Your work makes history quite interesting. You have a talent for personalizing historical figures, such that they are not simply (sometimes unpronounceable) names. Your description of battles and events makes it easier for me to see them in my mind's eye, like a movie.
Thanks for this comment - making history into a narrative and showing the humanistic side of big people from the past makes it a much more tangible experience.
Los árabes eran gente culta y refinada, no como los germanos o anglosajones y escandinavos o rusos eslavos. Se unió el mundo hispanoromano con el árabe en Hispania.
What fantastic series! I'm sure i'll listen to them more than once. Commenting annd Liking for the algorithm. Hope you'll keep producing the good stuff.
Love these videos. I love history, especially old world history, but I dont think I knew there was a Muslim Spain until a few years ago. I cant wait until we get to the Spanish Empire in the Americas.
Scott Whatever bruh your talking about modern Islam, the golden age of Islam ( I’m not religious at all ) was one of the greatest times of science and wisdom ever, modern math AL-ger-bra (algebra) Arabic-numerals, yeah thank them for math dude and 10000’s of other great inventions do yourself some favor and learn history before you speak dummy, Christians also did tons of bad shit throughout history get off your high horse
@Commentator you are saying non sense, Islam Turned Spain from stupid Lawless cruel Land into the most Sophisticated country on Earth, what sceince are you talking about all Science and Inventions that time were from the Islamic World, Rhe Numbers the Zero the Marhematics, Al Jabra, phyisics, medcine, 850 years of Civilization that time when most of European countries were so proud sending their sons to learn in the University of Cordoba, and they were so proud speaking Arabic Go sleep well mate u know absolute zero about History be descent man dont let your Hate blind u.
Good to hear from a fellow countryman!! I’m from Kolkata! I’m happy you liked the series and I’m still looking into what books would be excellent for Mesopotamia for you.
You would be an excelent teacher if you re not already ! I ll try to show all the series to my first born son in order to sharpen his english and learn some Real History .
Thank you for sending me this! I'm happy I'm helping your son learn English. My son just turned one and when he hears my videos, he just stares at the screen and wonders why his dad's voice is coming out.
"Eat your heart out Leonardo"...really? How many fools in the course of history had strapped wings on and jumped off of something...are you so ignorant? The myth of Icharus even? Leonardo realized that bird wings were shaped a certain way...get it? The foil....All cultures have individual geniuses....but a Renaissance only occurs when the population is capable of understanding and embeacing their geniuses...hence Italy had a Renaissance...Islam did not.
Scott Whatever 😂😂😂😂 your angry that the Muslims have robbed Europeans for there culture . You don't have a culture anymore because of the Muslims lol is that why you hate them so much ?
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Good video, I just have 1 comment regarding the information in the video. You said that the "muwaladoun are Christian or Jewish converts". From what I know and read the Muwaladoun are actually the descendents of the first Muslim settlers that married Christian wife's from Al-andulus. There children were called "Muwaladoun". Other than that your videos are excellent.
I’ve heard it used both ways - I believe the original Arabic meaning is derived from the term ‘descendant’ which is consistent with what you have said. But I’ve also have read that in the remote region of al Andalus - which was esssentially on the fringes of the Islamic world - the Spanish influenced meaning incorporated those who had converted.
I thank you for the feedback - creating this podcast has always been an endevour in learning a field of history that I was not familiar with until now. I hope you continue to join me in this series.
Glad you like the series - that poor man was not remembers kindly by history. I reviewed him in several difference sources. Even Hugh Kennedy - the professor - who is a good reference has him in the chapter ‘Slide into anarchy.’ Don’t be depressed - Abd al Rahman III is next!
Scott Whatever Islam and Muslims are two different things. I just can’t seem to understand why westerners fail to differentiate between. Is it deliberately that westerners don’t want to learn. Anyway us muslims did many stupid things and we continue to do them even now .
Fun fact if you put the i in merida between m and e you got yourself the s word in spanish and if you just take the i its in portuguese. Curious if this was where it descended from cuz it was certainly a shitty situation for the muslims
Umayyads have strong arab nationalism even sometimes their caliph impose discriminatory rules on non Arab Muslim like the last or second last of them. It's very good My Country never invaded by Arab Army but being converted by good influental figures from Arab Descent
@Scott Whatever Curb your hatred, during these ages muslims were far more. civilised than europeans. Muslims were writing books about medicine, founding chemistry and algebra while europeans were still using farts in jars.
so, for part four he seems to have collapsed into fluff and nonsense, and i'm not going to bother - but i'm going to give him one more chance before i move on to something more scholarly.
but, i was thinking a little about what this flashpoint guy (i don't see his name anywhere, although he seems to live in san francisco) is doing, and it's tying back into the said. in truth, this is the perfect example of orientalism. i previously accused him of not being an expert, but he seems to have some historical training; what i meant is that he's not an expert in that time frame. rather, his expertise appears to be connected more to american and european military history, and specifically in the post-enlightenment period. so, he's approaching this as an amateur, but he seems like he _should_ know what he's doing. that comes out in how he approaches islamic vs western history, the latter in it's fullest generality. when he talks about western history, he has a critical mindset and a skeptical approach - as he was no doubt trained to have. but, when he approaches islamic history, he takes it nearly on face value, with only the slightest bit of critical thought. i mean, he mentions a few times that it sounds hard to believe, but then he just goes with it anyways... so, i'm not accusing him of naivete. he _doesn't_ seem to _believe_ anything he's narrating. rather, he's approaching this with kid gloves, and it's not helpful. instead, it's exposing a level of benevolent racism, in it's application of different standards of analysis. in the west, we can have critical thinking and skepticism and scientific methods, but those backwards arabs can just hold to their mythology and shouldn't be challenged on it. so, it's a hierarchy of analysis that places islam at the bottom of the academy, in terms of methodology, and it's based on othering the orient as different and exotic - and therefore not subject to western critiques. it's for that reason that i'm trying to point out over and over again that the muslims really have never been this exotic thing. yes, they came from the outskirs of western culture, but so did the germans and the russians. their religion is not this weird foreign thing at all; they adopted a greco-semitic syncretism that was so similar to contemporary christianity that it was readily adopted by romans across wide swaths of territory, at least at first. he uncritically recounts a story where the caliph threatens heraclius with the fate of arians without realizing that the early christian sources essentially saw islam as a heretical form of christianity, and that accusations of arianism were actually fairly widespread - and reasonably grounded. that story is probably projection. so, it took some time for divisions to develop, and a bird's eye survey of the history in a broad sense should really fold islam into the history of the west, not as this distant other from the east. islam is not the east; hinduism and offshoots of it are the actual, real east. and, if islam is a part of western culture then western methods should be used to deconstruct their histories as the myths and legends that they are. as mentioned previously, it doesn't help that islamic histories consistently try to argue that the dark age didn't apply to them, that they existed outside of it in some kind of special status. it's obvious why they do this - this is where their civilization started, and writing it off as a dark age mythology means writing off the religion, itself. but, i mean, who cares? if it's wrong, it's wrong; if it's myth, it's myth. what do i care if it destroys their religion or not? i don't. what it masks is that their own histories are in many cases a better example of dark age ignorance than anything that happened in western europe. and, the kid gloves just reinforce the nonsense. so, he may think he's doing them a favour, but he isn't - these different standards of analysis are racist, and we should be applying the same methods to all aspects of the dark ages, not giving the islamic side of it some kind of pass because they're different. if i was hoping for a secular history grounded in skepticism, this isn't it. but, it's not his point of focus, and we'll have to see if he gets better or not.
Your work makes history quite interesting. You have a talent for personalizing historical figures, such that they are not simply (sometimes unpronounceable) names. Your description of battles and events makes it easier for me to see them in my mind's eye, like a movie.
Thanks for this comment - making history into a narrative and showing the humanistic side of big people from the past makes it a much more tangible experience.
The art, architecture, clothing, painting, sketching, drawing, skulpturing, buildings, And weapons they brought were pretty awesome
Los árabes eran gente culta y refinada, no como los germanos o anglosajones y escandinavos o rusos eslavos.
Se unió el mundo hispanoromano con el árabe en Hispania.
The detail, the story telling, the cadence...just superb.
Thank you!
I studied history in Al azhar university in Egypt
And I know all of this I wish one day to write a book talking about histories
Thank you! I really appreciate that. I used to live in Cairo when I was very young. I am very happy you liked my content!
Flash Point History
You’re welcome
When You Do, R.M., Don't Forget About These Folk!! Give 'em A 'Plug'!(Mention Them, As Study-Worthy!)
Verygood... 🌹🌹
@@raddiyahmohamoha8429 So the Arabs did to Egypt what the Ashkenaz is doing to Palestine?
Thank you for enriching my knowledge every day. Keep it up!
What fantastic series! I'm sure i'll listen to them more than once. Commenting annd Liking for the algorithm. Hope you'll keep producing the good stuff.
Thank you Malik!
That's decent! The music fit well better than the previous one.
Good luck!
Good to know - how was the volume of the music?
Love these videos. I love history, especially old world history, but I dont think I knew there was a Muslim Spain until a few years ago. I cant wait until we get to the Spanish Empire in the Americas.
really happy to hear this! Almost done with Alphonso X and then will move on to the Spanish Monarchy - just around the corner!
im inviting you brother to read about the islamic golden age and the science era
Scott Whatever bruh your talking about
modern Islam, the golden age of Islam ( I’m not religious at all ) was one of the greatest times of science and wisdom ever, modern math AL-ger-bra (algebra) Arabic-numerals, yeah thank them for math dude and 10000’s of other great inventions do yourself some favor and learn history before you speak dummy, Christians also did tons of bad shit throughout history get off your high horse
@Scott Whatever the west only barbaric,dark age and yes,was a slave to other nation hahaha
@Commentator you are saying non sense,
Islam Turned Spain from stupid Lawless cruel Land into the most Sophisticated country on Earth, what sceince are you talking about all Science and Inventions that time were from the Islamic World,
Rhe Numbers the Zero the Marhematics, Al Jabra, phyisics, medcine,
850 years of Civilization that time when most of European countries were so proud sending their sons to learn in the University of Cordoba, and they were so proud speaking Arabic
Go sleep well mate u know absolute zero about History be descent man dont let your Hate blind u.
Great series! You could add a link to the next episode. :)
Thank you for reminding me to do this! I've gone through and added links to every episode! All the best.
Respect for the speakers of this video and thanx a lot can you make new video about abdulrahman the first
Wow Sir love from India
Good to hear from a fellow countryman!! I’m from Kolkata! I’m happy you liked the series and I’m still looking into what books would be excellent for Mesopotamia for you.
Flash Point History oh kolkata many wishes may God bless u .. u have a great accent
@@FlashPointHx are you serious???i thought you must be an american....lol...
Btw I am also from India...
Nice! Yeah my Mother is from Delhi and my Father is from Kolkata @@mohammadsabah8619
Big history CIVILISATION OF AL ANDALUS ( IBERIA ) ☝️
Wonderful Stuff!!(NO-Doubt!!)
Hey thank you!
You would be an excelent teacher if you re not already !
I ll try to show all the series to my first born son in order to sharpen his english and learn some Real History .
Thank you for sending me this! I'm happy I'm helping your son learn English. My son just turned one and when he hears my videos, he just stares at the screen and wonders why his dad's voice is coming out.
@@FlashPointHx ha ha i know i know !
Best wishes for him and for the loved ones .
AMEN!!
Great quote at the end, fits perfect. Thank you for your work.
Thank you too! seems like you’ve been watching a lot of my videos - awesome
@@FlashPointHx, if I found good stuff I stick to it.
Very interesting history about yhe world we live in
With be amazing also if u watched the series on UA-cam called omar series with English subtitles it also contains the battle of yarmouk
I've searched all over but am unable to find it. Help with a link to umar(ra)
What happened to the Spanish slaves under Muslim rule?
It reminds me what happened with the Empire of Trebizond.
"Eat your heart out Leonardo"...really? How many fools in the course of history had strapped wings on and jumped off of something...are you so ignorant? The myth of Icharus even?
Leonardo realized that bird wings were shaped a certain way...get it? The foil....All cultures have individual geniuses....but a Renaissance only occurs when the population is capable of understanding and embeacing their geniuses...hence Italy had a Renaissance...Islam did not.
nice work
what was the music of Al Andalus like at that time I wonder.
You can look some of that up on UA-cam
I love Islamic history
Scott Whatever 😂😂😂😂 your angry that the Muslims have robbed Europeans for there culture . You don't have a culture anymore because of the Muslims lol is that why you hate them so much ?
@@unknownfrvr6767 wat
@@unknownfrvr6767 what Europe don't have a culture. Get your knowledge better.
10:07
Sir, i wanna see your fight, post next one faster plz
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Flash Point History omg, the podcast’s out? Onwards men, to the website, thanks again 😂👍🏼👍🏼
Sure is - let me know what you think
Flash Point History I ve listened to it and it was great as always nithin, thank you again
As always you are welcome!
👑RÍOS FAMILY 👑 it refers to the ROYAL HOUSE OF ASTURIAS where the RÍOS👑 last name most likely originated from.👑.
Good video, I just have 1 comment regarding the information in the video. You said that the "muwaladoun are Christian or Jewish converts". From what I know and read the Muwaladoun are actually the descendents of the first Muslim settlers that married Christian wife's from Al-andulus. There children were called "Muwaladoun". Other than that your videos are excellent.
I’ve heard it used both ways - I believe the original Arabic meaning is derived from the term ‘descendant’ which is consistent with what you have said. But I’ve also have read that in the remote region of al Andalus - which was esssentially on the fringes of the Islamic world - the Spanish influenced meaning incorporated those who had converted.
Flash Point History you might be correct, here is wiki page that explains it. But I do see your point also mentioned. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muladi
I thank you for the feedback - creating this podcast has always been an endevour in learning a field of history that I was not familiar with until now. I hope you continue to join me in this series.
Great video, music was loud
Make sure to include the Philippines in the future, please
this is great stuff
Thank you!
another nice one buddy keep it up. my name is abdullah u talked about my namesake today lol. feel depressed now.
Glad you like the series - that poor man was not remembers kindly by history. I reviewed him in several difference sources. Even Hugh Kennedy - the professor - who is a good reference has him in the chapter ‘Slide into anarchy.’ Don’t be depressed - Abd al Rahman III is next!
i think muslim rule in spain lasted 700 years manly because every centry few strong men kept the ship steady until there we no more strong men
But every time there was a weak leader, al Andalus would get a little smaller
Scott Whatever Islam and Muslims are two different things. I just can’t seem to understand why westerners fail to differentiate between. Is it deliberately that westerners don’t want to learn. Anyway us muslims did many stupid things and we continue to do them even now .
@Scott Whatever apostate prophet?🤣🤣 what book u reading tommy robinson's??
Hardly religious freedom when you are killed for sharing your faith.
Jaen is pronounced hi en as in end.
The bridge of Cordoba is Roman, not moorish
When you got to Abd al-Rahman III I knew you were going to use that quote lol.
Fun fact if you put the i in merida between m and e you got yourself the s word in spanish and if you just take the i its in portuguese. Curious if this was where it descended from cuz it was certainly a shitty situation for the muslims
Your so good maybe the best who explained al Andalus in English but why u don't have followers??? That's weird
Thank you! I am glad you like the series. The subscribers will come :)
Because, We're Being 'Dumbed-Down' Over Here(As Also In England), And History Calls For A Attention-Span, Of More Than 30-90Seconds, Sadly!
@@FlashPointHx You've converted me, everything about your work is impeccable.
@@dennismayfield8846 Preach!
These were the golden ages of Islam. Europe was dark and then they learned with the Arabs
They were conquered by Muslims
They learned stuff as dhminni under Muslim rule
Umayyads have strong arab nationalism even sometimes their caliph impose discriminatory rules on non Arab Muslim like the last or second last of them. It's very good My Country never invaded by Arab Army but being converted by good influental figures from Arab Descent
Ahi empezo el interés en quedarse en Andalucia de los nórdicos 😂🇪🇸
Can anyone tell me a Christian medieval kingdom that had a Muslim adviser to their king?
Bravo!!
@Scott Whatever Never heard of a king named "Stupidity", must have been very kind to have a muslim.
@Scott Whatever Curb your hatred, during these ages muslims were far more. civilised than europeans. Muslims were writing books about medicine, founding chemistry and algebra while europeans were still using farts in jars.
很有趣，游击战这个词就是源自于西班牙，伊比利亚半岛一直都是周边国家的冒险者和野心家的舞台，各个地区的文化语言信仰都不相同，如果没有强人管理是不可能镇住这些刺头的
Yes - Spain was the Wild West in antiquity, Hannibal's father died trying to subdue the natives.
wrg, no scuh thign as upx or undx or etc
so, for part four he seems to have collapsed into fluff and nonsense, and i'm not going to bother - but i'm going to give him one more chance before i move on to something more scholarly.
but, i was thinking a little about what this flashpoint guy (i don't see his name anywhere, although he seems to live in san francisco) is doing, and it's tying back into the said. in truth, this is the perfect example of orientalism.
i previously accused him of not being an expert, but he seems to have some historical training; what i meant is that he's not an expert in that time frame. rather, his expertise appears to be connected more to american and european military history, and specifically in the post-enlightenment period. so, he's approaching this as an amateur, but he seems like he _should_ know what he's doing.
that comes out in how he approaches islamic vs western history, the latter in it's fullest generality. when he talks about western history, he has a critical mindset and a skeptical approach - as he was no doubt trained to have. but, when he approaches islamic history, he takes it nearly on face value, with only the slightest bit of critical thought. i mean, he mentions a few times that it sounds hard to believe, but then he just goes with it anyways...
so, i'm not accusing him of naivete. he _doesn't_ seem to _believe_ anything he's narrating.
rather, he's approaching this with kid gloves, and it's not helpful. instead, it's exposing a level of benevolent racism, in it's application of different standards of analysis. in the west, we can have critical thinking and skepticism and scientific methods, but those backwards arabs can just hold to their mythology and shouldn't be challenged on it. so, it's a hierarchy of analysis that places islam at the bottom of the academy, in terms of methodology, and it's based on othering the orient as different and exotic - and therefore not subject to western critiques.
it's for that reason that i'm trying to point out over and over again that the muslims really have never been this exotic thing. yes, they came from the outskirs of western culture, but so did the germans and the russians. their religion is not this weird foreign thing at all; they adopted a greco-semitic syncretism that was so similar to contemporary christianity that it was readily adopted by romans across wide swaths of territory, at least at first. he uncritically recounts a story where the caliph threatens heraclius with the fate of arians without realizing that the early christian sources essentially saw islam as a heretical form of christianity, and that accusations of arianism were actually fairly widespread - and reasonably grounded. that story is probably projection. so, it took some time for divisions to develop, and a bird's eye survey of the history in a broad sense should really fold islam into the history of the west, not as this distant other from the east. islam is not the east; hinduism and offshoots of it are the actual, real east.
and, if islam is a part of western culture then western methods should be used to deconstruct their histories as the myths and legends that they are.
as mentioned previously, it doesn't help that islamic histories consistently try to argue that the dark age didn't apply to them, that they existed outside of it in some kind of special status. it's obvious why they do this - this is where their civilization started, and writing it off as a dark age mythology means writing off the religion, itself. but, i mean, who cares? if it's wrong, it's wrong; if it's myth, it's myth. what do i care if it destroys their religion or not? i don't. what it masks is that their own histories are in many cases a better example of dark age ignorance than anything that happened in western europe. and, the kid gloves just reinforce the nonsense.
so, he may think he's doing them a favour, but he isn't - these different standards of analysis are racist, and we should be applying the same methods to all aspects of the dark ages, not giving the islamic side of it some kind of pass because they're different.
if i was hoping for a secular history grounded in skepticism, this isn't it. but, it's not his point of focus, and we'll have to see if he gets better or not.
MUSLIM NAYSIONAL ANDOLUS 🇺🇿🇺🇿🇺🇿🇺🇿🇺🇿
🖕🤡💩☪️💩🧹🧹🧹
Leonardo was not stupid.
So Black and Arab guys ruled spain.
Yup - well most of it
@@FlashPointHx where Spanish and Portuguese people when the arabs take over Spain
@El Mauro I agree. But in America they use that term to define anyone melinated of Africanos orgin.
No blacks