Number 1 for me is the Rashidun Caliphate. During the rule of the first four caliphs, there was no barrier between the people and the rulers. The caliphs would walk, eat, talk and pray with the people.
That is actually the problem of "CRITERIA". You can do any rank to any empire. The Bureau of Statistics does this all the time: i.e. manipulating the criteria.
This video really just failed to mention the Almohads, Almoravids, Mali, Songhai, Ajuran, Adal and Kanem Bornu, all of these were very great African sultanates of their time, how did he forget to include all of them??🤦🏾 L video
No African Muslims empire? Wow this is nuts. European not recognizing us now is our muslim Brothers as well. The Mali empire was the most peaceful in the world
I love the way you divide Abd Malik ibn Marwan's Ummayad dynasty and Muawiyyah's Ummayad dynasty. I agreed. They should be considered as different dynasty.
@@castle4757 Three reason. Firstly, as mentioned in the video, they were from different branch of family although all of them Ummayad. The first one came from Muawiyyah ibn Abu Sufyan and then his son Yazid and then his grandson Muawiyyah II. The second from Marwan ibn Al-Hakam. Muawiyyah, Marwan, and Uthman are cousins with each of them from different Ummayah branches. Secondly, between first Ummayad (Sufyanid) and second Ummayad (Marwanid), there was a gap where Abu Bakr grandson, Abdullah ibn Zubayr ibn Al-Awwam, son of Asma, had defeated the first Ummayad dinasty and ruled significant area. It was until Abdul Malik ibn Marwan, the Ummayad family, now lead by different branched, had reconquered Arab. Thirdly, both dynasties had different characteristic. The first Ummayad was simply ruled as tribal chief. The second Ummayad dynasty had more structure and bureaucracy. Abdul Malik ibn Marwan himself had legacy from standardized Arabic including made it compulsory language for all officials; designed and released his own currency, the first dinar; creating Qubbat as-Sakhrah (Dome of Rock). Compared to his predecessor, Abdul Malik ibn Marwan was knowledgeable in Islamic law by being born and raised in Madina. His policy was mentioned in Imam Malik ibn Anas' Muwatta.
@@kunderemp but in their era; they are a few in numbers so they considered themselves as one family not sufyanid nor marwanid, plus the Marwanid legitimacy came from sufyanid; as they saw themselves as continuation of Umayyad dynasty.
no one cares about those dipshits, the Mughal Empire was at 25 percent of the world's GDP, the Ottomans Ratioed the Romans and the Safavids had always a huge cultural impact on the Islamic World.
I would set the Abbasids as the first. They sponsored the Islamic Golden Age, which was of ginormous importance for all the Western World. Basically we wouldn't have modern science without them. Under their rule lived al-Khwarizm, perhaps the greatest islamic scientist of all times. They defeated the chinese at the Battle of Talas in 751 and brought the use of paper to all the West (whose importance is very difficult to exaggerate). They founded Baghdad, a city that came to host at its peak the astonishing number of 1.2 million people (more than Rome in its glory), with a library and a study center maybe greater than its alexandrian precursor in the Hellenistic Age. It is true the Ottomans had a longlasting reign, but their empire was a truly international fearsome power for nearly 250 years (from c. 1400 to 1650). It is still longer than the effective Abbasid rule (750 - 860), but how many ottoman traits became so trascendent for the World in general, compared to the Abbasids? Anyway, it is an interesting excercise to encourage discussion.
Ma man why you keep sayin brought it to the West, importance for the West?? It was a great empire who had done the most significant achievements in history in many aspects. It was for Muslims first and to humanity. Period. The Abbasids didnt care about the West cause at the time it wasnt a significant place. Theres no need to keep mentioning the West here the topic is about Muslim empires😉
The idea that without Islamic science there won’t be western science is kind of historical fantasy with mental gymnastics. We will never know. This is also true for Islamic science itself. Abbasids thirst for knowledge made them to translate almost all of the available Greek texts. So without prior Greek knowledge can they be Islamic science? Besides one of the premier accomplishments of Islamic science is the invention of algebra. But algebra is itself possible because of the invention of Indian/Hindu numerals which the abbasids incorporated. All science is like that. Everyone learns from each other and adds their own. There is no point in thinking without this there won’t be that. What matters is that people keep learning and progressing, or risk stagnation, which clearly happened in the Islamic world from late medieval ages.
The rashidun are the best according to the prophet (saw) himself. Also have you noticed they are the only ones whose name isn’t a tribe? Because they are the best.
Brilliant video. As a western non Muslim with a love of history and the medieval period, its often hard to untangle the middle easts history from political and religious biases. But your channel does just that with clear designations of when something is your opinion and what your information is based upon. Loving the channel and please keep up the good work.
Just imagine for a second a video about the 15 "greatest" European Empires with such a positive tone... and with the "pretty cool" first one being the British Empire or something. Imagine the outrage that such a video would produce.
It pleases me that the Ottomans were on number 1 on the list. Let’s not forget they only had one dynasty from start to finish with members from the house of Osman still being alive today which is pretty cool
The Ottoman banned the printing press which is why muslim countries are undeveloped and weak The ottoman never built a university or a city or a road The ottoman rejected the renaissance the ottoman rejected the enlightenment values The ottoman rejected the industrial Revolution
@@12gmkk29 they built nursing houses for those who needed it. (Granted not an Ottoman invention but still). They conquered Constantinople, (nuff said!). They outlived they’re enemy empires. They were the last mediterrainian empire. Oh and also because of An Ottoman architect,(forgot his name): helped save and preserve Hagia Sophia. And they were the closest empire in size to The Roman Empire since the Roman Empire after Selim The Grims conquest
Amazing video, and I definitely agree with your number one pick, even though in my heart the Rashidun Caliphate is number one. And even though a lot of people will hate you and try to fight you over this, I'll tell you, don't get discouraged by them you did a great job. We tend to view everything from a very religious perspective and this makes us very emotional about everything, not realising that sometimes in certain specific scenarios a secular view is more useful for proper analysis and in some other cases a religious view is more useful. Again wonderful video and best wishes to you from a fellow Muslim brother in Pakistan, shab-a-khair and an early Ramadan Mubarak😊
The rashidun caliphate is the most influential in islamic history. Every region they gained was assimilated and never lost until today. Most ottoman territories were lost or returned to former situation, Barely anyone converted and they didn’t have a real cultural impact.
@Siraj Haq when the rashidun took persia, egypt and north africa, these regions accepted islam gradually despite not being arab. and by the end of the 4th hijri century they mostly became muslims. this did not happen in eastern europe and areas around black see which the ottomans controlled for 500 years. the ottomans were the most overrated islamic empite ever. they did protect muslim lands for some time but the decline of islamic culture was clear
@Siraj Haq this is not how you discuss history. we are discussing empires from the prespective of islam. and placing ottomans as number 1 is very unfortunate.
@@youtubeexpert2441 yeah..by actually being tolerant..what u thing those ppls in persia n egypt actually openheartedly converted to islam..not without the inquisition of paganism n islamic privileges...the ottomans really did practice stable administrative system which lasted more than 200 years
@@curiosity-educationalchann1041 not accurate at all. egypt and persia people did openheartedly convert gradually. it took them 2-4 hundred years to do so. eventually egypt even became arab under the fatimid. all of this happened because of stable government and cultural achevements of the early islamic empires.. which were much more superior to the ottomans. the ottomans were not interested in culture or religion.. all they wanted was european slaves and tribute from local populations. the locals were not impressed at all.
@@youtubeexpert2441 really dude...who make arabic compulsory...who created dhimmi taxes...n how to climb social stairs...if all that doesn't exist who wanna change faith...if u said the otto doesnt interested in cultural achievement...can u see the landscape of Constantinople, who sent armada to protect muslim in acheh n diu
Syawish, you have, as usual, delivered a truly captivating and informative video. I love learning about the beautiful, unique and inspiring history of Islam and the heartland of the Islamic world. I am very grateful to you for the very hard work you put into every single video you do. May God bless you
Well, to say that previous empires only conquered and taxed is kind of a wrong statement to make. Umar Ibn Khattab is the main point in all of this. He introduced several reforms, some of which were used by several people across the centuries, even by Akbar of all people. Some of which were establishing a secret spy network to keep an eye on all of his governors and constantly moving them around to ensure they don't build much power. He also appointed officials based on merits and those merits would constantly be checked routinely to see if they were living up to it. He also held considerable power since he was able to dismiss a person like Khalid Ibn Al-Walid by simply giving the order and facing little to no resistance. He also told his soldiers that none of them could buy territory in conquered lands, to ensure no imbalance of power (which happened during Umar's reign). These are by no means small feat, as he was able to keep almost all the citizens of the Caliphate satisfied through his smart administration. There were also social reforms, like introducing a welfare system which would carry itself to the modern day. He started using the money in the Bayt Al-Mal, taken from the Zakat, and distributing it among the poor, orphans, widows, disabled among others. He also established several Religious reforms as well. The same was the case of Mu'awiya, who led several reforms and unique ideas. You can't simply ignore their contributions and deem the empires as "not doing much."
I agreed that Umar's ijtihad was considered amazing but his successor, Uthman, only able to maintained that reform for the first 5-6 years. Later on, he succumbed into tribal practice which led Egypt people revolted. Uthman's successor, Ali, did not get approval from both Egypt and Syria. Basically, whatever reform Umar has done, most of them were crumbled in his successor's era. Umar was ahead of his time. It was Abdul Malik ibn Marwan, the forgotten founder of the second Ummayad dynasty who really established continuous policy system. He was the first caliph who made Arabic language and Arabic script compulsory. One of his ijtihad even mentioned by Malik ibn Anas in latter's Muwatta. Abd Malik ibn Marwan also the first caliph who published his own coin in his own designed, the first dinar.
Great list but I'm curious if who got left off, basically who would have occupied 20-15. The Ghaznavids, Almoravids, Mali, Songhai, Bornu and Timurids come to mind.
Ilkhanate, Golden Horde, Chagatai Khanate, Tahirids, Safarids, Samanids, Ghurids, Hamdanids, Omani Empire (which was Ibadi), Sokoto Caliphate, Gujarat, the Hyderabad State in south India (which was Shi'ite), Qajars, Afsharids, and Zand all come to mind (with the choices you listed) that could potentially be in a 30-15 listing.
To be fair, the Timurids probably have negative stability points and negative cultural points too, so of course they would not be on this list By the way, Al-Muqaddimah literally has an empire with 0 points on it, because that makes sense.
@@Skip-Kilat very underrated though 3rd Earliest Shia Sultanate which Pereulak located in South East Asian.Also Kedah Sultanate which in criminally underrated since their dynasty remain unchanged from 630 AD (They are Hindu-Buddist at first) though this are debatable
MALI EMPIRE!!! Dear brother, first of all thank you for your amazing work as usual. The Mali empire was founded in 1226 by the Great warrior Sundjata Keita. It lasted more than 450 years. One great and known figure of its empire was Mansa Musa who holds the title of the wealthiest man to ever live. Mansa Musa traveled with a huge amount of gold on his way to Mecca and came back with his cars filled with books. It is said that he caused a great depreciation of gold for how much he had given on his journey to Mecca. Europe even was not spared economically. He founded one the greatest libraries of time, and perhaps the greatest of Africa history (yes it is believed to be greater than Alexandria's). Another important figure, but unfortunately no so well known is Abu Bakr II, known as Abu Bakr the Explorer. Abu Bakr is the predecessor of Mansa Musa. He gave the Empire responsibility to Musa after the first naval expedition to the America's. Yes he's been there before Christopher Colombus. Abu Bakr was not sure to come back after his second expedition and that is why he gave the succession of the empire to Musa. Unfortunately he never came back.. The last known record of the expedition is some of the ships that came back and reported to loose contact due to a heavy storm. In the America's, could be found black skinned people prior to the triangle trade (the great African slave trade). Muslim names and mosques were recorded on the Journal de Bord of the European's first contacts in the America's (if we exclude the idea that vikings were to set foot on North American continent prior to Colombus). It is also believed that the Malian were the ones to increase blacksmith skills of the native American at the time. The Malian Empire was very famous for its administrative and ruling system. I have so much content that I can share if anyone is interested. AND isn't the Malay empire worth talking about?! 😂 Once again brother, thank you very much for your content. I discovered only recently your channel and hope soon to be an active donor. Bless you
Native americans didnt knew iron working, something they would have known if malian smiths would have taugth theem. The spanish explorers didnt found anything muslim, so it seems that he used mosque as synonym of non christian temple. Muslim names? Where?
@@rizkyadiyanto7922I think even the songhai or Mali will not make it tho the list just by based in the calculations no heart feeling, but remember the almohad its present
There are many kingdoms and sultanates that is not in fertile crescent and anatolia area.. those too can be recognized as great islamic country. Like Jogjakarta and Surakarta. Also Malaya and Brunei. Pattani, Sulu, Aceh, Banten and many more.
@ Al Muqaddimah 8:44 Quick question: You said the Fatimid Caliphate essentially built the Shi'a faith; what about the three Buyid emirates of Shiraz, Rayy, and Baghdad? That point in Muslim history was called the "Shi'ite Century" because the two of them (grouping all the Buyids together) were the powerhouses of the Muslim world at the time. Did the Buyids not contribute anything of significance to building Shi'ism?
The Fatimids were Ismaili, which is not the largest sect of Shia islam today, it is twelver. I agree with you I think it was the Buyids and Safavids which created modern day twelver Shia islam. In fact in my opinion the Fatimids did almost nothing to create modern day Shia islam, look at north Africa today and you will very little Shia communities, which says something considering many areas where people are Shia were not spread because of an empire but because of local communities.
@@tortoisewarrior4855 Yes I am aware Twelver Shi'ism/ Imamism is largest sect today, thanks to the Safavids in the 1500's and then the Qajars and most every other Iranian power since then keeping it as the state religion up to today. I don't have enough knowledge on this but, I would find it hard to believe the Fatimids didn't contribute anything long-lasting towards Shi'ism.
He is incorrect about the fatimids. The buyids and the Safavids created modern day Shia Islam and the abbasid empire in Baghdad was far more important to modern day twelver Islam than the Fatimid empire ever will be. His understanding of Shiism is limited unfortunately. He is also unable to see how the Shia Fatimid empire could influence the greater Muslim world instead of just shias.
@Jarell Williams Songhai was not more stable than Mali. After Askia Muhammad's death the story of the empire was basically just his sons and grandsons murdering each other for the throne. Mali also actually lasted longer than Songhai.
I was sure there was going to be some April fool's joke, so when you reached 3rd place I was really afraid because there were no real contenders left but the ottomans and abbasids, and for the whole time I was afraid you were going to put the timurids in 1st place and praise Tamerlane or something. At the end you just counted the marwanids as a different empire, and I breathed a sigh of relief because it was then obvious the Ottomans will be in first place, but that was still pretty tense.
@asahi toki the rashidun were obviously extremely culturally important in creating Islam during its formative years, but the other Islamic caliphates such as the umayyads and abbasids were politically and militarily more successful, and anyways the ottomans ruled for such a long time as an extremely dominant power that while I personally think that the earlier caliphates were greater, the ottomans were more important than the rashiduns. I personally would have ordered it ummayad-rashidun-ottoman-abbasid, but as al-muqqadima said he got this list algorithmically rather than based on his personal opinion.
cultural and historical impact should have bigger weight than what you have given, in my opinion. but you have a pretty good list. My picks would be: 1. Rashidun 2. Umayyad (all branches) 3. Abbasid 4. Ottoman 5. Seljuk 6. Fatimid 7. Mughal 8. Safavid 9. Mamluk The impact of these empires are still felt today. - the impact of the first 3 caliphates can never be understated, and especially the Rashidun, the direct successor of The Prophet and brought to heel two great empires and two great religions. they basically formed the core Muslim world that still exists today. if that's not the greatest cultural impact, I don't know what is. - the longevity and power and influence of the ottomans prevented european culture and religion to penetrate and return to western asia at a time of european rise and caused them to explore westward... and we all know how that turned out. - when the seljuks won in manzikert it caused the byzantines to call for european aid and the crusades were born that led to conflicts still felt and even fought today. - the Fatimids and the Safavids established the Shi'a faith which still shapes the modern Islamic geopolitics to this day. - And the Mughals cultural impact on the Indian subcontinent especially India and Pakistan we can still see to this day. and they have the most beautiful physical legacy of these empires: the Taj Majal - the Mamluks' biggest claims to fame is that they stopped the Mongols from conquering the Levant and Egypt. and removed the last strongholds of crusading christianity from western Asia. modern-day Egypt is also their legacy.
I would agree in most lf this except the Seljuks, while they were almost unstoppable force, thier rein didn't last long nor thier cultural influence, they didn't build any major cities nor they contrubuted much to islamic culture so i will put the fatimades under the ottmans, for the reason of building the biggest and most influential capital in Africa, and creating many cultural and traditional Islamic heritage, a fun fact the lamp we use in ramadan originated from the fatimades
Ofc, cultural and historical effect are more important, i mean thats the reason why he put modest-in-size Al-Andalus on the list rather than the massive Timurid Empire on the list, wasnt he? Without Al-Andalus Davie504 would probably never slap his bass now.
I am not surprised that the Ottoman Empire made it as the number one on this list. Also, you're right about math. Sometimes, they like to give us answers that contradict whatever that is in our minds.
3:45 the Almohads were notorious for their orthodoxy and intolerance... Something that is in contrast with other tolerant Muslim dynasties that ruled Spain.
One thing to add about the Umayyad Caliphate of Cordoba is that the modern Spanish language still has traces from the Arabic language. I believe some 5000-6000 words (but this can be debated) of the modern Spanish language is derived from Arabic. That’s also some cultural influence.
I may be somewhat biased because I'm Kazakh but Golden Horde should be somewhere at the bottom of this list, it is often seen as a continuation of a Mongol Empire and nothing more but actually it became an empire of its own with a distinct culture, it was mostly ruled by Kipchaks("Turkic" tribes) and this guys managed to control quite a vast area in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Russian kingdoms were subjugated to them for 2 centuries. Sadly they were mostly a nomadic merchants who only conquered and collected goods and taxes but didn't left much from architecture, books and scientists.
Were there Islamic empires in the South East Asia? I’ve heard that Islam had a huge influence to the Austronesian people mainly in modern day Indonesia - Malaysia
This video really just failed to mention the Almoravids, Mali, Songhai, Ajuran, Adal and Kanem Bornu, all of these were very great African sultanates of their time, how did he forget to include all of them??🤦🏾 L video
yea 600 years of rule sounds pretty damn stable. the Ottomans encompassed all of the early modern era and brought islamic and turkish influence into anatolia and europe and only died because they were conquered, and even then maintained quite alot of territory afterwards as Turkey the early ottoman empire also showed good tolerance of different cultures and religions, ruling a multicultural empire like the mongols. it's sad tho near their end they became extremely xenophobic with forced conversions, expulsions, and genocides
@@lesussie2237 I disagree. Ottomans actually became more tolerant in their last century. A look into Tanzimat and Islahat Reform will prove my point. To fight nationalism, Ottomans adopted the idea of Ottomanism, that every Ottoman citizen was equal under law no matter their religion. The only systematic mass conversions in the Ottoman Empire were in sieges and in Janissary Guild to recruited Christian boys. Sieges weren't happening because 1. it's 1800's already and 2. Ottomans were pretty weak. And Janissary Guild and Devshirme System were both abolished by Mahmud II. In Islahat and Tanzimat Reforms, Ottomans gave non-Muslims equal rights and equal responsibilities. Jizya was abolished in 1856 and non-Muslims could hold government positions, Donizetti Pasha is an example. Also, since they had equal responsibilities, they had to serve in army like Turks did. Neither non-Muslims nor Islamists liked that serving in army part, so they instead required a special tax that would take the place of military service. World War I is a different story. Before the war, there weren't too much ethnic problems. However Armenian gangs rebelling for independence with Russian support during the war made Ottomans overreact by quite a lot. Young Turks actually had many Armenian members prior to war (only 1 person among the people who told Abdulhamid II that he was overthrown was Turkish. 2 were Armenian and 1 was Greek or Jewish if I remember right.) but when all the factors like local Turks and Kurds being angry at Armenians because of rebel attacks to villages; famine, forced migration, etc. combined, events quickly escalated to mass murder.
@@kmmmsyr9883 the problem wasn't the tolerance or the tanzimat reforms of the empire but were young turks a nationalist movement that proved fatal for the empire the biggest enemy of the empire were inner traitors
@@papazataklaattiranimam Timurids and the Sultanate fo Rum should've been in the top 15 for sure they left much more Islamic heritage compared to some of the ones in the video 😐
Assalam Alaikum Almuqaddimah, I really enjoy your content and I hope you keep going and get this wonderful content mashallah exposed to more and more people in the future. I wanted to suggest, if you dont have any other plans, whether you could do a brief video on Yemen's history before and after islam.
You totally forgot about Sultanate of Malacca in South East Asia. The 1st Islamic empire in SEA which conqured and ruled most part SEA during the year from 1400 till 1511.
No its not,malacca only control malay peninsula and west coast sumatera.brunei sultanate actually bigger than them and even outlived them even though they exist before malacca
the malacca sultanate was great but it definitely was NOT first and did NOT rule most parts of SE Asia lmao. it only ruled most of the malay peninsular and some parts of Sumatra. Brunei Sultanate was older and had more land. Even Aceh Sultanate lasted longer than Malacca.
Assalamualikum. Can you plz make a channal which's focus is on the history of the prophets of Islam? Basicaly in that channal you tell the stories of the prophets and also on the mythology of Islam.
Missing the Almoravids whom came after the Almohads the lands was the entire Iberia "Andalucia" to what is now Mauritania and the Capital was Marrakech. Also the Saadi dinasty which ruled over Mali, Sénégal,Niger.
The Timurids had two Empires, one in Central Asia and Iran, it was called "Iran and Turan", and the other was the Mughal Empire which was called "Hindustan".
Yeah, me too. Timur was one of the most feared men of that era. Interestingly enough, in the 1500s, Babur, a Timurid prince from Ferghana (modern Uzbekistan), invaded Kabulistan (modern Afghanistan) and established a small kingdom there. 20 years later, he used this kingdom as a staging ground to invade the Delhi Sultanate in India and establish the Mughal Empire. This is why I love History, everything is connected in some way.
Al-Andalus was literally the reason why Davie504 still slapped his bass until now. They're the ones who introduced the predecessor of guitar and bass to Europe, which the latter would spread it across the world via colonization.
Ottoman empire can be in the top 5, but not the 1st, it's cultural influence was so bad that it almost destroyed the Islamic scientific and intellectual progress the islam had before them. It had no clear religious orientation that you find them sometimes as Sufi while after you find them as hardcore sunnis who will suppress sufism They kept the Islamic world centuries behind the development that rised in Europe back then. As we still living some of the consequences related to their rule till this very day. In no 1 should be the Abbasid caliphate for sure where they made the society way ahead of their neighbor states in Europe or Asia, where they've made islam and Islamic literature valuable for non Muslims as well as for MUSLIMS. I understand your criteria but history tells us what happened
Yeah ottomans destroying islamic science meanwhile safavid , mughals , morocco ,memluks and other islamic states most civilesed islamic nations they are investing everything while ottomans destroying islamic science ... oh nooo someone please stop ottomans ... your logic is sooooo but sooo sensibel . Please history professor i want to go your college give me some advice how not be a commenter under the youtube comments ...
@@trollaccount3872 Sure you can join my school whenever you feel you're ready Because the logic you're speaking about isn't even used in your statement, who mentioned any thing about safavids or memluks ? The compare I have written was between Abbasid and ottoman, these two were caliphates by Islamic rules, you can't compare it to other states where they were sultans or amirs, this is nonsense I mentioned ottomans can be in top 5 because they had good points according to the criteria he used in the video, As well as I never mentioned any thing about the states you mentioned, this is not the thing i want to discuss, so please use logic next time and then you can join whatever history school you see it suitable for you
@@aliri2877 i know you are right about ottoman and science but just you talk about like this all fault of ottoman this is made me little angry so please dont piss of me but you right also i m acting little bit over react and i dont said about anything abbasid and science because you right about it ... so i m sorry for my over react ..." and my bad english "
Few things wrong with this video. 1) the peak of the Abbasids was actually like the Umayyads. 2) the rashidun were pretty stable until the last few years, meaning they should not have gotten 20 rather something like 70. 3) there is no 2 separate Umayyads dynasties. Since they were all under the Umayyad caliphate that we know of they simply had different leaders with different point of views. 4) by greatest what do you mean? If we are talking about achievements militarily it’s the Rashidun who are first since they are the only ones having took down. 2 superpowers. If we are talking about size it’s the Umayyads, the one who lasted the longest would be the ottomans and the greatest with achievements would be with thé Abbasids. So it varies in what do you mean by "greatest".
kudos on u to put the fatimids to her deserved recognition...despite being a sunni,most of sunni doesnt even know who actually founded azhar sharif n maulid celebration n impacted muslim world as a whole... they've should thanked to our shiite brothers
But he never mentioned their contributions to the non Shia Islamic world. In his view their only contribution was to Shiism which is just not true. They founded Cairo and Alazhar and solidified the Islamic system of learning. They had very little influence on modern day twelver Shiism.
I dont agree with the rankings but this is still a great video as an introduction to the various major islamic empires. Love your channel, one of the gems of youtube
9:19 I have 2 objections to this. First, that the Delhi Sultunate wasn't an empire. It's only a name used to collectively refer to the Muslim dynasties that ruled from Delhi before the Mughal Empire. And secondly, although there certainly was some cultural interactions between Hindus and Muslims in the Delhi Sultunate ( for instance, the Bhakti movement ), it wasn't until the Mughals ( or strictly speaking, until the reign of Akbar) that Indo Persian culture start to develop and become distinct in its own right. However, as always, I enjoyed your video very much. Your every new video comes up with new stories and information, and i'm always keen to watch it. Great job. Keep it up. Can't wait for the next one....
Why do you consider Sufyanid and Marwanid period Umayyad as two different dynasties but consider Mamluk, Khalji, and Tughlaq dynasties of the Delhi Sultanate as one dynasty?
Great video and good summation of some of the most important. I'm largely in agreement with much of your rankings (including putting the Ottomans on top in many ways) but I'd probably have included the Timurids (architecture alone is worth mention, no matter how evil Timur was and how unstable the empire was), and I would have separated the Rashidun Caliphate as in a class by itself. I'd also would have loved to have seen the Golden Horde and the Mali Kingdom mentioned.
My favorite would be the Umayyad Caliphate, Almoravids, Almohads and Nasrids. All that inhabited the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus) and brought us so many knowledge and influences that we treasure. No heart feelings. History is History. I'm not religious but we're all educated to respect every ethnicitiy, culture and religion. Best Regards from Portugal ❤🇵🇹
Kinda surprised that the Timuririds weren't on this list. They were massive and had a large impact on world history. Bubur the founder of the Mughal empire was a Timurid, Timur defeated and stalled the Ottomans for 50 years. Timur made the Golden horde into a husk of its former self, therefore exhilarating the rise of Moskow. ETC ETC ETC!!!!
@@AlMuqaddimahYT I get that you don't like Timur but you simply can't deny that the Timurids were one of the greatest Islamic empires. They controlled a massive area, they were probably the strongest state in the world during the reign of Timur, and they had a massive effect on the world. I do also believe that Timur would've conquered China if he hadn't died along the way.
This is quite impressive to be honest, I'm a Shi'i and an Ismaili hence the Fatimid Dynasty means a lot to me, but purely from a historical and overal cultural impact point of view, the rankings pretty much make sense. It was bold to keep the Rashidun Caliphate at the ranking you did though
@@mustafaali3333-q1m thanks for your suggestion which I never asked for, I respect the other Shias as I respect the Sunnis. Which should have been normal in an ideal world but here we are, busy in infighting while the whole world is oppressing our brethren
No one will agree on rankings because it’s not really possible to grade most of them. Also this list leaves out Malaya, and subSaharan African empires from Kilwa, to Songhai, to Sokoto, to Mali to Malaya. Maybe not “great” to us, but more culturally important to their regions. These are top 10. I would place Sokoto top 3. It’s the least known of the African empires but the most important. There wouldn’t be Islam in much of west Africa without them. As someone who has lived in Egypt, the Mameluks are far more noticeable culturally than Fatimids and Ayyubids even though the locals love the previous two. Why? No one likes to be ruled by foreigners, but it made Egypt who they are today.
At-Tabari reported: Umar ibn al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him, made peace with the people of Jerusalem at Al-Jabiya and therein he wrote a single covenant for every village besides Jerusalem: In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. This is what is granted of security by the servant of Allah, Umar, the commander of the faithful, to the people of Jerusalem. He grants them safety for their lives, their property, their churches, and their crucifixes, for their ill, their healthy, and their entire community. Their churches will not be occupied, demolished, or decreased in number. Their churches and crucifixes will not be desecrated and neither anything else of their property. They will not be coerced to abandon their religion and none of them will be harmed. Source: Taʼrīkh al-Ṭabarī 2/449
Very interesting. I would have replaced the ranking of the Fatimids with the Safavids, due to the huge influence they've had on the Indian Subcontinent and its Sultanates especially the Shia ones such as the Qutb Shahis of Golconda. And of course, this in addition to making Shi'ism the dominant presence in Iran, which isn't seen in the Fatimids case.
Fatimids literally built Al Azhar University among others things! They founded the city of Cairo!! And ismailis across the globe are followers of the Fatimids. Probably because they were a Shi'i Empire they're not as discussed as others, but they have a huge huge impact on many people today. Coming to the Indian subcontinent, our culture is mostly dominated by the Mughals, while in Deccan you can say Qutub Shahis have an influence, but not further than that.
I agree that the Safavids had influence on the Indian subcontinent but with both the Safavids and the fatimids, he only sees them as contributing to Shiism (and in the case of the Safavids Iran) and nothing else. I would say the Fatimids had a greater influence on the Arab world and the safavids on Iran and the Indian subcontinent.
I wouldn’t pick up the ottoman in first rank especially after they forbid early printer not adopted Arabic language And could you name me some Scholar or scientist in that era?
Very interesting, but I think Abbasid Empire should be number one because their age is the golden age of Islam, all the technical, philosophical, scientific ideas that developed at that age has an impact even today
Most successful : ottoman Most knowledge : Abbasid Most good role model for leader : Rashidun Most bad role model (except Umar bin Abdul Aziz) : Umayyad
I would love to agree with you but I have to disagree with Umayyad being the worst role model, that would go to the timurids if they were on this list. Timur killed more people than adolf Hitler, and murdered all women and children when he conquered
Duuuuude. The Almoravids had a huge impact on delaying the reconquista by some 400 years, even if they ruled for only a 100years they had a somewhat large stretch of land at their peak
I personally agree with your list , it was very well done 👏 Also the maps were very accurate which is something that people often ignore these days👌 Although I think you missed the Saffarid , Timurids , Afsharid , Zand & Ghaznavid empires..... *these 5 dynasties were also extremely important & influential in Persia, central Asia & India & have definitely changed the future of their subsequent regions !!! Although apart from the Saffarids none of them been much of a cultural impact , but nonetheless their conquests changed the region greatly* . You know many say that the Safavids are the reason why the Persian civilization became very powerful once again & also why Iran has the borders that it has today , but I actually beg to differ : *you see apart from the Samanids which totally brought in the Persian Renaissance* (which might be too strong of a word since even before their time , the Abbasid caliphate was greatly Persianized by the time the golden age of Islam began which was actually primarily centered in Persia ! So you could also say the Abbasids brought in the Persian Renaissance by agreeing to be influenced by the Persian culture & also the Abbasids had a greater cultural impact on the future of regions that they ruled over than that of the ottomans !!! I mean after all when the ottomans fell , everything they hold onto was lost & we can see their legacy only remaining to some degree in Turkey alone) But anyway I digress : so apart from the Samanids , *the Saffarids, the seljuks, the Mughals & even the ottomans were also greatly crucial in the revival & the come back of the Persian civilization & culture before the Safavids rose to power even* (Eventhough the Saffarids were the only Iranian ones , the rest were either turkic or mongolid & yet they all created very powerful empires & almost 90% of the times adopted the Persian culture & language & even spread it to regions that the Persians themselves had not reached even during their superpower full empires pre-islam) *Also if not for the Afsharid empire Iran wouldn't have been like this today at all !!! The Safavids were very powerful & influential I agree but they also fell nonetheless & their empire could have been very easily divided between the ottomans, the Russians & the Mughals had it not been for the Afsharid empire to crazily conquer everything back* ...... So I really think you sound consider adding the Afsharids , the Saffarids into your list & also give the Abbasids more cultural points or at least lower the cultural points of the ottomans.....
1/3 (5) of these are Turkic. Seljuk's are Turks, Mamlukes were Turkic, the Safavids were Turkic although there is a weird push to claim they are Kurdish for the past few years, even tough Shah Ismail's grandfather was from Ardabil, an Azerbaijani dominated town where he gathered a large Turkic following and was later exiled to Anatolia (diyarbakir), grand mother is Uzun Hasan's sister (Turkoman princes), and his mother is Uzun Hasan's daughter (another Turkoman princess), his wife is a Turkoman princess from a different tribe and their court language was Turkic, they wrote Turkic poems etc and spoke not a word of Kurdish. The Mughals were Turkic (the whole Mongol thing that they took from the Timurids, was purely because Timur liked to claim ancestry from Genghis, Central Asian leaders would claim ancestry from some legendary khan for legitimacy, for centuries they'd claim ancestry from the Ashina, only after Genghis did this change for obvious reasons) The Safavids became very Persianized and the Mughals were also very influenced by Persian culture. And lastly of course the Ottomans, who were one of the Turkic Beyliks (Lordships) under the Seljuks who after that empire crumbled started their own thing and united all the other Turkic Beyliks of Anatolia
The Almohads of Morocco ruled over Modern day Libya as well at their peak and they had a huge cultural Impact on North Africa and Spain. Almoravids should have been on the list as well since they ruled over most of north west Africa from the Senegal river up to Spain. Their leader Yusuf Ben Tachfin delayed the fall of muslim Spain for 400 years and it's thanks for their 'Ribats' or circles of islamic teachers that west Africa was converted to islam.
Mali Empire was already Muslim so I don't think they converted West Africa to Islam. Also, it was Granada which was ruled by an Arab dynasty (not Berber) which delayed the fall of the last Muslim stronghold in Spain.
Number 1 for me is the Rashidun Caliphate. During the rule of the first four caliphs, there was no barrier between the people and the rulers. The caliphs would walk, eat, talk and pray with the people.
2 of them were murdered by muslims!
And then the ummuyads came..
They are off the charts they shouldn't even be disrespected by being in this list
That is actually the problem of "CRITERIA". You can do any rank to any empire. The Bureau of Statistics does this all the time: i.e. manipulating the criteria.
yeah there's no monarch system. it was still simple tribal life style.
1:45 Ayyubids
2:24 Samanids
2:54 Sufyanids (Umayyad)
3:45 Al-Mohad
4:23 Umayyads in Cordoba
5:00 Seljuks
5:32 Mamluks
6:21 Safavids
7:04 Rashidun Caliphate
7:48 Mughals
8:31 Fatimids
9:15 Delhi Sultanate
10:01 Abbasids
11:07 Marwanids (Umayyad)
12:38 Ottomans
This video really just failed to mention the Almohads, Almoravids, Mali, Songhai, Ajuran, Adal and Kanem Bornu, all of these were very great African sultanates of their time, how did he forget to include all of them??🤦🏾 L video
No African Muslims empire? Wow this is nuts. European not recognizing us now is our muslim Brothers as well. The Mali empire was the most peaceful in the world
@@Africabeforecolonialpowers1111 yeah, and southeast asia too lol.
@@Africabeforecolonialpowers1111 he's not European... he's probably Pakistani.
@@Africabeforecolonialpowers1111 Salam from 🇹🇷
I love the way you divide Abd Malik ibn Marwan's Ummayad dynasty and Muawiyyah's Ummayad dynasty. I agreed. They should be considered as different dynasty.
Could u tell me why?
@@castle4757 Three reason. Firstly, as mentioned in the video, they were from different branch of family although all of them Ummayad. The first one came from Muawiyyah ibn Abu Sufyan and then his son Yazid and then his grandson Muawiyyah II. The second from Marwan ibn Al-Hakam. Muawiyyah, Marwan, and Uthman are cousins with each of them from different Ummayah branches.
Secondly, between first Ummayad (Sufyanid) and second Ummayad (Marwanid), there was a gap where Abu Bakr grandson, Abdullah ibn Zubayr ibn Al-Awwam, son of Asma, had defeated the first Ummayad dinasty and ruled significant area. It was until Abdul Malik ibn Marwan, the Ummayad family, now lead by different branched, had reconquered Arab.
Thirdly, both dynasties had different characteristic. The first Ummayad was simply ruled as tribal chief. The second Ummayad dynasty had more structure and bureaucracy. Abdul Malik ibn Marwan himself had legacy from standardized Arabic including made it compulsory language for all officials; designed and released his own currency, the first dinar; creating Qubbat as-Sakhrah (Dome of Rock). Compared to his predecessor, Abdul Malik ibn Marwan was knowledgeable in Islamic law by being born and raised in Madina. His policy was mentioned in Imam Malik ibn Anas' Muwatta.
@@kunderempthanks. Didnt knew about it.
@@kunderemp but in their era; they are a few in numbers so they considered themselves as one family not sufyanid nor marwanid, plus the Marwanid legitimacy came from sufyanid; as they saw themselves as continuation of Umayyad dynasty.
No.1 for me is Rashidun caliphate, the 4 caliphs were the best ppl of the ummah. Abu Bakr, Umar, Usman, Ali they were the best humanity can offer ❤️
Even the man of this channel would disagree with Utman.
They all died by sword.
@@mental9453 nope abu bakr didn't die by sword
no one cares about those dipshits, the Mughal Empire was at 25 percent of the world's GDP, the Ottomans Ratioed the Romans and the Safavids had always a huge cultural impact on the Islamic World.
I would set the Abbasids as the first. They sponsored the Islamic Golden Age, which was of ginormous importance for all the Western World. Basically we wouldn't have modern science without them. Under their rule lived al-Khwarizm, perhaps the greatest islamic scientist of all times. They defeated the chinese at the Battle of Talas in 751 and brought the use of paper to all the West (whose importance is very difficult to exaggerate). They founded Baghdad, a city that came to host at its peak the astonishing number of 1.2 million people (more than Rome in its glory), with a library and a study center maybe greater than its alexandrian precursor in the Hellenistic Age. It is true the Ottomans had a longlasting reign, but their empire was a truly international fearsome power for nearly 250 years (from c. 1400 to 1650). It is still longer than the effective Abbasid rule (750 - 860), but how many ottoman traits became so trascendent for the World in general, compared to the Abbasids? Anyway, it is an interesting excercise to encourage discussion.
Ma man why you keep sayin brought it to the West, importance for the West?? It was a great empire who had done the most significant achievements in history in many aspects. It was for Muslims first and to humanity. Period.
The Abbasids didnt care about the West cause at the time it wasnt a significant place. Theres no need to keep mentioning the West here the topic is about Muslim empires😉
@@at2429 The West is important because Muslims, most of them anyway, did not want that knowledge while the West certainly did..after a point.
The idea that without Islamic science there won’t be western science is kind of historical fantasy with mental gymnastics. We will never know. This is also true for Islamic science itself. Abbasids thirst for knowledge made them to translate almost all of the available Greek texts. So without prior Greek knowledge can they be Islamic science? Besides one of the premier accomplishments of Islamic science is the invention of algebra. But algebra is itself possible because of the invention of Indian/Hindu numerals which the abbasids incorporated.
All science is like that. Everyone learns from each other and adds their own. There is no point in thinking without this there won’t be that. What matters is that people keep learning and progressing, or risk stagnation, which clearly happened in the Islamic world from late medieval ages.
@@at2429 I think he ment rest but wrote west instead
I am turkish, but i agree.
The rashidun are the best according to the prophet (saw) himself. Also have you noticed they are the only ones whose name isn’t a tribe? Because they are the best.
he should have made it more clear that this video was about MATERIALISTIC perspective.
I don't care about the rankings much but this video can be an excellent introduction to Muslim dynasties for someone who's new to history
@hiooxkrmagkis9323 no, are you counting all 3 Umayyids as one?
@HardCore_Islamist* 15
Brilliant video. As a western non Muslim with a love of history and the medieval period, its often hard to untangle the middle easts history from political and religious biases. But your channel does just that with clear designations of when something is your opinion and what your information is based upon. Loving the channel and please keep up the good work.
Dude his channel is literally the apex of bias. Look at his Channel Description in the About section. He only speaks from a liberal point of view.
Just imagine for a second a video about the 15 "greatest" European Empires with such a positive tone... and with the "pretty cool" first one being the British Empire or something. Imagine the outrage that such a video would produce.
Do you not see that as a bad thing?
@@themercifulguard3971 What’s “liberal” to you?
@@sacha9593 Have you ever seen a Rome youtube channel before lmao. People can be excited about ancient political entities if they want.
It pleases me that the Ottomans were on number 1 on the list. Let’s not forget they only had one dynasty from start to finish with members from the house of Osman still being alive today which is pretty cool
Yeah but they became white and live in the uk. They look nothing like their Ottoman ancestors.
The Ottoman banned the printing press which is why muslim countries are undeveloped and weak
The ottoman never built a university or a city or a road
The ottoman rejected the renaissance
the ottoman rejected the enlightenment values
The ottoman rejected the industrial Revolution
@@12gmkk29 they built nursing houses for those who needed it. (Granted not an Ottoman invention but still). They conquered Constantinople, (nuff said!). They outlived they’re enemy empires. They were the last mediterrainian empire. Oh and also because of An Ottoman architect,(forgot his name): helped save and preserve Hagia Sophia. And they were the closest empire in size to The Roman Empire since the Roman Empire after Selim The Grims conquest
we are still going in a sense.
One is a comedian
Amazing video, and I definitely agree with your number one pick, even though in my heart the Rashidun Caliphate is number one. And even though a lot of people will hate you and try to fight you over this, I'll tell you, don't get discouraged by them you did a great job. We tend to view everything from a very religious perspective and this makes us very emotional about everything, not realising that sometimes in certain specific scenarios a secular view is more useful for proper analysis and in some other cases a religious view is more useful. Again wonderful video and best wishes to you from a fellow Muslim brother in Pakistan, shab-a-khair and an early Ramadan Mubarak😊
Religious view is the most important, ottomans were better materialisticly but materialism is temporary
The rashidun caliphate is the most influential in islamic history. Every region they gained was assimilated and never lost until today. Most ottoman territories were lost or returned to former situation, Barely anyone converted and they didn’t have a real cultural impact.
@Siraj Haq when the rashidun took persia, egypt and north africa, these regions accepted islam gradually despite not being arab. and by the end of the 4th hijri century they mostly became muslims. this did not happen in eastern europe and areas around black see which the ottomans controlled for 500 years. the ottomans were the most overrated islamic empite ever. they did protect muslim lands for some time but the decline of islamic culture was clear
@Siraj Haq this is not how you discuss history. we are discussing empires from the prespective of islam. and placing ottomans as number 1 is very unfortunate.
@@youtubeexpert2441 yeah..by actually being tolerant..what u thing those ppls in persia n egypt actually openheartedly converted to islam..not without the inquisition of paganism n islamic privileges...the ottomans really did practice stable administrative system which lasted more than 200 years
@@curiosity-educationalchann1041 not accurate at all. egypt and persia people did openheartedly convert gradually. it took them 2-4 hundred years to do so. eventually egypt even became arab under the fatimid. all of this happened because of stable government and cultural achevements of the early islamic empires.. which were much more superior to the ottomans. the ottomans were not interested in culture or religion.. all they wanted was european slaves and tribute from local populations. the locals were not impressed at all.
@@youtubeexpert2441 really dude...who make arabic compulsory...who created dhimmi taxes...n how to climb social stairs...if all that doesn't exist who wanna change faith...if u said the otto doesnt interested in cultural achievement...can u see the landscape of Constantinople, who sent armada to protect muslim in acheh n diu
Syawish, you have, as usual, delivered a truly captivating and informative video. I love learning about the beautiful, unique and inspiring history of Islam and the heartland of the Islamic world.
I am very grateful to you for the very hard work you put into every single video you do.
May God bless you
Well, to say that previous empires only conquered and taxed is kind of a wrong statement to make. Umar Ibn Khattab is the main point in all of this. He introduced several reforms, some of which were used by several people across the centuries, even by Akbar of all people.
Some of which were establishing a secret spy network to keep an eye on all of his governors and constantly moving them around to ensure they don't build much power. He also appointed officials based on merits and those merits would constantly be checked routinely to see if they were living up to it. He also held considerable power since he was able to dismiss a person like Khalid Ibn Al-Walid by simply giving the order and facing little to no resistance. He also told his soldiers that none of them could buy territory in conquered lands, to ensure no imbalance of power (which happened during Umar's reign). These are by no means small feat, as he was able to keep almost all the citizens of the Caliphate satisfied through his smart administration.
There were also social reforms, like introducing a welfare system which would carry itself to the modern day. He started using the money in the Bayt Al-Mal, taken from the Zakat, and distributing it among the poor, orphans, widows, disabled among others. He also established several Religious reforms as well.
The same was the case of Mu'awiya, who led several reforms and unique ideas. You can't simply ignore their contributions and deem the empires as "not doing much."
I agreed that Umar's ijtihad was considered amazing but his successor, Uthman, only able to maintained that reform for the first 5-6 years. Later on, he succumbed into tribal practice which led Egypt people revolted. Uthman's successor, Ali, did not get approval from both Egypt and Syria. Basically, whatever reform Umar has done, most of them were crumbled in his successor's era. Umar was ahead of his time.
It was Abdul Malik ibn Marwan, the forgotten founder of the second Ummayad dynasty who really established continuous policy system. He was the first caliph who made Arabic language and Arabic script compulsory. One of his ijtihad even mentioned by Malik ibn Anas in latter's Muwatta. Abd Malik ibn Marwan also the first caliph who published his own coin in his own designed, the first dinar.
Great list but I'm curious if who got left off, basically who would have occupied 20-15. The Ghaznavids, Almoravids, Mali, Songhai, Bornu and Timurids come to mind.
Ilkhanate, Golden Horde, Chagatai Khanate, Tahirids, Safarids, Samanids, Ghurids, Hamdanids, Omani Empire (which was Ibadi), Sokoto Caliphate, Gujarat, the Hyderabad State in south India (which was Shi'ite), Qajars, Afsharids, and Zand all come to mind (with the choices you listed) that could potentially be in a 30-15 listing.
then there are the Islamic states in Southeast Asia (Malacca, Brunei, etc...)
Almoravid empire, Merinid empire, Saadian empire, Alauite empire.
To be fair, the Timurids probably have negative stability points and negative cultural points too, so of course they would not be on this list
By the way, Al-Muqaddimah literally has an empire with 0 points on it, because that makes sense.
@@Skip-Kilat very underrated though 3rd Earliest Shia Sultanate which Pereulak located in South East Asian.Also Kedah Sultanate which in criminally underrated since their dynasty remain unchanged from 630 AD (They are Hindu-Buddist at first) though this are debatable
9:48 "For starting the conversion of Islam to India"
Man, can't believe the region of Islam converted to India.
😂😂Bruh he might have made a mistake, chillax
MALI EMPIRE!!!
Dear brother, first of all thank you for your amazing work as usual.
The Mali empire was founded in 1226 by the Great warrior Sundjata Keita. It lasted more than 450 years.
One great and known figure of its empire was Mansa Musa who holds the title of the wealthiest man to ever live.
Mansa Musa traveled with a huge amount of gold on his way to Mecca and came back with his cars filled with books. It is said that he caused a great depreciation of gold for how much he had given on his journey to Mecca. Europe even was not spared economically.
He founded one the greatest libraries of time, and perhaps the greatest of Africa history (yes it is believed to be greater than Alexandria's).
Another important figure, but unfortunately no so well known is Abu Bakr II, known as Abu Bakr the Explorer. Abu Bakr is the predecessor of Mansa Musa. He gave the Empire responsibility to Musa after the first naval expedition to the America's. Yes he's been there before Christopher Colombus.
Abu Bakr was not sure to come back after his second expedition and that is why he gave the succession of the empire to Musa. Unfortunately he never came back.. The last known record of the expedition is some of the ships that came back and reported to loose contact due to a heavy storm.
In the America's, could be found black skinned people prior to the triangle trade (the great African slave trade). Muslim names and mosques were recorded on the Journal de Bord of the European's first contacts in the America's (if we exclude the idea that vikings were to set foot on North American continent prior to Colombus). It is also believed that the Malian were the ones to increase blacksmith skills of the native American at the time.
The Malian Empire was very famous for its administrative and ruling system. I have so much content that I can share if anyone is interested.
AND isn't the Malay empire worth talking about?! 😂
Once again brother, thank you very much for your content. I discovered only recently your channel and hope soon to be an active donor. Bless you
Native americans didnt knew iron working, something they would have known if malian smiths would have taugth theem.
The spanish explorers didnt found anything muslim, so it seems that he used mosque as synonym of non christian temple.
Muslim names? Where?
If we exclude the idea that vikings were to set foot on american ground? Thats not an idea but a fact. We found Viking settlements
15.Ayyubid Sultanate 1174-1260
14.Samanid Sultanate 900-999
13.Umayyad Caliphate (Sufyanid)
665-689
12.Almohad Caliphate 1121-1269
11.Córdoba Caliphate 754-1031
10.Seljuk Sultanate 1037-1153
09.Mamluk Sultanate 1260-1517
08.Safavid Shahdom 1501-1736
07.Rashidun Caliphate 632-661
06.Mughal Sultanate 1526-1757
05.Fatimid Caliphate 909-1171
04.Delhi Sultanate 1206-1526
03.Abbasid Caliphate 750-946
02.Umayyad Caliphate (Marwanid)
692-750
01.Ottoman Caliphate 1299-1922
Might I add honorable mentions of:
-Almoravid Dynasty 1040-1147
-Mali Empire 1235-1670
-Songhai Empire 1464-1591
-Malacca Sultanate 1400-1511
-Timurid Sultanate 1370-1507
Im going to add another honorable mention: Ajuraan Sultanate in modern day Somalia.
Also add Kanem, it lasted much longer than most
Why does everybody forget Ghaznavid Empire? That Empire should have been in the video
The Malacca sultanate is so underrated. So are its successors (and its Islamic predecessors). It deserves a mention somewhere in this list.
This list is based on numbers, as was explained in the beginning and pretty much throughout the video.
this list entirely ignore southeast asia and subsahara africa.
@@rizkyadiyanto7922I think even the songhai or Mali will not make it tho the list just by based in the calculations no heart feeling, but remember the almohad its present
There are many kingdoms and sultanates that is not in fertile crescent and anatolia area.. those too can be recognized as great islamic country.
Like Jogjakarta and Surakarta. Also Malaya and Brunei. Pattani, Sulu, Aceh, Banten and many more.
Happy Ramadan to all my muslim brothers.
The Golden Horde under the rule of Bereka khan, Uzbek khan, Tokthamish
Were they Islamic?
@@yavuz3951they were
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Al Muqaddimah
8:44 Quick question: You said the Fatimid Caliphate essentially built the Shi'a faith; what about the three Buyid emirates of Shiraz, Rayy, and Baghdad? That point in Muslim history was called the "Shi'ite Century" because the two of them (grouping all the Buyids together) were the powerhouses of the Muslim world at the time. Did the Buyids not contribute anything of significance to building Shi'ism?
The Fatimids were Ismaili, which is not the largest sect of Shia islam today, it is twelver. I agree with you I think it was the Buyids and Safavids which created modern day twelver Shia islam. In fact in my opinion the Fatimids did almost nothing to create modern day Shia islam, look at north Africa today and you will very little Shia communities, which says something considering many areas where people are Shia were not spread because of an empire but because of local communities.
@@tortoisewarrior4855 Yes I am aware Twelver Shi'ism/ Imamism is largest sect today, thanks to the Safavids in the 1500's and then the Qajars and most every other Iranian power since then keeping it as the state religion up to today.
I don't have enough knowledge on this but, I would find it hard to believe the Fatimids didn't contribute anything long-lasting towards Shi'ism.
He is incorrect about the fatimids. The buyids and the Safavids created modern day Shia Islam and the abbasid empire in Baghdad was far more important to modern day twelver Islam than the Fatimid empire ever will be. His understanding of Shiism is limited unfortunately. He is also unable to see how the Shia Fatimid empire could influence the greater Muslim world instead of just shias.
Maybe you should have added the Mali empire they lasted a long time, had great influence on the culture and they were quite large at there peak.
@Jarell Williams Songhai was not more stable than Mali. After Askia Muhammad's death the story of the empire was basically just his sons and grandsons murdering each other for the throne. Mali also actually lasted longer than Songhai.
@Jarell Williams Math would kinda screw the Songhai empire as it didn't last close to as long and wasn't as big.
I was sure there was going to be some April fool's joke, so when you reached 3rd place I was really afraid because there were no real contenders left but the ottomans and abbasids, and for the whole time I was afraid you were going to put the timurids in 1st place and praise Tamerlane or something. At the end you just counted the marwanids as a different empire, and I breathed a sigh of relief because it was then obvious the Ottomans will be in first place, but that was still pretty tense.
Shukr Allah that he did not include tamerlane in this list. The supposed "Scourge of Islam" that killed muslims more than kufaar
@@salar7902 of course, I know tamer lane was awful, that's why I thought he'd put him in first place, since this video was uploaded on April fool's.
@asahi toki the rashidun were obviously extremely culturally important in creating Islam during its formative years, but the other Islamic caliphates such as the umayyads and abbasids were politically and militarily more successful, and anyways the ottomans ruled for such a long time as an extremely dominant power that while I personally think that the earlier caliphates were greater, the ottomans were more important than the rashiduns. I personally would have ordered it ummayad-rashidun-ottoman-abbasid, but as al-muqqadima said he got this list algorithmically rather than based on his personal opinion.
@asahi toki 80% of known world? Known to whom?
Great video! Well played!
I’d kindly like to add the Malian Empire and the Sultanate of Rûm as honorable mentions.
Once again, fabulous job!
i think we should include sultanate of rum as an somehow continuation for seljuks (which increase their points)
Videos about Muslim empires of bilad al Sudan, Songhay, Mali, Kanem Bornou please 🙏
Great job brother! but you ain’t mention one West or East African empire. Which is a screenshoot at our problem when studying Islamic history.
Agreed no African empires mentioned
Or South East Asian Empires
He was talking about top 15 not every empire or kingdom
Fantastic video I’m really amazed that Timuririds weren’t included.
I’d suggest population is a more important metric than square kilometres… especially when there are so many (nearly) empty deserts in the region
You have officialy been elevated to the status of my favourite youtuber ! :)
cultural and historical impact should have bigger weight than what you have given, in my opinion. but you have a pretty good list.
My picks would be:
1. Rashidun
2. Umayyad (all branches)
3. Abbasid
4. Ottoman
5. Seljuk
6. Fatimid
7. Mughal
8. Safavid
9. Mamluk
The impact of these empires are still felt today.
- the impact of the first 3 caliphates can never be understated, and especially the Rashidun, the direct successor of The Prophet and brought to heel two great empires and two great religions. they basically formed the core Muslim world that still exists today. if that's not the greatest cultural impact, I don't know what is.
- the longevity and power and influence of the ottomans prevented european culture and religion to penetrate and return to western asia at a time of european rise and caused them to explore westward... and we all know how that turned out.
- when the seljuks won in manzikert it caused the byzantines to call for european aid and the crusades were born that led to conflicts still felt and even fought today.
- the Fatimids and the Safavids established the Shi'a faith which still shapes the modern Islamic geopolitics to this day.
- And the Mughals cultural impact on the Indian subcontinent especially India and Pakistan we can still see to this day. and they have the most beautiful physical legacy of these empires: the Taj Majal
- the Mamluks' biggest claims to fame is that they stopped the Mongols from conquering the Levant and Egypt. and removed the last strongholds of crusading christianity from western Asia. modern-day Egypt is also their legacy.
I would agree in most lf this except the Seljuks, while they were almost unstoppable force, thier rein didn't last long nor thier cultural influence, they didn't build any major cities nor they contrubuted much to islamic culture so i will put the fatimades under the ottmans, for the reason of building the biggest and most influential capital in Africa, and creating many cultural and traditional Islamic heritage, a fun fact the lamp we use in ramadan originated from the fatimades
for cultural impact, sultanates in SE asia have bigger role in their respective region. such as sultanate of Aceh, Demak, Mataram, Malaka, and Brunei.
Ofc, cultural and historical effect are more important, i mean thats the reason why he put modest-in-size Al-Andalus on the list rather than the massive Timurid Empire on the list, wasnt he?
Without Al-Andalus Davie504 would probably never slap his bass now.
great video dude, I wish more people made videos like this
I am not surprised that the Ottoman Empire made it as the number one on this list. Also, you're right about math. Sometimes, they like to give us answers that contradict whatever that is in our minds.
@asahi toki the mongols conquered more land than the rashidum caliphate in less time
Really great video.i can see the amount of time spent on this video
3:45 the Almohads were notorious for their orthodoxy and intolerance... Something that is in contrast with other tolerant Muslim dynasties that ruled Spain.
According to western sources !!!
One thing to add about the Umayyad Caliphate of Cordoba is that the modern Spanish language still has traces from the Arabic language. I believe some 5000-6000 words (but this can be debated) of the modern Spanish language is derived from Arabic. That’s also some cultural influence.
would have loved if you also added things military prowess, population, economy and life quality.
I may be somewhat biased because I'm Kazakh but Golden Horde should be somewhere at the bottom of this list, it is often seen as a continuation of a Mongol Empire and nothing more but actually it became an empire of its own with a distinct culture, it was mostly ruled by Kipchaks("Turkic" tribes) and this guys managed to control quite a vast area in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Russian kingdoms were subjugated to them for 2 centuries. Sadly they were mostly a nomadic merchants who only conquered and collected goods and taxes but didn't left much from architecture, books and scientists.
True. Golden Horde should've been on the list but they kept alternating between Muslims and non-Muslims for a while so, I put them aside.
It was only a 'muslim' empire for its second half of existence as far as I know
Their rulers were most likely Merkits also not real chinggisids
@@AlMuqaddimahYT in Altun Orda/Golden Horde
Shamanism and Sunni Islam but saw in Ilkhanid Khanate
Budizsm and Christisan to Islam
@@chraman169all horde of Nogai saw Sunni Islam
Five Great Islamic Empires (imo)
1.The Ottoman Empire.
2.The Abbasid Caliphate.
3.The Umayyad Caliphate
4.The Mughal Empire.
5.The Safavid Empire.
Wtf ottomans on the bottom lol
1 2 3 4 ( was sunni islam) but number 5 is shiaa so they are not islam
Were there Islamic empires in the South East Asia? I’ve heard that Islam had a huge influence to the Austronesian people mainly in modern day Indonesia - Malaysia
Good picks! but unsatisfying nevertheless since everyone has different priorities
This video really just failed to mention the Almoravids, Mali, Songhai, Ajuran, Adal and Kanem Bornu, all of these were very great African sultanates of their time, how did he forget to include all of them??🤦🏾 L video
I was hoping to see them too but nope. From Spain to India but no west African 🤦🏽♂️ 🧐
Damn African never get any love.
They're all great, but not great enough to be in the top 15
@@karimmezghiche9921 really? Not one? Kanem Borno was compared to where Noah's arc landed in glowing terms by an Islamic scholar
That’s sad, but Thanks for letting me know about these empires
When you stated the criteria I saw the Ottomans coming to the top...
yea 600 years of rule sounds pretty damn stable. the Ottomans encompassed all of the early modern era and brought islamic and turkish influence into anatolia and europe and only died because they were conquered, and even then maintained quite alot of territory afterwards as Turkey
the early ottoman empire also showed good tolerance of different cultures and religions, ruling a multicultural empire like the mongols. it's sad tho near their end they became extremely xenophobic with forced conversions, expulsions, and genocides
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@@lesussie2237 this was due to the young turk regime
@@lesussie2237 I disagree. Ottomans actually became more tolerant in their last century. A look into Tanzimat and Islahat Reform will prove my point. To fight nationalism, Ottomans adopted the idea of Ottomanism, that every Ottoman citizen was equal under law no matter their religion.
The only systematic mass conversions in the Ottoman Empire were in sieges and in Janissary Guild to recruited Christian boys. Sieges weren't happening because 1. it's 1800's already and 2. Ottomans were pretty weak. And Janissary Guild and Devshirme System were both abolished by Mahmud II.
In Islahat and Tanzimat Reforms, Ottomans gave non-Muslims equal rights and equal responsibilities. Jizya was abolished in 1856 and non-Muslims could hold government positions, Donizetti Pasha is an example. Also, since they had equal responsibilities, they had to serve in army like Turks did. Neither non-Muslims nor Islamists liked that serving in army part, so they instead required a special tax that would take the place of military service.
World War I is a different story. Before the war, there weren't too much ethnic problems. However Armenian gangs rebelling for independence with Russian support during the war made Ottomans overreact by quite a lot. Young Turks actually had many Armenian members prior to war (only 1 person among the people who told Abdulhamid II that he was overthrown was Turkish. 2 were Armenian and 1 was Greek or Jewish if I remember right.) but when all the factors like local Turks and Kurds being angry at Armenians because of rebel attacks to villages; famine, forced migration, etc. combined, events quickly escalated to mass murder.
@@kmmmsyr9883 the problem wasn't the tolerance or the tanzimat reforms of the empire but were young turks a nationalist movement that proved fatal for the empire the biggest enemy of the empire were inner traitors
Honorable mentions ; Ghaznavids, Ilkhanids, Timurids, Aghlabids, White Sheep Turcomans, Afsharids, Khwarezmids, Golden Horde, Sultanate of Rum, Kara-Khanids
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@@papazataklaattiranimam Timurids and the Sultanate fo Rum should've been in the top 15 for sure they left much more Islamic heritage compared to some of the ones in the video 😐
@@nenenindonu ayyubids, cordoba and samanids 😬
@@papazataklaattiranimam Cordoba's already an Umayyad faction, and yes theres no way the other 2 making it to the top 15
Just to fix a point. Akkoyunlular written as Aq Qoyunlu since the Word itself is a Name thus it cannot be Translated
Assalam Alaikum Almuqaddimah,
I really enjoy your content and I hope you keep going and get this wonderful content mashallah exposed to more and more people in the future.
I wanted to suggest, if you dont have any other plans, whether you could do a brief video on Yemen's history before and after islam.
Many this channel is awesome and accurate I wish I join patreon
You totally forgot about Sultanate of Malacca in South East Asia. The 1st Islamic empire in SEA which conqured and ruled most part SEA during the year from 1400 till 1511.
No its not,malacca only control malay peninsula and west coast sumatera.brunei sultanate actually bigger than them and even outlived them even though they exist before malacca
the malacca sultanate was great but it definitely was NOT first and did NOT rule most parts of SE Asia lmao. it only ruled most of the malay peninsular and some parts of Sumatra. Brunei Sultanate was older and had more land. Even Aceh Sultanate lasted longer than Malacca.
As-Salamalaikum great stuff keep it rolling Ahki/Brother.Jzk.
Assalamualikum.
Can you plz make a channal which's focus is on the history of the prophets of Islam?
Basicaly in that channal you tell the stories of the prophets and also on the mythology of Islam.
Great video man. Came to know about a couple of Islamic Dynasties. Thanks
Mashallah 🇹🇷, 5 of the 15, including the number 1, are turks
6
Which 5 or 6?
Nice video bro :) I am very happy that we have objective historical islamic youtubers like you bro :)
i didn't know that the Ummayyads have two seperate branches before this video, thanks !
The Emirate of Cordoba was an offshoot of the Umayyads just as Seljuk Rum was one of the Great Seljuks
@@nenenindonu except the following dynasty tried to completely kill off the Umayyads but missed one who fled to spain
Ramadan Mubarak
Missing the Almoravids whom came after the Almohads the lands was the entire Iberia "Andalucia" to what is now Mauritania and the Capital was Marrakech. Also the Saadi dinasty which ruled over Mali, Sénégal,Niger.
they were not that known tbh
Great knowledge brother
The Timurids had two Empires, one in Central Asia and Iran, it was called "Iran and Turan", and the other was the Mughal Empire which was called "Hindustan".
as an Ottoman Empire enjoyer I see this as an absolute win
I am shocked the Timurids didn’t make the list, they are one of the most powerful and feared Islamic Empires of all time.
Yeah, me too. Timur was one of the most feared men of that era. Interestingly enough, in the 1500s, Babur, a Timurid prince from Ferghana (modern Uzbekistan), invaded Kabulistan (modern Afghanistan) and established a small kingdom there. 20 years later, he used this kingdom as a staging ground to invade the Delhi Sultanate in India and establish the Mughal Empire. This is why I love History, everything is connected in some way.
Al-Andalus was literally the reason why Davie504 still slapped his bass until now.
They're the ones who introduced the predecessor of guitar and bass to Europe, which the latter would spread it across the world via colonization.
Ottoman empire can be in the top 5, but not the 1st, it's cultural influence was so bad that it almost destroyed the Islamic scientific and intellectual progress the islam had before them.
It had no clear religious orientation that you find them sometimes as Sufi while after you find them as hardcore sunnis who will suppress sufism
They kept the Islamic world centuries behind the development that rised in Europe back then.
As we still living some of the consequences related to their rule till this very day.
In no 1 should be the Abbasid caliphate for sure where they made the society way ahead of their neighbor states in Europe or Asia, where they've made islam and Islamic literature valuable for non Muslims as well as for MUSLIMS.
I understand your criteria but history tells us what happened
Yeah ottomans destroying islamic science meanwhile safavid , mughals , morocco ,memluks and other islamic states most civilesed islamic nations they are investing everything while ottomans destroying islamic science ... oh nooo someone please stop ottomans ... your logic is sooooo but sooo sensibel . Please history professor i want to go your college give me some advice how not be a commenter under the youtube comments ...
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Sure you can join my school whenever you feel you're ready
Because the logic you're speaking about isn't even used in your statement, who mentioned any thing about safavids or memluks ?
The compare I have written was between Abbasid and ottoman, these two were caliphates by Islamic rules, you can't compare it to other states where they were sultans or amirs, this is nonsense
I mentioned ottomans can be in top 5 because they had good points according to the criteria he used in the video,
As well as I never mentioned any thing about the states you mentioned, this is not the thing i want to discuss, so please use logic next time and then you can join whatever history school you see it suitable for you
@@aliri2877 i know you are right about ottoman and science but just you talk about like this all fault of ottoman this is made me little angry so please dont piss of me but you right also i m acting little bit over react and i dont said about anything abbasid and science because you right about it ... so i m sorry for my over react ..." and my bad english "
Nice 👏👏
Few things wrong with this video.
1) the peak of the Abbasids was actually like the Umayyads.
2) the rashidun were pretty stable until the last few years, meaning they should not have gotten 20 rather something like 70.
3) there is no 2 separate Umayyads dynasties. Since they were all under the Umayyad caliphate that we know of they simply had different leaders with different point of views.
4) by greatest what do you mean? If we are talking about achievements militarily it’s the Rashidun who are first since they are the only ones having took down. 2 superpowers. If we are talking about size it’s the Umayyads, the one who lasted the longest would be the ottomans and the greatest with achievements would be with thé Abbasids. So it varies in what do you mean by "greatest".
Abbasids never ruled Muslim Hispania or Morocco and it only reached its peak during the rule of Caliph Al Mutawakil.
@@Emir_969 It did actually but for only a couple few years. But I don’t think Spain was in tho. May be wrong.
kudos on u to put the fatimids to her deserved recognition...despite being a sunni,most of sunni doesnt even know who actually founded azhar sharif n maulid celebration n impacted muslim world as a whole... they've should thanked to our shiite brothers
But he never mentioned their contributions to the non Shia Islamic world. In his view their only contribution was to Shiism which is just not true. They founded Cairo and Alazhar and solidified the Islamic system of learning. They had very little influence on modern day twelver Shiism.
You missed the Bengal Sultanate
Yea, i am from Bengal sultanate
Make a video about Bengal Sultanate
My List
Rashidun Caliphate
Abbasid Caliphate
Ummayad Caliphate(Includes Andalus)
Mughal Empire
Ottoman Empire
Delhi Saltanate
Timurid Empire
Ghaznavid Empire
SELJUQ Empire
Fatamid Caliphate
Safavid Empire
I dont agree with the rankings but this is still a great video as an introduction to the various major islamic empires. Love your channel, one of the gems of youtube
9:19 I have 2 objections to this. First, that the Delhi Sultunate wasn't an empire. It's only a name used to collectively refer to the Muslim dynasties that ruled from Delhi before the Mughal Empire.
And secondly, although there certainly was some cultural interactions between Hindus and Muslims in the Delhi Sultunate ( for instance, the Bhakti movement ), it wasn't until the Mughals ( or strictly speaking, until the reign of Akbar) that Indo Persian culture start to develop and become distinct in its own right.
However, as always, I enjoyed your video very much. Your every new video comes up with new stories and information, and i'm always keen to watch it.
Great job. Keep it up. Can't wait for the next one....
Delhi Sultanate = 5 different empires
Ramadan mubarak
Why do you consider Sufyanid and Marwanid period Umayyad as two different dynasties but consider Mamluk, Khalji, and Tughlaq dynasties of the Delhi Sultanate as one dynasty?
Based question :-)
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Great video and good summation of some of the most important. I'm largely in agreement with much of your rankings (including putting the Ottomans on top in many ways) but I'd probably have included the Timurids (architecture alone is worth mention, no matter how evil Timur was and how unstable the empire was), and I would have separated the Rashidun Caliphate as in a class by itself. I'd also would have loved to have seen the Golden Horde and the Mali Kingdom mentioned.
Agreed Akhi
My favorite would be the Umayyad Caliphate, Almoravids, Almohads and Nasrids. All that inhabited the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus) and brought us so many knowledge and influences that we treasure. No heart feelings. History is History. I'm not religious but we're all educated to respect every ethnicitiy, culture and religion.
Best Regards from Portugal ❤🇵🇹
nasrids were a bunch of noones, they left nothing except the alhambra.
Almoravids? What left the almoravids?
Thank u my friend❤
I think the Malacca sultanate deserves a mention
We want the top largest Islamic Empire for the next Video.
Kinda surprised that the Timuririds weren't on this list. They were massive and had a large impact on world history. Bubur the founder of the Mughal empire was a Timurid, Timur defeated and stalled the Ottomans for 50 years. Timur made the Golden horde into a husk of its former self, therefore exhilarating the rise of Moskow. ETC ETC ETC!!!!
I included the Mughals. That's more than enough for Timur's descendants.
@@AlMuqaddimahYT I get that you don't like Timur but you simply can't deny that the Timurids were one of the greatest Islamic empires. They controlled a massive area, they were probably the strongest state in the world during the reign of Timur, and they had a massive effect on the world. I do also believe that Timur would've conquered China if he hadn't died along the way.
@@nuralibolataev4474 Taymur is death before invasion to Ming China
Is that what you're gonna do today, Nurali? You're gonna make logical arguments against my emotional ones?!
@@AlMuqaddimahYT you deserve it.
Love youre videos…you shoude make a video about islam in bosnia❤️
This is quite impressive to be honest, I'm a Shi'i and an Ismaili hence the Fatimid Dynasty means a lot to me, but purely from a historical and overal cultural impact point of view, the rankings pretty much make sense. It was bold to keep the Rashidun Caliphate at the ranking you did though
Convert to twelver Shia
@@mustafaali3333-q1m why would he convert, its you that are wrong
@@mustafaali3333-q1m twelver Shia is even more mythological than Ismaili
@@mustafaali3333-q1m thanks for your suggestion which I never asked for, I respect the other Shias as I respect the Sunnis. Which should have been normal in an ideal world but here we are, busy in infighting while the whole world is oppressing our brethren
@@mufaddal2152 salam alaikum. I am your fellow Ismaili. Are you Nizari or Tayyibi Ismaili?
nice video
No one will agree on rankings because it’s not really possible to grade most of them. Also this list leaves out Malaya, and subSaharan African empires from Kilwa, to Songhai, to Sokoto, to Mali to Malaya. Maybe not “great” to us, but more culturally important to their regions. These are top 10. I would place Sokoto top 3. It’s the least known of the African empires but the most important. There wouldn’t be Islam in much of west Africa without them. As someone who has lived in Egypt, the Mameluks are far more noticeable culturally than Fatimids and Ayyubids even though the locals love the previous two. Why? No one likes to be ruled by foreigners, but it made Egypt who they are today.
Time always changes .... Nothing will be remain as it is now .... Old one will go away new one will always come
At-Tabari reported: Umar ibn al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him, made peace with the people of Jerusalem at Al-Jabiya and therein he wrote a single covenant for every village besides Jerusalem: In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. This is what is granted of security by the servant of Allah, Umar, the commander of the faithful, to the people of Jerusalem. He grants them safety for their lives, their property, their churches, and their crucifixes, for their ill, their healthy, and their entire community. Their churches will not be occupied, demolished, or decreased in number. Their churches and crucifixes will not be desecrated and neither anything else of their property. They will not be coerced to abandon their religion and none of them will be harmed.
Source: Taʼrīkh al-Ṭabarī 2/449
Al Tabri also has written about crimes of omer in Iran , raping to boy's and women and makeing blood river's in nehavand
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Rape is haram and punishable by death in Islam
The owner of this channel is a very brave man, he is trying to carry a lamp to the darkest places in history
Very interesting. I would have replaced the ranking of the Fatimids with the Safavids, due to the huge influence they've had on the Indian Subcontinent and its Sultanates especially the Shia ones such as the Qutb Shahis of Golconda. And of course, this in addition to making Shi'ism the dominant presence in Iran, which isn't seen in the Fatimids case.
Fatimids literally built Al Azhar University among others things! They founded the city of Cairo!! And ismailis across the globe are followers of the Fatimids. Probably because they were a Shi'i Empire they're not as discussed as others, but they have a huge huge impact on many people today. Coming to the Indian subcontinent, our culture is mostly dominated by the Mughals, while in Deccan you can say Qutub Shahis have an influence, but not further than that.
The Fatimids were greater, however the Shia faith predated both by a lone time.
@@salamyaya162 and that's not debatable. The point of discussion here is the impact the kingdoms had on the current world
@mufaddal2152 while I agree with you, he doesn’t seem to think that the founding of alazhar and Cairo are worthy enough of mention.
I agree that the Safavids had influence on the Indian subcontinent but with both the Safavids and the fatimids, he only sees them as contributing to Shiism (and in the case of the Safavids Iran) and nothing else. I would say the Fatimids had a greater influence on the Arab world and the safavids on Iran and the Indian subcontinent.
I wouldn’t pick up the ottoman in first rank especially after they forbid early printer not adopted Arabic language
And could you name me some Scholar or scientist in that era?
Very interesting, but I think Abbasid Empire should be number one because their age is the golden age of Islam, all the technical, philosophical, scientific ideas that developed at that age has an impact even today
Islam was made in the Abbasid and Umayyad periods
Agree
Best place to learn about islamic history, sadly no arab channel is even close to this, wish u the best
Are you sure ?
I’d imagine Mali would also be in this list, along with the Timurids.
Timurids arent great but more like terrifying
Mali empire was pretty insignificant
@@MERG69 not really
'They had remarkable stability! this came mainly, as the rulers killed their brothers...' I wasn't expecting that
You forgot the Mali Empire and Malacca Sultanate.
ok u got alot more subs and likes than when i last saw ur channel 1 year ago congrats
Most successful : ottoman
Most knowledge : Abbasid
Most good role model for leader : Rashidun
Most bad role model (except Umar bin Abdul Aziz) : Umayyad
I would love to agree with you but I have to disagree with Umayyad being the worst role model, that would go to the timurids if they were on this list. Timur killed more people than adolf Hitler, and murdered all women and children when he conquered
Duuuuude. The Almoravids had a huge impact on delaying the reconquista by some 400 years, even if they ruled for only a 100years they had a somewhat large stretch of land at their peak
Yes the ruled far more land than showed it strechet till liybia in east and Mali to the south
I personally agree with your list , it was very well done 👏
Also the maps were very accurate which is something that people often ignore these days👌
Although I think you missed the Saffarid , Timurids , Afsharid , Zand & Ghaznavid empires..... *these 5 dynasties were also extremely important & influential in Persia, central Asia & India & have definitely changed the future of their subsequent regions !!! Although apart from the Saffarids none of them been much of a cultural impact , but nonetheless their conquests changed the region greatly* .
You know many say that the Safavids are the reason why the Persian civilization became very powerful once again & also why Iran has the borders that it has today , but I actually beg to differ :
*you see apart from the Samanids which totally brought in the Persian Renaissance* (which might be too strong of a word since even before their time , the Abbasid caliphate was greatly Persianized by the time the golden age of Islam began which was actually primarily centered in Persia ! So you could also say the Abbasids brought in the Persian Renaissance by agreeing to be influenced by the Persian culture & also the Abbasids had a greater cultural impact on the future of regions that they ruled over than that of the ottomans !!! I mean after all when the ottomans fell , everything they hold onto was lost & we can see their legacy only remaining to some degree in Turkey alone)
But anyway I digress : so apart from the Samanids , *the Saffarids, the seljuks, the Mughals & even the ottomans were also greatly crucial in the revival & the come back of the Persian civilization & culture before the Safavids rose to power even* (Eventhough the Saffarids were the only Iranian ones , the rest were either turkic or mongolid & yet they all created very powerful empires & almost 90% of the times adopted the Persian culture & language & even spread it to regions that the Persians themselves had not reached even during their superpower full empires pre-islam)
*Also if not for the Afsharid empire Iran wouldn't have been like this today at all !!! The Safavids were very powerful & influential I agree but they also fell nonetheless & their empire could have been very easily divided between the ottomans, the Russians & the Mughals had it not been for the Afsharid empire to crazily conquer everything back* ......
So I really think you sound consider adding the Afsharids , the Saffarids into your list & also give the Abbasids more cultural points or at least lower the cultural points of the ottomans.....
1/3 (5) of these are Turkic. Seljuk's are Turks, Mamlukes were Turkic, the Safavids were Turkic although there is a weird push to claim they are Kurdish for the past few years, even tough Shah Ismail's grandfather was from Ardabil, an Azerbaijani dominated town where he gathered a large Turkic following and was later exiled to Anatolia (diyarbakir), grand mother is Uzun Hasan's sister (Turkoman princes), and his mother is Uzun Hasan's daughter (another Turkoman princess), his wife is a Turkoman princess from a different tribe and their court language was Turkic, they wrote Turkic poems etc and spoke not a word of Kurdish. The Mughals were Turkic (the whole Mongol thing that they took from the Timurids, was purely because Timur liked to claim ancestry from Genghis, Central Asian leaders would claim ancestry from some legendary khan for legitimacy, for centuries they'd claim ancestry from the Ashina, only after Genghis did this change for obvious reasons) The Safavids became very Persianized and the Mughals were also very influenced by Persian culture. And lastly of course the Ottomans, who were one of the Turkic Beyliks (Lordships) under the Seljuks who after that empire crumbled started their own thing and united all the other Turkic Beyliks of Anatolia
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Delhi was a surprise for sure. They were underrated though so I can kinda see that.
The Almohads of Morocco ruled over Modern day Libya as well at their peak and they had a huge cultural Impact on North Africa and Spain. Almoravids should have been on the list as well since they ruled over most of north west Africa from the Senegal river up to Spain. Their leader Yusuf Ben Tachfin delayed the fall of muslim Spain for 400 years and it's thanks for their 'Ribats' or circles of islamic teachers that west Africa was converted to islam.
Mali Empire was already Muslim so I don't think they converted West Africa to Islam. Also, it was Granada which was ruled by an Arab dynasty (not Berber) which delayed the fall of the last Muslim stronghold in Spain.
@@мувн-ш4ы it was Almoravids that first spread Islam there, Mali empire was founded 200 years later.
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Ottoman Empire is still alive actually, just changed it's form of government to Republic in 1923 :) Greetings from Turkey
no way.
ottoman empire had a place for everyone of every ethnic or religion.
Turk republic is a genocidal state for muslim turks only and some jews.