Samuel HaNagid - A Prince of Jews - Extra History
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- 📜 Samuel HaNagid the Prince of Jews - Extra History
Born in the waning days of the grand Umayyad caliphate of medieval Spain, Samuel HaNagid grew up in the multicultural art scene of Cordoba. He wrote poetry in the Bedouin tradition, a break from the tradition of purely religious Hebrew poetry that had held sway in the Jewish community for centuries. His familiarity with arts and letters served him well when unrest forced him to flee to a new kingdom in Granada, where a Muslim vizier recognized his high level of education and appointed him a tax collector. When the vizier died, Samuel took over his responsibilities but the king refused to give him the title, even though he had earned the title of "nagid" (leader or prince) from the Jewish community in Babylonia. He allied himself with a young prince named Badis, and when the time came for succession, he helped Badis get the throne in exchange for which he was finally appointed vizier in full. In the turbulent world of ta'ifa Iberia, Samuel found himself spending most of his time-fighting wars to protect the kingdom. He passed away after decades of service, and his young son Joseph attempted to fill the role in his stead. Though Joseph managed to navigate the increasingly volatile waters of Granadan politics for ten years, his rivals eventually succeeded in stirring an anti-Semitic riot against him. Joseph and the Jewish community in Granada were massacred, and the only lasting remnant of Samuel's life's work was the poetry his son had copied out and immortalized in his memory.
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[Ends on a very depressing note]
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We... might need more emotional range.
Try the Irish famine. The last in Europe outside wartime - which is something, I guess.
That would be a good idea XD
typical Extra Credits!...it reminds you that this is still youtube qafter all!
One on diasporas generally would be cool too, very informative for game plots methinks.
"No, not quite that way, but that's how it will be told" Every history book ever
Pretty much. History is generally written by the winners. While it's incredibly important to know history, it's also important to remember to take things you read with a grain of salt. While the large majority you may be reading about a country is likely true, I guarantee that certain things were embellished or glossed over to make that country look better or worse. (Of course, that all depends on what country wrote that book and the time period it was written in.) In short, you should study history, but always keep in mind that history is written from the viewpoint of whoever wrote it down. Intentionally or not, things may be embellished to make things look more black and white than they actually were.
shenDerp why are you everywhere NotLikeThis
+James Hughes very true
Writers of history do tend to embellish such things. ;)
+Bitter Cynic Sigh... it's always those damn peasants believing in free will and democracy. Hail the british aristocracy!
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His son killed and his legacy erased.
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Omg. Ikr
What do you hace against jews?
I think there just people that are critized by Many others like you
WHY DO YOU HATE THEM?
When Samuel was a young man he would have witnessed multiple times, a jew, a christian and muslim all walking into a bar at the same time
The Jew and ordered some wine, the Muslim chuckled and said "Silly Jew, why do you buy your drink yourself? All I do is raise a finger and my wives do it all for me.) Unwilling to bicker with the Muslim, he points the attention to the Christian, who had ordered 20 glasses of tap water. Confused they asked why. The Christian replied, before he could even reply, all the glasses had turned to wine.
A Muslim, a Jew, and a Christian had walked into the bar.
Three wasted Christians left the bar.
I tried to do the funny.
That's the first time i've heard that one XD That's freaking hilarious
Chips Dubbo Good Job
Chips Dubbo not a good job
Aron Johansson
Fight for power between muslim leaders and chritian kings killing every one not ready to be chritian
"Is that what really happened?" "No, not _quite_ that way. But that's how it'll be told!"
Ah, history.
Edit: that sounded kind of like a jab at EC's history telling skills, it was more of a nod to the "history books are written by the winners" thing but w/e.
The Lies episode of THIS one is going to be interesting.
No Lies for this one - it's a one-off! But the story told at the beginning there is one of the versions circulated about how Samuel HaNagid became vizier (and is, in fact, the one Wikipedia tells). Obviously, I felt the other version (written by a descendant of Badis) seemed more plausible, but this is one those times in history when different accounts tell conflicting stories, so you have to use your own discretion about which one you believe! -Soraya
Could there not be a combined lies for the one offs?
That sounds like something Robert Walpole would say...
"Anything but history, for history must be false."
I love when Extra History talk about unsung heroes. They deserve to be known. I think many of them, Mary Seacole, Samuel HaNagid, were left out because popular history was made between the end of the XIXth and the beginning of the XXth century and at the time, they didn't seem to be appropriate heroes. So instead we have heroes that turn out to be evil when you scratch the surface.
In France, we celebrate Jules Ferry because he proposed the idea of mandatory and free public school for everyone. In middle school we learnt how our society grew as a whole due to this idea. But then, in highschool, we learnt that public schools were just an anecdote in his life. He devoted his career to promote colonialism to the Republic and he convinced France to conquer Indochina. This decision brought wars and decline there for decades.
Similar with Luther in germany. He is praised for the reformation, but boy howdy was he an antisemite. but in these cases its needed so discern the good and the bad in a person, because on the other hand, he also promoted a larger education system(even going so far as to mock monasteries for their awful way of speaking and writing latin).
You just had to use roman numerals huh?
We learned a lot about Elizabeth I at school in the UK. Not the Ireland bit, though.
Samuel HaNagid rose higher than anyone thought possible for a Jew in Muslim Spain. But at what cost?
These one-shots are great, I'd never heard of Samuel HaNagid before this. Would you consider doing (a slightly more cheerful) one shot on Jack Churchill, aka "Mad Jack" a British officer in WW2 who went into battle with longbow, claymore and bagpipes? It's also claimed he carried out the last longbow killing in action in June 1940. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill
Finally an extra history about my people!!
I like that many of the swords in this video were straight. Musliems didn't use curved blades like the shamshir until the 15th century.
MisterTipp I'm converting
is there gonna be more of the history of writing
I am a high school student from Israel. This week I had my final literature exam, and I had a question abut Samuel hngids Poem. It is really cool to undusted the person behind the Poem. It helps to give the Poems context
This is legitimately heartwarming to watch. The fact that we have figures like this in our history is a truly great thing. I wonder if he ever had the chance to meet my family? We were serving as the financiers of Aragon and Castille, and also bore the title of prince. I bet they would have had lots to talk about.
Lol
General rule of thumb for history- from 2000 BC to the end of World War II, the Jewish people never, ever catch a break.
Even now, you'd be hard-pressed to say people get along cordially with them. However, the compass of prejudice is reorienting towards Muslims.
+Fenikkusu Kanji yup
DBZHGWgamer Well, it's mostly the wave of refugees and migrants from Syria and Iraq streaming into Europe and being used as a scapegoat.
DBZHGWgamer mate people were anti Muslim way before Obama 😐
One tragic part about history is that you can, at least to many people, justify massacres by claiming it was some act of self defence against a subliminal war of culture. This is true up to today.
The subjects you guys cover are so diverse! The artwork improves after every video and the story telling more and more intimate! Great job you guys! As an amateur history buff I appreciate this!
"Oh I know
שמואל הנגיד
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Israeli citizen thanking you for bringing this show closer to home :)
תודה.
מסכימה😁
מסכים - I agree
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"The Jews were massacred." Now Where Have I Heard That Before?
Rome.
The Starbound Show
So they started massacring people from 1948 like sepra and shatila massacre remember
Hmmmmmm now let me think....
Germans, Christians, Romans, legit everyone hates the Jews
Jealousy and shame.... leading to more of the same....
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Yet more of my own nation history I did not learn in school. An honest thank you from me to you for letting me know of this piece of me heritage.
I really enjoyed seeing t
your video, I am a Jew, I speak Hebrew and know the Torah and I didn'y
t know who it was Samuel HaNagid, thank you for taught me.
I think an episode exploring the origins of Antisemitism is in order.
I've got some theories about where it might've started.
As somebody how has a history exam abut ti you are in for a long sires of episodes
dragon Keren Is it not worth studying though?
It's been one of the most central themes of, if not world, then at least Western history.
That's gonna take quite a deal of study and archaeology if it means tackling that subject matter. I mean, even now we have no real common factor as to why the Jews are hated other than that they were hated for some reason be it due to the stereotype of money-grubber, Christ-killer, or a Hebrew slave having no place in civil society. :/
kuku keke There might be more to it than that.
Like many tribes of their era, the Hebrews were rather xenophobic and genocidal towards others, with a common practice being to kill, enslave, or drive off all inhabitants of a conquered city.
While the early Hebrews worshiped a handful of gods, they held their principle one in significant reverence, eventually worshiping only him.
After getting the royal beatdown from the Babylonians, the majority of the tribe was scattered.
Holding steadfast to their beliefs, and rather defiantly so in a mostly polytheistic world, they became pariahs everywhere they went.
This, possibly combined with memories and rumors spread by survivors of their glory day campaigns, left them with a damaged reputation.
When Jesus was arrested, the local rabbis, seeing him as a threat to their authority to poison the public against him, eventually leading to his crucifixion.
When Christianity became the primary religion of Europe, Jews found themselves with yet another stigma attached to them.
These, plus what you already mentioned, are the reasons I can think of that Antisemitism has been so prevalent for so long.
As far as "Zionist conspiracy" goes, my theory is that there have indeed always been handful of Jews who never forgot the glory days, and may indeed be obsessed with restoring the old tribe of David.
I doubt they've ever really been all that successful, and most of the community just goes about their daily lives, but I think even the idea of such a thing may've grown bigger than the truth, and paranoia made it go from 'a few Jews want to restore their honor and glory' to 'all Jews manipulate world events to their own ends.
Honestly, I don't know what it actually is. It's more than likely someone (Jewish or otherwise) started a rumor to that end, and as rumors do, it grew out of control.
as an orthodox Jew who watches your videos regularly, i'm happy to see this video made. Although not a hundred percent historically accurate. it's nice to see one of our own represented.
Extra History has become my favourite thing on this channel, I generally favoured mythology over fact in my history, but these have just hooked me and I eagerly await the next episode and topic. Keep up the good work.
Pretty fly for a rabbi
They say he's got a lot of chutzpah, he's really quite hip
The parents pay the moyl and he gets to keep the tip
That hurt. That physically hurt me.
Next time on Extra History: The Amish Paradise and how their friends think they really look good in black....FOOL
nice lmao > : ]
Hey hey do that Hebrew thing!
As a person, this video made me sad.
But as a CKII player, my first thought when the video ended was "A short game, but what a ride!".
Has Extra Credits ever considered making a separate Extra History channel?
Thank you for all the fabulous videos. I love both Extra Credits and Extra History. Extra Credits makes me appreciate all the hard work that goes into games and I learn so much from the Extra History shows.
"Nagid" doesn't really mean "prince", it means more of an appointed ruler, I'd say.
And just to clarify, since you didn't mention it, the "Ha" in the beginning of the "HaNagid" means "the". "The appointed ruler", basically.
More like "The Governor".
Thanks for telling this part of History. Spain's schools rarely give Al-Andalus more than a chapter in the book, and normally even that is about what happened in the rest of Spain, the "Reconquista".
UA-cam tells me this video is unlisted. Why?
Thanks for a wonderful (albeit sad) episode and keep up the good work!
you people deserve so many more views and subs... it's amassing how this channel hasn't blown up yet.
Oh wow. So cool a life and so sad an aftermath. I'm going to look up some of Samuel's poetry. He at least deserves that if nothing else.
Does Judaism have an equivalent of saints or members of the faith they particularly honor?
No not really. What we do have are famous rabbis whose opinions we follow as law.
Moses Lemann I see. Thank you for the information.
Depends on the movement, and god knows we had more than our fair share of pseudo machiachs. So in a way we do, but their role is not the same as say christian saits, martyrs and patrons.
Some Hasidic Rabbis have tales of supernatural powers (mostly in folk lore) but there are definitely some rabbinical tombs, particularly in Eastern Europe, that have become pilgrimage sights. Besides that, in theological circles that kind of personal veneration is carefully avoided.
Vanalovan Why is that?
Thank you for finally doing a story during the Reconquista!
just 1 point :Muslims didn't use the cescent as emplem of them before the rise of the ottoman empire
thanks for this awesome story
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another great one! glad you take a tolerant look on religion, cant wait for next weeks one [and summer this Friday!]
After watching this and many other history series, I still do not understand why were Jews persecuted across Europe and Asia throughout recorded history? What is the root of all the anti-Semitism? Is it religious rivalry between the Abrahamic religions or jealousy at the perceived economic well-being of a community? How has Judaism survived through all this?
well we can start from the belief that jews killed jesus and go up from there. As a minority they never had a right to own land and because of kosher laws and other restrictions they lived in tight urban communities which distinguished them. There were different laws and restrictions for jews, for example no land, so they tended to be merchants like Samual was. Add to that that jewish communities where everywhere and you get a nice trading network that benefited the jews greatly. Jews also tended to be more educated, as they had to read the Torah and other religious texts, which also helped them stay afloat economically. And with a communal support for the poor and needy you got a pretty wealthy group of individuals. free individuals. somewhat of a fit at the olden days of feudalism. Which also could backfire as they had no Lord but the king to protect them. So what i am trying to get to is, "they are jelly".
BTW i've also heard a theory that because jews wash their hands before eating they avoided the black death thus subsequently blamed for it
It's always hard hearing about a golden age you deduce had to fall for us to get where we are, but when it's a fall you know about, it's even harder.
Thanks again for another informative piece, but I have to admit this one hurt to watch. Having fled persecution in my own lifetime, it's depressing to see how easily old bigotries can undo decades of advances and attempts at progress.
I know that I might be unearthing something I probably shouldn't, but what persecution?
Liked how you opened this episode more like a story being told! Didn't like how you kinda just launched right into it. I got a little confused and didn't realise it was a man telling a story to a child at first.
Also "The vizier is a little hungover this morning" was a lot funnier to me than I'd expected. xD
I beg you please do Otto Von Bismarck and Germany.
This
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I beg you too
Greetings from Tunisia, like a lot your Extra History. Interesting episode, never heard of the guy We didn't learn about him in history or poetry class in school, you motivate me to do more reasearch about him.
Thank you yet again for introducing me to a little-known-yet-interesting historic character.
Wow thank you for posting this. I wouldn’t ever dream for this to be put online outside Jewish channels.
What an engaging and tragic tale. I can just see him in my mind. It's cool to have an idea of the person behind the story.
I am a huge history nerd but I never even had heard of this. Pretty much all my knowledge of the medieval world is extremly Christian-Eurozentric. Thank you, Extra Credits, for making Extra History and shedding light on some parts of our past that we simply didn't have time for back in school.
Spain's history has to be one of the most colorful in all of Europe!
LIV MAS!!!
Did I spell that right?
+JNZ13 PLVS VLTRA, perhaps?
The interconnecting theme of all these stories is that ambition doesn't payoff in the end.
I don't know if that's completely true. I think that their theme might be that ambition will require sacrifice. Justinian did have a payoff, as did Walpole and Admiral Yi (sort of).
Not true at all
Samuel: *standing in the corner* did he just call me a jew...?
Please do a series of Jose de San Martin. Read a little about him and you'll know why i tell you so, this guy was awesome. He crossed the andes and dreamed in his heart of a united america, he didn't care about glory or luxury, and rejected all rewards as a donation for his soldiers and for the civilians. He also wrote some interesting stuff as well, and has plenty of awesome phrases you could fit into the video.
and now to a more lighthearted comment about why Samuel Hanagid was not a prince of Jews!
first of all, a king, much less a prince was rare throughout Jewish history. not because of enlightenment, but because they rarely had a country of their own.
secondly let's talk about his name/title: Shmuel (in English Samuel) Bar Yoseph (Joseph in English. was his father, unlike his son JEhoseph) Halevi Hangid. notice both Halevi and Hanagid? it's not a coincidence they both start with Ha, but rather a mistake. see, Ha before a noun is the Hebrew equivalent the the. so instead of Halevi, it's suppose to be "the Levi" or "the one of Levi heritage (Levi as the third son of Jacob. didn't have a tribe of his own, but had a clerical importance in the Jewish kingdom). and Hanagid should be the Nagid.
now what is Nagid, and how it became a prince? well, Nagid is considered to be the leader of the Jews when they don't have a country of their own. so technically a leader, but no royalty. now now another name of this title is "Parnas" in hebrew it means "the one who takes care of the livelyhood", or "the breadwinner" however it does look and sound like prince.
now the last connection is the root of Nagid. hebrew, and Semitic languages in general, uses roots. three to four letters with a basic meaning, which is inserted to different forms to build additional meaning (kinda like word families in English). now N.G.D basic meaning is "to say", which might be a connection to leader, the one with the "say". "to say" is also the basic meaning of the root A.M.R. now Amir in Arabic means prince (United Arabic Emirates = United Arabic Prince-ships" so in conclusion: Nagid->N.G.D->A.M.R->Amir->prince. convoluted? yes. unlikely? yes. expanding one's knowledge in Hebrew? definitely!
BTW, Nagid is still an existing title in Israel, but since we do have a country, Nagid is a financial title, similar to the royal Exchequer. you may know Stanley Fisher, who was Israel's Nagid Bank Israel, or the Israeli Exchequer!
so there! hoped you learned something from this! XD
Ungoogleable o_O across history they had three:
1) the ancient Israely kingdom which had split into two smaller kingdoms, Israel and Yehuda
2) the Hashmonian kingdom, the one established after the events of Hanuka
3) the current state of Israel. The one who was recognized by the UN at the end of 1947. You can question the morality of it's actions, but it is a recognized country nontheless.
Let's avoid further political debates, shall we? I just wanted to discuss/inform about Hebrew linguistics rising from the video...
+Ungoogleable o_O oh, sorry. I thought you meant that they didn't have a single country, also implying that Israel is not a country. it is a hot mess, so I kinda jumped the gun...
sorry pal :P
+Ungoogleable o_O oh, and according to the bible there was also David and Saul, but it is not an accurate historical record, so it is logical not to mention this...
Light hearted? You're a robot admit it. I caught you
Jews have Israel now. They even give citizenship to jews just because they are jews. Hardly a secularist country.
Really appreciate your history videos (as much as the videogame ones). Surprisingly I'm from Granada and never heard of that guy. As often said, history is told by the victorious ones, and here were christians who won at last. The interesting history of AlAndalus are almost not taught at school. Thanks!
Even as a muslim, I feel feel bad for the jews of that time... :T
Aaaand *braces self for anti-religious/anti-semitic hate comments*
You're human and have a heart. It sucks that you have to brace yourself just for saying that a massacre makes you sad. Ramadan Mubarak.
Christine Smith hey..this is youtube..jerks are everywhere..had to be ready :DD And thank you dude..~
+Angel Fox Bullshit, both the Catholic and Orthodox Churches actively protected jewish enclaves in Europe, whereas the jewry was at the mercy of petty sultans' whims in the Muslim world. Don't even try to whitewash the extreme degree of persecution and anti-semitism in muslim society.
+FED L. It is a known fact that Jews were treated terribly in Christendom. They were forced to live in ghettos and weren't allowed to build synagogues. In the Muslim world they were treated equally and were allowed to practice their religion freely.
Soviet Cat
I'm tired of people pointing to the condescening "tolerance" the muslims gave Christians and Jews, because they were "from the book".
"The book" relegated them to financial slavery, and legal shunning. The moment some of them got any power, they got struck down, says all you need to know about how "tolerant" muslims were and are.
Unlike Christendom, whoose officials actively worked to their protection, without forcing them to pay "the infidel tax" muslims had.
Also, ghettos? The Ashkenazi Jews were and to this day are very known for self-segregation, the ghetto argument is irrelevant as they were likely doing that by their own volition.
I'm getting kind of annoyed that some episodes and ppl are only getting 1 episode, this guy deserves more episodes and if you do a 1 er it kind of upsets me that you did some1 you couldn'tve get enough stuff for and he shouldn't of been done, Odenathus was fine because it wasn't his whole life.
I feel like I've accidentally enacted this in dwarf fortress
these series's are really good I mean really I love history I know basically all these stories but the way he puts it down is really interesting i watched it all in one night thanks
Please do Vlad the Impaler, his story is very interesting and could educate some people to differentiate between Dracula and the person himself
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Interestingly, as a Muslim poet in America, I feel like I relate to a lot of Samuel HaNagid's struggles as a Jew in Al Andalus. People's experiences seem to never change.
Muslims, Jews, and Christians getting along? Sounds like a fairy tale...
Sam Lucas agreed espechely nazis and jews agreeing... Imagin that
And Muslims were like European and the Jews were like Muslims, whaaaaaa?
Only in Indonesia
A fairy tale, or the future we work for.
🎉ואו איזה מתנה! תודה רבה על חומר הנפלא, אני עושה סידרה על היסטוריה של עם ישראל ברוסית, בינתיים על חסדאי אבן שפרות - דור אחד לפני רבינו שמואל.
Heh, ending a brutal massacre on the cheery violin queue? What is this, A Clockwork Orange?
Anyway, if you ever have open slots for more oneshots I'd love to see how you would tell the story of Louis Riel.
so Samuel HaNagid had laser vision. Good to know! this is the high Quality content that I do not question that I watch Extra Histroy for.
AAaaaaAAAaaaaAAAAaaaaaAAHHH!!! WHY DO YOU MAKE SUCH GOOD CONTENT?!?!?!?!?
We watched your video in one of our history lessons. [I'm from Germany] Also it helped me for the history class test. Thanks.
When this vid first went up there were tons of antisemitic comments. I'm glad someone got rid of most of them.
II'd love to see you guys narrate the Boxer rebellion, something about the Moghuls or the story of Giuseppe Garibaldi and the unification of the Italian Kingdom. And please please please consider to do the story of Ibn Battuta, if you haven't already. His adventures are just awesome.
i would love to see an episode about Harald Hårfagre the Norwegian viking who united Norway!
Like so Extra Credits can see this comment!
Do one in the life of Jose Rizal or other Filipino historical figures. Things could get pretty intense and you could get emotionaly invested if you read Rizal's biography and see his lasting legacy in the Philippines and the world.
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Thx for making vid love learning new stuff each day!
I am sympathetic to Jews throughout history. They have been stripped of everything, yet with their knowledge, always seem to rise again. It is a truly noble race.
...but it's a religion, not a race... literally anyone can become a jew. If I so desired, and had the dedication to spend years learning a new language and studying religious texts, **I** could become a part of them basically at will.
People's inclination to treat judaism as some sort of genetic thing really does confuse the fuck out of me sometimes
@@Darasilverdragonell, there are some people who are considered to have a 'race' in Judaism. Ashkenazi jews, for instance, have genetic markers linking them as such
Are you circumcised already Parth Datar?
@@Darasilverdragon Judaism, interestingly, often teeters the line of religion/ethnicity/race. For instance, most Jews in Israel (even since its founding) are secular atheists. While what you said is right, technically anyone can convert to Judaism, the general consensus is that you do not need to follow Jewish beliefs in order to be Jewish.
Judaism is, at its core, a people. You can go through a complicated process to join said people (and many do), but there is also a familial component to it.
Sometimes hard work and sacrifice doesnt last past ones life. Such a sad end. Maybe you guys should compose some solemn music for these kinds of endings?
Kinda takes out the severity of the situation when you end it in such a cheerful tune.
I know this is weird but I was wondering if you guys could touch on the Rashiddun Caliphate.I mean the problem it faced affected the whole world the Sunni-Shia split.The spread of Islam to Iberia.You know.Its something like the Early Christian Schism
Very interesting episode, maybe you should also give some time to the berber rebellion in north Africa, which was the first secession from the arab/middle-eastern rule. cheers, keep on posting!
DO ONE ON THE ROMAN CONQUEST OF THE GREEK STATES
if I could suggest something. How about a series on how countries gain their independence and what great warriors and politicians came out of those historical moments
Great video as always! But I'm gonna have to say I learnt it as cor-da-bar not core-do-ba. I am willing to be corrected if someone has evidence against that pronunciation.
(With a rolling r).
Apparently the Arabic pronunciation is like "Emirate of Córdoba (Arabic: إمارة قرطبة, Imārah Qurṭuba)" and so that implies that it didn't have an R originally.
Modern: Córdoba (/ˈkɔːrdəbə/, Spanish: [ˈkoɾðoβa]),[1] also called Cordova (/ˈkɔːrdəvə/)
i live in malaga right next to cordoba and you are right in the first part it is cor and not core but the end is ba not bar
British and Australian people always add an "r" at the end of a word that ends with "a" when speaking. I have no idea why.
They're called non-rhotic accents. Basically they add an "r" sound between a word that ends in a vowel and a word that begins with a vowel (ex. - I want to buy a slice of pizza-r-and some fries.)
You should do one on Maimonides. He was a really interesting and influential thinking.
Just for the lies episode
5:12 Jews never bow when they pray.
8:32 They crucified Joseph
5:41 Jews also can't create statues for themselves.
Not really intentional lies but yeah nice corrections.
I can't believe they crucified Joseph :O
Jews can have statues of themseleves as long as the face is blurred or the statue itself remains partially incomplete
5:12 Jews do in fact bow down during prayers, many times. Just not in that fashion, we never really kneel.
5:41 Also, Jews can make statues, but not with stone, wood or metal.
@@ThomasMCGaming Are they allowed to sculpt statues out of clay, or would that count as "stone" in this context?
You have made really good choice on topic, but when you will finish this one, please do Otto von Bismarck, evil or kind, that man is legend
Correct me if i'm wrong .. after the fall of the muslim kalifat in Spain, jews were exiled by the spanish king. And they went to Morocco. Strangely in Morocco there have never been an incident of jewish massacre (that i know of at least)
Jews left to all around from Iraq to Greece,from Holland to Italy,from Egypt to Morroco and literally everywhere they could,although most of them went to Portugal only to be massacred or forcibly converted to Christianity only couple years later :(btw from the 30s to the 50s there were weakly and frequent riots and mob attacks on Jews in Morroco but there were also many Arab who help the Jews but yes in general Morroco is by far one of the more comfortable places Jews lived in.
didnt they go the Constantinople ?
Most of them went to Thessaloniki, at that time part of the Ottoman empire.
+o_O but is there any relieble information that somethin'like that happened (apart from assumptions)
+Konstantinos Kotsomytis Are you really suggesting that theslonikki took 200,000-300,000 people what I can tell from Israel where 99% sfaradim live most actually from north Africa. 80,000-100,000 actually went to neighboring Portugal only to be erased few short years later the rest went to north Africa,holand,Italy and of course the ottoman empire(among them also main trade ports in greece and Turkey).
I'd like to explain something. The topic of pleasure in poetry amongst the Muslims can actually be very metophorical. "Love" that Muslim poets write, at that time might be the love for God instead of love for another, and drinking wine and getting drunk is to devote and submit oneself to God. So in a sense, they can be religious as well. However, this is a thin veil of symbolism we are talking about here, so the poets may also mean their literal meanings. Google "Divan Poetry" if you guys want to learn more about it. In addition, I think this kind of symbolism was influenced highly by the Persian interaction and can be attributed to Sufism.
So whats next on extra history?
Thumbs up this comment if you want it to be about Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil
Who?
Are you refering to the D pedro II of Brasil or Portugal?
He's one of the most celebrated rulers of Brazil; its last and greatest Emperor before it became a republic.
Vote for Emperor Dom Pedro
TheAlexgoodlife Yes, of Brazil.
Will ExtraHistory ever have its own channel like ExtraPlay? I understand not wanting to split your subscription base, but it seems like ExtraHistory is something that y'all will be doing (hopefully) for years to come.
can we mabey do one of those epic long history stories like the japanese war? I like those sooo much.
Japan fought a lot of wars.
***** the one extra credits did a series about.
I believe you mean the series on Admiral Yi, which is also my favourite so far
Rick Veenbergen
I meant there are a lot of wars that Japan was involved in. You should be more specific, so the Extra History team knows what you are speaking about. :)
They've only done two series with Japan involved so what fucking matter does it make that Japan has fought a lot of wars? I don't get what it is that you're trying to say.
It would be fantastic if you'd do an episode about the knights of Malta (specifically The Great Siege of 1565) or at least Malta in general :D
Huge amount of history involved ~
I actually did a search on the genealogy site Geni, and I found out that Samuel HaNagid is actually by Great (x34) Grandfather
For what it's worth I like these one offs or shorter miniseries focusing on specific individuals better than a main series focusing, principally, on a single person. While a person or small group of persons were at the heart of, say the Sengoku Jidai, at least for the purposes of establishing a easier to follow narrative, it feels more appropriate to have a series follow an event or period in which certain persons were particularly prominent, rather than it be about them, if the distinction makes sense?
Great story, great history. Total downer to start the day. TT_TT
Hey for my internship I'm currently working on an educational game about the broadstreet pump. Thanks for giving me the info to start.
Samuel reminds me of Suleiman. I think it's the 'S' on his head.
Both of the names come from the Hebrew word shmua'al.
Not quite. Samuel/Shmuel means "God has heard" (fitting!), while Suleiman/Solomon is closely associated with the respective Hebrew and Arabic words for "peace".
So far I have Paz, Kazuhira, and Solomon. Anyone know any other given names that mean "peace"?
+nessesaryschoolthing Frederick is an English form of a Germanic name meaning "peaceful ruler", derived from frid "peace" and ric "ruler, power"
Well Solomon in Hebrew is Shlomo, which has the root (hebrew etymology is complicated) SH-L-M, which is the same root as 'Shalom'- peace
I barely followed all that. Jumping from character to character that quickly left me confused once in a while. And the stage could have used more explanation in the beginning. But it's nice and short I guess.
That sad ending got me off guard though. What the hey hey?!
On the topic of Jews, I don't understand why people hate and have hated them so much.
They've always been a minority wherever they've been, and as such, they were very easy to use as scapegoats for the ills of the world.
Well in the Middle Ages it was cuz the Catholic Church blamed them for the death of Christ which is kinda dumb since in Christian theology mankind is responsible for his death on the cross and not just one group later they were hated for how good they were at making money
they were a convenient scapegoat, today other groups have been forced into that role
I think that was a result of his betrayer's name was pronounced JEW-das.
They didn't follow some random command from God or something like that.
Also they were around bigger cultures that wanted their land, and then no-one wanted a bunch of immigrants with weird costumes making a mess of balance in their country.
I feel like I've seen something similar lately...
Great video again EC !! How about a series on Marcus Aurelius now!!!!
Nearly seventy years later after the Umayyad family feud, the Iberian Muslims do it again and recruit another uncontrollable Berber army from Northern Africa. And guess which famous figure is around to fight them? That's right: El Cid Campeador. Hope you guys do a series on him in the future!
Wait, is this a series or a one-shot?
One-shot! Our friend Samuel (and his son Joseph)'s story ends here.
+Extra Credits Unfortunately.
+Extra Credits Please do Otto Von Bismarck and Germany.
YES! Bismarck please!
When next series?
This was a great video! I'd love to see more like it.
So... if Jews had never written love poetry, only religious stuff, then what is Song of Solomon?
Leaving aside the fact that the song of Solomon (שִׁיר הַשִׁירִים) is part of the Tanak (The Hebrew bible) and therefore counts as a religious text, the canonical interpretation within Judaism is that the song is not the describing love of a man for a woman, but the love of God for Israel. I'm not saying that this is the interpretation contemporary Jews have, but that is an interpretation many Rabbis have taken in the past.
Its amazing how much history you guys bring up that I never knew about. Don't ever stop this series please; its amazing...
WELL THAT WAS DEPRESSING. JEEZ.
(Good stuff though, high quality content as usual)
That's quite a happy ending. Cue the up beat music!
Kayliff . . .
It's prounced Kah-leef.
Khaleefah, is the most accurate one
Kha-leefah*
Talking about Cordoba, I sugest a portrait of the ascension of one of my favourite histrical figures. The last Umayyad of Damascus, and first Umayyad Emir of Al-Andalus: Abd al-Rahman I, called The Inmigrant and Falcon of the Quraish.
Seems like a mensch
Autokorrektur?
+Thahaddaeuz Go to your liebensraum.
This got dark pretty quick...
thedude5able There's some rule of the internet that whenever Jews, Judaism, or Israel are mentioned, the Nazis will be also within 5 comments
+David Lev T = (Jn*R)^n where T is the time before Nazis show up, Jn is the Jewishness of the original posters name, R is the relevance of the video to Jews and n is the number of commenters on the video ;) got it to a science
Important to note, the people who ruled Granada were the Berber Zawids (the Umayyads hired *a lot* of Berber mercs because they didn't trust native Muslims) who were a major destabilizing influence in Al-Andalus
wait what? The arabs had written poetry about drinking and love? I thought alcohol was prohibited. Someone explain
Few person ever completely follows their religion, specially amongst nobility of old. In the same way that christian kings and princes had all sorts of premarital sex, fathering bastards all over the place, in the same way the temples of buddhist monks accrued enormous wealth through debt, is the same way muslims leaders and aristocrats would find themselves drunk at parties.
No ones perfect.
It's also prohibited for christians to drink alcohol (along with many other things), do that stop christians form drinking. How closely the abrahamitic religions follow their rules varies through history. Tight now Christanity is the most secular, while quote a chunk of muslims are on the conservative side. It was opposite in the middle ages.
Christians ARE allowed to drink alcohol. I do not know about all the fragments of the christian church, but in Catholic church there is no prohibition on alcohol.
NoHarmony It's true that the Catholic church allows alcohol. Just like a lot of muslims have been allowed to drink alcohol.
It says in the Bible that you are not allowed, and it says in the Quran that muslims are not allowed. It also says (in the Bible) that you are not allowed to eat pork, even though most christian churches wouldn't mind.
This is kinda my point. The practice of most religions are not uniform and is constantly evolving. Even though some muslims today abstain from alcohol, does not mean all do. Just like because some chirstians abstain from alcohol does not mean all do.
***** This is much of my point actually. There are sp many different versions of christianity that one can't really say anything that is true for all.
It is similar for all the big religiouns, including Islam. Especially if we take a look at what was true for the religion at all points in history. The only thing that has been true for Islam through history is that the Quran is in arabic. The interpretation of it has changed (including the alcohol thing).