, they have to wait. I'm gonna cover topics that haven't been covered much first.
Whe are imazighen not berbers
We need a series to represent this history from the time Mu'aywa took over until after abbasiyeen, like a well produced netflix,. Game of Thrones, acted out by well know people to engage. It is interesting.
History Always has a Happy ending........For someone.
The key is not to for attachments.
Not for Poland
المصحفي
Al Mus hafi
Not Mush hafi
The H is separate
Abu Amir was the one who killed Al Mugheerah but he was reluctant too
Abu Amir was a Ma’afari
From the tribe of Mud’hajj
A Yemeni tribe
He called himself
Al Mansoor because it means the victorious
Because he was always victorious
I disagree with dynastic rule cus it wouldn’t be fair on the rest of the Muslims and the ummaydds lived in a life of luxury so did some of the abbassids,I would say the rashidun were the true caliphs because they were humble and had great personalities.
That's all in the past, not like it happens in the modern era that some rich families rule the poor.
I think we Muslims don't have a good political system to pass down power every time a leader dies it's like a coin flip the only reason it worked for the rashidun caliphs was because of their moral compass and character what we should have learned was to create a system were power is transferred in a standard and just way and where a clear heir is declared not a monarchy of course
after the rashiduns all other muslim states were dynasties (even now a days.)
الترجمه لوسمحت
Doesn't ache hearts of people when the grandson of their prophet was massacred by the "Caliph"of this dynasty.
Complete bro!
Background music surpasses your voice. Am I right?
Back then, the Arabs and the Amazigh didn't fit to each other. And if we look at now, it's nothing changes. There is still tension going on between thouse two groups
No one fits with the Arabs when they are not great. And the Arabs on the other hand don't accept kings over them unless religiously fit.
@@rimacalid6557 because arab are theocratic
Like christian and byzantium. Not fit at all. 4th crusadde is sacked constantinopel
F in the chat bois
الترجمه
That's thousand years ago. Today Muslims are suffering in China and India and what are we doing
Humans are suffering today and we're not doing anything, man.
@@AlMuqaddimahYT sad
Ck2 is the best fight me!
I'm gonna fight you because CKII isn't the best. Pineapple on Pizza is the best.
Ottoman Empire Once More1299-1923
American Year 1776
Pakistan Year 1947
Live by the sword die by the sword. Today there is no one who can claim to be descendants of Umayyads while Hashemite are in millions all over the world.
Ali won in this world and hereafter. Mawaiya ruled by treachery and had generations vanished ✌️✌️✌️ P.S I'm not a Shia.
You're not Shia, just an engineer fan?
Muslim Year 1441
F
الحاجب المنصور اعظم من حكم الاندلس
Almanzor destroyed the political system of the state and reorganised it around himself, he was a dictator, intelligent and shrewd yes but a dictator still
laenor velaryon
واذا لم يتدخل المنصور سيصبح الخليفة الصغير لعبة بيد الصقالبة
@@laenorvelaryon5835
Saqaliba were going to take it if Al Manzur didn't do anything.
@@kareemtheeb1478 the Saqaliba didn't want Hichem as caliph in the first place, they knew he was gonna be the puppet of Almazor, Almushafi and his mother Subh. They wanted Al Hakam's brother, Al Mughira to succeed because he was old and well trained in government and wasn't easy to manipulate. Well it's all history now.
@M&M صدقت والله مفروض مايحجر على الخليفة و يربيه ليكون الحاكم بعده
Ottoman Empire 1299-1922
Good Ol’ Almanzor
Muslim Year 1441