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Hi! Welcome to Al Muqaddimah, my name is Syawish. For almost 800 years, the Iberian Peninsula existed as a pocket of Islamic Civilization, away from the Middle East, in Europe. Islamic Civilization thrived there and connected the Islamic World to Europe, opening the way for the exchange of ideas. It created not just one but two golden ages, the Golden of the Caliphate of Cordoba and the Golden Age of the Sephardic Jews. It was an abode of tolerance and collaboration. Slowly but steadily, the Muslim polities were pushed off the Iberian peninsula and sent packing to North Africa. After this, the Muslim population was told to convert, leave or die.
This fascinating story is too often told from a religious point of view, the clash of two great religions, the victory of Christianity over Islam. However, the story is more complicated than that. Muslims often allied with Christians against other Muslims and Christians often allied with Muslims against other Christians. While religion certainly played a part, this conflict should be seen as a conflict between ambitious people coveting more and more power by any means necessary.
Another simplistic view of the collapse of Muslim Iberia is that the Muslims were too decedent, bogged down by harems full of women and chalices full of wine. But again, the story is much more complicated than that. So, let’s take a look at some of the reason behind the fall of Muslim Iberia.
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Everytime I hear about how Iberian peninsula was taken away from Muslims..it just hurts really..
You can't hold any territory if the population is against you. Muslims held Andulus because the Local Arrians wanted them to, to protect from Catholic oppression. Once the Muslims became the oppressors after the Muwahidoon and others, the public didn't want them so the enemy beat them easier. It's like the difference for Russia between Donbas and Kiev.
Can't wait for China to conquer the Islamic world and deislamize it like it's doing to the Uighurs
Fun fact ,all Muslims produce less science than spain, and hundreds of millions of Muslims can't even beat Israel in 3 wars.
Sad civilization 😭 weak and pathetic
Moroccans are the worst when it comes to laying siege , no matter how strong the empire was we always sucked when besieging .
Almohads and almoravids took back a lot of cities such as Valencia, Murcia, Trujillo, Calatrava, Zaragoza, Silves. They were decent at siege warfare, its just that they had a lot of instability in north africa that prevented them from defend andalusia at times
The reason that the reconquista was a sucess in Spain and Portugal, was that were a great number of catholics in this countries, and this cristians moçarabs supported the cruzaders, but in Syria and Egypt because of the cism monophysite, the Christians prefere maintained in the muslin domain that support the cruzaders, and loose his religious indentity
minute 3.33 the non-muslim pays the jizya tax.. yes.. but they don't have to pay zakat..have you compared the rate Muslim need to pay zakat against the jizya needed to be paid by non-Muslim? According to Muhammad Hamidullah, the jizya rate was ten dirhams per year "in the time of the Prophet", but this amounted to only "the expenses of an average family for ten days". Whereas they are may kind of zakat needed to be paid by the Muslim. MUSLIM pays more than non-muslim. A fallacy in your argument.
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the ummayads didn't learn from their fall in Damascus!
The end of the Umayyad caliphate of Spain was one of the biggest catastrophe to befall the muslims. Fascinating era, and really important for muslims to take lessons from !
I have a series on my channel covering Almoravids and the Muslims taifas, so basically 50 years after this.
Very good video as usual!
Make a video about Somalia please, the ajuuran empire, the adal sultanate had a very rich history I hope you dive into it
It can be seen now and well, muslims state often allies with outsiders and are hostile to each other's.
i still cannot understand why Muslim armies didn't utilize heavy armored knights and lancers and failed to make any powerful navies
So, basically the main reason is the same why the Visigoths lost Iberia when the Muslims first invaded it: bickering and internal conflicts among the Visigoths themselves.
Love your work
And no need to feel guilty of moving to West
Pakistan is no Islamic nation, non practising cultural Muslims are the majority
So what you are saying, is that disarming the civilian population lead to the downfall of al andalus?
looking at the current geopolitical situation of the world and the state of modern muslim rulers, do u think that Allah will allow the creation of a new Caliphate within next 100 or so years…?
Islamic imperialism, every imperialism will be destroyed in the end. Neither Spain nor Portugal are or were Islamic or Arabic lands. So, they should go down.
I am impressed by your indepth knowledge of the Islamic history
I've long concluded that the "Reconquista" was not actually a thing. There were times like the Second Crusade when Christians allied to make a cohesive move against Muslim power, but these were brief exceptions. There was never a concerted, centuries-long effort to push Muslim rule out of Iberia; that's just how it happened to turn out.
After analyzing many conflicts that are purported to be wars of religion, as well as those that are not, I came to understand that in reality, every war is either a land grab or a plundering venture. From the Crusades where the lesser nobility hoped to make a fortune, to the Reconquista, to the Protestant-Catholic fighting in Ireland – they are all land/wealth grabs. But no one can raise an army with the slogan 'fight to make me rich' so instead, the element of religion is introduced as a successful dupe to the less educated people who will heed someone's call to 'defend their religion'; they will sacrifice everything for the sake of 'religion' which has been used to mask the real nature of all wars – the accumulation of wealth, land, and/or power.
you should do a video on how they invaded Spain and Portugal
oh my heart, dont grieve for whats lost, rejoice for it happened
this is how i am consoling myself with tears in my eyes
Very good video and good analysis & summary by the Brother…Keep up the good works..Thanks, from Malaysia
The issues of Racism and Tribes..shouldn't exist in Islam. We all are the same in front of Allah. What's differentiate us is our Imaan, 'amal solleh or good deeds and our akhlaq…
Lesson learned…Utmost important for Muslim to be united and strong, to do 'amar maqruf and nahi mungkar and not to fight and have grudges to each other…
As Iberians, our oldest cultural identity is Celtic (Celtiberian) but we accepted Roman identity and culture gladly after the conquest. We were fully romanized and lived the Roman way for centuries. We generally even pride ourselves in having been Romans in the past and see ourselves as their cultural descendants. We don’t identify at all with the other cultures that ruled here: Carthaginian, Visigothic / Germanic or Arab / Muslim. Religiously, we completely forgot our Polytheistic past and are (at least culturally) fully Christian.
We Iberians see ourselves as distinct from North African and Northern European cultures. Most uninformed Iberians outside Andalusia don’t even know they had Germanic or Arab rulers in the past.
But every Iberian knows they were Roman in the past. We keep building residential and government buildings / architecture in Greco-Roman style, and see Italy and Greece as the closest cultures today (southern European mediterranean culture).
We also produced a lot of architecture in Germanic / Gothic style (particularly during the Middle Ages) – most Iberians not even knowing why. While Arab architecture, as much as we like it, the remains of it here in Iberia sit as tourist attractions in the dry south of the peninsula.
believe it ..muslim will rule the world once again!!!