Everyday Life & Society in the Abbasid Caliphate

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  • @AlMuqaddimahYT
    @AlMuqaddimahYT  ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Don't forget to check out Eastern Roman History's video: th-cam.com/video/MCnJxiy22Cc/w-d-xo.html
    If you can, please consider pledging a dollar or more to support the production of these videos: www.patreon.com/AlMuqaddimahYT

    • @jamesashley9127
      @jamesashley9127 ปีที่แล้ว

      Where is your home country?

    • @hamadbuhaleeba5606
      @hamadbuhaleeba5606 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nice video man

    • @hamadbuhaleeba5606
      @hamadbuhaleeba5606 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@jamesashley9127 Pakistan

    • @theculturedjinni
      @theculturedjinni ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Good video about the ordinary life in the heartlands of the Abbasid caliphate. Though I could nit-pick a lot and come with complaints about various missed things, I still think this was a very good overview video.

    • @magma9000
      @magma9000 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      GREAT VIDEO

  • @thestrangerofmountains
    @thestrangerofmountains ปีที่แล้ว +645

    Imagine playing chess in a tavern with your friend drinking tea next to the Tigris looking at the sun set and then hearing the call to prayer and going to the central mosque of Baghdad. Bro this is literally living in a fantasy world. It's like lord of the rings but islamic.

    • @mhmadbedrddeen3414
      @mhmadbedrddeen3414 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      if you weren't paying attention, the vid shows how unislamic was the Islamic caliphate top to bottom

    • @isamohammed150
      @isamohammed150 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      You could do the exact same thing currently in Baghdad 🤣🤣🤣

    • @thestrangerofmountains
      @thestrangerofmountains ปีที่แล้ว +88

      @@isamohammed150 you are right 😂. But I'd rather be living under the rule of Harun Al Rashid and not these corrupt Iraqi politicians of today

    • @mhmadbedrddeen3414
      @mhmadbedrddeen3414 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@thestrangerofmountains
      lol Harun was way more corrupt

    • @thestrangerofmountains
      @thestrangerofmountains ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @@mhmadbedrddeen3414 but then how come his Empire was so prosperous?

  • @UsefulCharts
    @UsefulCharts ปีที่แล้ว +100

    Best. Thumbnail. Ever. 🐈

  • @HistoryOfRevolutions
    @HistoryOfRevolutions ปีที่แล้ว +151

    The Abbasid Poet Abul Atahiya writes:
    "A Dry loaf of bread that
    you eat in a corner,
    A bowl of cold water
    that you drink from a pure source
    A narrow room
    in which your soul can be alone.
    Or a mosque in which you can be away from the people
    In it, you read
    the Qur’an leaning against a pole, considering the past nations
    This is better than hours in tall palaces, followed by a punishment of the hell fire"
    رغــيــف خــبـز يــابـس
    تــأكــلـه فــــي زاويــــة
    وكــــــوز مــــــاء بـــــارد
    تـشـربـه مـــن صـافـية
    وغـــــرفــــة ضـــيـــقـــة
    نـفـسـك فـيـها خـالـية
    أو مــســجـد بــمــعـزل
    عـن الـورى في ناحية
    تــقــرأ فــيــه مـصـحـفا
    مــســتـنـدا بــســاريـة
    مـعـتـبرا بــمـن مـضـى
    مـــن الـقـرون الـخـالية
    خــيـر مـــن الـسـاعات
    فـــي الـقـصور الـعـالية
    تــعــقــبـهـا عـــقـــوبــة
    تـصـلـى بــنـار حـامـيـة
    فــــهــــذه وصـــيـــتــي
    مـــخـــبــرة بــحــالــيــه
    طـوبى لـمن يـسمعها
    تــلـك لـعـمـري كـافـية
    فاسمع لنصح مشفق
    يــدعـى أبــا الـعـتاهية

  • @akira7436
    @akira7436 ปีที่แล้ว +137

    Just imagine a series / show that explored the sheer vastness of Abbasid-era life, following the stories of various people's non-Muslim and Muslim alike whose occupations ranged from scholars and poets to merchants and soldiers. It would be so interesting.

    • @MrHazz111
      @MrHazz111 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      There's an upcoming game, Assassin's Creed Mirage where the side quests are said to explore everyday life in the Abbasid caliphate.

    • @arkseven
      @arkseven ปีที่แล้ว

      ⁠@@MrHazz111 I’m so hyped for it

    • @joshc7656
      @joshc7656 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'd like to make one as soon as A.I gets there

    • @lastword8783
      @lastword8783 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      A show like HBO's Rome (without the gratuitous nudity).

    • @rajaeelastname4878
      @rajaeelastname4878 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lastword8783
      As if the Abbasides never had non marital sex or saw nude women who were not their wives!!
      A real sex maniac would prefer living in the Abbasides era to the Roman one

  • @micahistory
    @micahistory ปีที่แล้ว +61

    interesting. You see endless versions of this for Rome so it is nice seeing another major empire being covered in this way for once!

    • @AlMuqaddimahYT
      @AlMuqaddimahYT  ปีที่แล้ว +11

      True. Videos about Rome had spoiled me on how much information I expected. Daily Life in most of the Islamic World isn't as well studied as the Roman one and so, there's so much we don't know.

    • @micahistory
      @micahistory ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AlMuqaddimahYT exactly, thank you for this contribution

  • @chaosspork
    @chaosspork ปีที่แล้ว +70

    "My theory is that women didn't exist yet. They were invented in the 18th century."
    - Al Muqaddimah
    Amazing, hahaha.

    • @AlMuqaddimahYT
      @AlMuqaddimahYT  ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Is it a coincidence that they were invented just as Capitalism was starting to enter its golden age?

    • @BasedYeeter42
      @BasedYeeter42 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@AlMuqaddimahYT*Confused Marxist noises*

    • @harunobaid4977
      @harunobaid4977 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@AlMuqaddimahYTI almost thought that you were trying to disrespect Islam but I was mistaken
      Anyways just to let you know, we as Muslims are not allowed to celebrate the birth of the prophet SAW.

    • @arkseven
      @arkseven ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@harunobaid4977 debatable

    • @harunobaid4977
      @harunobaid4977 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@arkseven what's debatable? Celebrating the prophets birth? Thats prohibited.

  • @pompom0573
    @pompom0573 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    Love videos like this! While I will always find military history and the 'grander' aspects of history fascinating I think it is very important and interesting to see how the average, everyday person went about their day as well as how the society they lived in looked like.

    • @JohnnyLodge2
      @JohnnyLodge2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Jazby has some good videos lije this. One is from day in the life in constantinople.

    • @firmanimad
      @firmanimad ปีที่แล้ว

      Military history is only a small portion of life lived by our ancestors. It is fun but grossly overrated.

  • @StoicHistorian
    @StoicHistorian ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Can’t wait to watch, sometimes I find these social histories more fascinating than war

  • @EasternRomanHistory
    @EasternRomanHistory ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Really great to see the end result of all of our hard work. nice one man.

  • @MiddleEats
    @MiddleEats ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Man these videos are amazing. I love how you answer things I've wondered about for ages. It's fun to imagine what the life of an NPC was like. Keep it up!

  • @lerneanlion
    @lerneanlion ปีที่แล้ว +32

    When Emperor Theophilos was brought up, I was so excited because he accepted an envoy from the Umayyad Emir Abd al-Rahman II of Cordoba, al-Ghazal, into his court and sort of establishing what can be described as Andalusian-Eastern Roman alliance as a way of combating with the Carolingian-Abbasid alliance.
    Also, between losing freedom in exchange of getting rich, the women seemed to have to make a hard choice living back then in the Middle East.

    • @AlMuqaddimahYT
      @AlMuqaddimahYT  ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Oh, yeah, that story is really fascinating. It features the Byzantines, the Andalusians, Arab Pirates, and a Muslim Kingdom in Switzerland.

    • @lerneanlion
      @lerneanlion ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@AlMuqaddimahYT Yeah, I remembered that there was a short-lived Islamic power in Switzerland too. But they were kicked out because nobody likes being "taxed" when using the roads. And by being "taxed", I mean they robbed the travelers.

    • @1sultan189
      @1sultan189 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@lerneanlion Few decades isn’t short lived

    • @lerneanlion
      @lerneanlion ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@1sultan189 I know that.

    • @mrtrollnator123
      @mrtrollnator123 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ​@@AlMuqaddimahYTa Muslim kingdom in Switzerland? How did I not know that

  • @johnkerr67
    @johnkerr67 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    excellent video, your narration is really good. So many youtube series have high levels of historical analysis but poor levels of narration. you've absolutely crushed that

  • @Uzair_Of_Babylon465
    @Uzair_Of_Babylon465 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁👍

  • @MahmoodAlGhanimi
    @MahmoodAlGhanimi ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What an amazing video. I watched twice in a row and was entertained and educated every moment. Good job man.

  • @sapientisessevolo4364
    @sapientisessevolo4364 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Merchants: we need infrastructure to trade
    Camels aggressively: we are the infrastructure!

  • @blususpect
    @blususpect ปีที่แล้ว +9

    We always tend to look at our history with rose tinted glasses where it was all rainbows & sunshine, when this absolutely not the case. This was a great insight!

    • @cyberyousef7519
      @cyberyousef7519 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Actually the majority of this video is a bunch of information

  • @clarkherlin1198
    @clarkherlin1198 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I found your channel to prepare for Assassin’s Creed Mirage. Gotta learn all I can about one of my favorite empires before October 12th!

  • @kekovic101
    @kekovic101 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    As an Afghan me and my family still celebrate Nowruz and it is an important part of our and the heritage of the people of Iran and Tajikistan. Which doesn't mean we aren't proud Muslims belonging to the Ummah.

    • @kekovic101
      @kekovic101 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @harrykx I am Tajik. There are many Pashtuns who celebrate it.

    • @ramzan6949
      @ramzan6949 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Imam Ghazali an persian but he was Against celebrate nawroz. Nawroz is Zarathustraian religious festival not Muslim.

  • @muntril123
    @muntril123 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Great video as always! Although I was quite shocked to see my own art show up in one of your videos 😂 23:19 Got no problem with it, but I'd appreciate if you left credits for the piece. That being said, if you or Eastern Roman History are ever interested, I'd be happy to provide illustrations! :) At least ones with more visual clarity and research than that old piece 😅

    • @AlMuqaddimahYT
      @AlMuqaddimahYT  ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Ah! I'm so sorry. I try not to use any pieces that aren't in the public domain. I'll talk to Eastern Roman History. Can you please email me at syawish@almuqaddimahyt.com? I'd like to stay in touch for illustrations in the future.

  • @jordanmatt1744
    @jordanmatt1744 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Absolutely outstanding video love these more granular looks at history that focus on everyday life, it’s cool to learn about the empire level events but it gets a bit boring after a while. Thanks for all the work on this one ❤

  • @omerxoX
    @omerxoX ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I love you my friend, may Allah guide you, greetings from Turkey

  • @brunomurek4292
    @brunomurek4292 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I just found your channel by stumbling upon video about Muslim view on ancient Egypt, another great resarch and good source for non-Muslim ppl like me to learn more (my country skips most parts of middle-eastern history in schools).

  • @masahibbhatti4088
    @masahibbhatti4088 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love the videos keep it up

  • @mrtrollnator123
    @mrtrollnator123 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Mashallah bro, keep up the great work i would love to learn more about islamic history

    • @mrtrollnator123
      @mrtrollnator123 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @mas-udal-hassan9277 what do you mean

  • @fathallahelfatehy3279
    @fathallahelfatehy3279 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I congratulate you on the quality of your work. Greetings from Morocco and keep up the good work.

  • @papazataklaattiranimam
    @papazataklaattiranimam ปีที่แล้ว +5

    When the ‘Abbāsid Caliphs were under Buwayhid suzerainty their Mamlūk policy was not free from the pressure of that Daylamite dynasty. The success of the Daylamite soldiers in so many eastern armies is really astounding, but in the slightly longer run they stood no chance against the Turkish Mamlūks, and they disappeared. Even a Buwayhid ruler preferred Turks over them (see e.g.Bosworth, , “Ghaznevid military organisation”, p. 42

  • @zxera9702
    @zxera9702 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very informative video by the way ❤❤

  • @CCCP_Again
    @CCCP_Again ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Oh look who finally remembered that they had an amazing TH-cam Channel🎉

    • @AlMuqaddimahYT
      @AlMuqaddimahYT  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Duddeeee!!! I've been active for more than a month now.

  • @nicco-sixty
    @nicco-sixty ปีที่แล้ว

    Probably one of your best video yet

  • @lakibjornson281
    @lakibjornson281 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brilliant video! I was just wondering what is the name of the painting and painter you have used in the thumbnail?

  • @tylerdurden-ch8ip
    @tylerdurden-ch8ip ปีที่แล้ว +4

    love your content, please make one for Ottoman Empire

  • @dweeb24
    @dweeb24 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Amazing video man! can't wait for the reign of the Caliphs until 945

  • @MrArianM
    @MrArianM 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    perfect video. love your content.

  • @mr.patriotic881
    @mr.patriotic881 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love your videos

  • @elkhaqelfida5972
    @elkhaqelfida5972 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This is the era in islamic history that probably had the highest happiness/capita and scholar/capita.

    • @doriangrayapologist
      @doriangrayapologist ปีที่แล้ว +1

      if i were to live in any historical time period, i’d choose the abassid caliphate!

    • @cyberyousef7519
      @cyberyousef7519 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nope it isn’t
      The highest happiness in islamic history was during the caliphate and the time of the prophet

  • @baqiusmani786
    @baqiusmani786 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hello dear, what have you used for creating such videos, i mean what software, tools ... do you use? it would be so kind of you to suggest me those.

  • @Nasir3623
    @Nasir3623 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Interesting fact : French women Weren’t allowed to work without their husband’s permission until the 1960s

    • @arkseven
      @arkseven ปีที่แล้ว

      ⁠@Afghan Lion avg afghan

    • @12gmkk29
      @12gmkk29 ปีที่แล้ว

      Meanwhile turkish women had the equality since 1934

    • @cyberyousef7519
      @cyberyousef7519 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@12gmkk29 “equality” isn’t a good thing btq

    • @cyberyousef7519
      @cyberyousef7519 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@12gmkk29 women and men are different and the man is the provider and the leader naturally

  • @24xv555
    @24xv555 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Quality 🔥🔥🔥

  • @papazataklaattiranimam
    @papazataklaattiranimam ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Meanwhile Ibn Abi Amir set about making himself caliph in all but name. He recruited new elements into the army, notably Berber tribesmen from North Africa who were brought in not as individuals, like the Slavs from eastern Europe who formed the other main contingent in the armybut in tribal groups operating under their own leaders. His aim was to create an army of many different factions, none of which would be powerful enough to challenge him on their own. He also completed the demilitarization of most of the indigenous Muslim population of Andalus. The military might of the caliphate was now almost entirely composed of foreigners, Slavs brought in from eastern Europe, and Berbers, brought in from Morocco, just as in the Abbasid east it was largely composed of Turks brought in from Central Asia. It was a system which boosted the power of the rulers in the short term but had very deleterious consequences in the long run. This was especially true in Andalus where, in the thirteenth century Slavs and Berbers were no longer available and the local people had neither the resources nor the skills to defend their towns and villages against the advancing Christians.

    • @muhammadedwards8425
      @muhammadedwards8425 ปีที่แล้ว

      Failures of past generations who sought power. Inshallah the future would be great if we learned from them

  • @pseudonym9215
    @pseudonym9215 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    One of the most underrated History channels on TH-cam

    • @cyberyousef7519
      @cyberyousef7519 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Nope it isn’t lol
      Its viewing history from a western biased perspective

    • @sickboy2917
      @sickboy2917 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He is an atheist with a Muslim channel name .

  • @Guyfromfuture-vq2td
    @Guyfromfuture-vq2td 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Brilliant videos

  • @carltonleboss
    @carltonleboss 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very interesting stuff.

  • @fahdchmanti7632
    @fahdchmanti7632 ปีที่แล้ว

    i really need to know the name of the soundtrack in this video!!

  • @houseoftawhid
    @houseoftawhid ปีที่แล้ว

    Brother how do you edit the videos?

  • @beepboop204
    @beepboop204 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    damn i was literally wondering about this on the bus

  • @halimeeeee
    @halimeeeee ปีที่แล้ว

    FAV VIDEO!!
    Allahumma baarik

  • @zxera9702
    @zxera9702 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What an honor to live under the days of the khilafah wallahi also when is the Fatimid dynasty video comming

  • @rezasalamati9652
    @rezasalamati9652 ปีที่แล้ว

    Missed the opportunity to use a screenshot from Assassin's Creed Mirage which is set in Baghdad, 850.

  • @amori11100
    @amori11100 ปีที่แล้ว

    amazing video

  • @josmccarthy2901
    @josmccarthy2901 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Could you make videos about ottoman empire
    We would be pleased
    Thank you

  • @donistark
    @donistark ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm courious about banks in islamic medieval is it same like modern banks?

  • @SquaredCircIe
    @SquaredCircIe ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Love your unique content!

  • @farisabdurrahman8416
    @farisabdurrahman8416 ปีที่แล้ว

    Whats the soundtrack at 17:57 ?

  • @rafliysafariy9820
    @rafliysafariy9820 ปีที่แล้ว

    Masha Allah,best topic

  • @sariahmarier42
    @sariahmarier42 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I lived in Saudi Arabia for a year in the 90s, and there are a lot of points for discussion brought up in this video. First, the morality police were a thing and had a function to include obeying Islamic law in public appearance, dress, hair cut, clothing, behavior, etc. It was not uncommon to see them exercise their authority. (I was stopped quite frequently). Also, their markets were called the Souq, I wonder if it's a derivative of the word you mentioned. And wheels do not work on sand. People have suggested that Arabian and African cultures weren't intelligent enough to build the wheel, but wheels dont work on sand.
    There's more stuff... I might add when I watch this for the second time, because I always do. Great content!

    • @AlMuqaddimahYT
      @AlMuqaddimahYT  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Also, if you go to any Islamic country, you'll find markets like the ones I described with people putting their wares in the street and being an annoyance for passersby. Remarkable how some things don't change.

    • @sariahmarier42
      @sariahmarier42 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oh... The sale and purchase of alcohol was forbidden. But at the entry of every grocery store would be a pile 8ft high of everything you might want or need to brew your own, which we found intriguing.

    • @sariahmarier42
      @sariahmarier42 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@AlMuqaddimahYTJust want to mention how very appreciated your work is. You're one of my favorite content creators. I saw your video regarding anti-islamic sentiment and the burning of the library at Alexandra. It was very moving and well done!

  • @Caliban_80
    @Caliban_80 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can anyone recommend a good comprehensive history book of the Arabian region and culture?

  • @AMAli-ct5df
    @AMAli-ct5df ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "My theory is women were invented in the 18th century.😂😂😂😂
    That one really made me laugh

  • @user-vy2ux5oo5f
    @user-vy2ux5oo5f ปีที่แล้ว +2

    13:05 Hey , those are modern egyptian Coins with muhammed Ali Pasha Mosque on it 😂😂

  • @IamSolon
    @IamSolon ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Finally! The wait is over, I can finally rest.

  • @HolyArmor
    @HolyArmor ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Siavash are you from Iran ?

  • @muhammadalrubah8672
    @muhammadalrubah8672 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    anyone noticed how funny the narrator is with his hilarious comments? xD no really the guy got it in him

  • @12gmkk29
    @12gmkk29 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    When assassin creed mirage comes out i want you take us in a tour road by road teach everything about Baghdad.
    Just like what invetca did with assassin creed odyssey

  • @AMplaymaker93
    @AMplaymaker93 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As Salaamu Alaykum amazing quality of videos I must say!
    Can you remove the picture of the women when you were discussing prostitution as it was quite revealing and unbefitting for a channel of your calibre and respect to include regardless of how visually encapsulating it is for your discussion point.
    Thank you. Keep up the great work!

  • @alirazakhakwaniark9860
    @alirazakhakwaniark9860 ปีที่แล้ว

    Suggest me any authentic book on Mamoon Al-Rasheed

  • @OriginalVirtuoso
    @OriginalVirtuoso 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    @2:10 the sarcasm is astounding!🤣

  • @magma9000
    @magma9000 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I got Mangos you wanna buy it

  • @larrytuft9782
    @larrytuft9782 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks!

  • @MicaiahBaron
    @MicaiahBaron ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Wait a minute... You talk about poetesses and female singers about halfway into the video, but at the beginning you said women were invented in the 17th century. What gives?

    • @AlMuqaddimahYT
      @AlMuqaddimahYT  ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Those sources that talk about women were also invented in the 17th century. For legal reasons, I'm joking.

  • @SaSpursFan
    @SaSpursFan ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The non Muslims paid taxes but did not pay zakat from my understanding

    • @shahnazparvin7285
      @shahnazparvin7285 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He avoid it Muslim pay zakat

    • @Guyfromfuture-vq2td
      @Guyfromfuture-vq2td 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      zakat is fixed but jizya is not it can be higher than zakat or lower it depends on the ruler but i ca not think society and goverment can be run on 2.5 percent taxes although i heard only working men payed the jizya

  • @SPEEDYYYY22
    @SPEEDYYYY22 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Pls I have a few questions

  • @miketacos9034
    @miketacos9034 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I'd love to hear more about the matriarchal tribes in Arabia! I didn't know about that!

    • @SetuwoKecik
      @SetuwoKecik ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@mas-udal-hassan9277
      Shut up bot. Its unrelated.

    • @SetuwoKecik
      @SetuwoKecik ปีที่แล้ว

      @mas-udal-hassan9277
      Dont use quranic script to justify your biased political agenda, bot.

    • @cyberyousef7519
      @cyberyousef7519 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@SetuwoKecik cry me a river 😂

    • @SetuwoKecik
      @SetuwoKecik หลายเดือนก่อน

      @mas-udal-hassan9277 ok bot

  • @Nom_AnorVSJedi
    @Nom_AnorVSJedi ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Was there regular contact with the Tang dynasty in China?

    • @AlMuqaddimahYT
      @AlMuqaddimahYT  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not really. After the Battle of the Talas, there wasn't much contact between the two. Except, al-Mansur (I think) sent some men during the An Lushan Rebellion. They were known as the Black Flags because of the Abbasid black banner.

    • @Nom_AnorVSJedi
      @Nom_AnorVSJedi ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AlMuqaddimahYT what a pity. Two of the greatest empires on earth not talking regularly.

  • @istvansipos9940
    @istvansipos9940 ปีที่แล้ว

    19:57 tough guys in the corner of the Arabian Peninsula, or just tough terrain nobody bothered to conquer?
    thanks

    • @mhmadbedrddeen3414
      @mhmadbedrddeen3414 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The shia Zaydis in Yemen became pretty much independent from the sunni caliphate plus the rough terrain and the distance from the center of the empire

    • @mhmadbedrddeen3414
      @mhmadbedrddeen3414 ปีที่แล้ว

      @mas-udal-hassan9277
      Indeed what, what do you mean by mentioning this verse ?

  • @Cataphoric559
    @Cataphoric559 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you so much for recognising the male bias in the sources. I think that's the first time I've ever heard it noted in a historical documentary. ❤

  • @SetuwoKecik
    @SetuwoKecik ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can you talk about islamic medieval cuisines next? 😋

  • @CCCP_Again
    @CCCP_Again ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Every Muslim needs to watch this video.

  • @hanadsayid7081
    @hanadsayid7081 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Islamic civilization is a place where you don't have an idol but a statue. I think this is what made the golden age of Islam one of the greatest things that man has ever achieved.

    • @eee9034
      @eee9034 ปีที่แล้ว

      Islam can have golden age only why attacking and looting other nations

  • @alehaim
    @alehaim ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I have to commen that the Iranians have continued to have praise for their past as a basis for the own culture which to look back on, like how many Arabs and Muslims will look back on the first Caliphates. As for modern longing for the past, it's really a reaction to Islam being forced upon the Iranians by the Islamic republic that has grown increasingly distant with the people, instead of giving the people the ability to choose their religion, and how they live generally. It is the story of modern Iran, where change has been forced upon the population who have then pushed back with the alternative, as the modern Islamic republic came about in part due to the last Iranian dynasty's rulers forcefully modernizing the nation through secularisation, combined with reppression of dissent by force and the economic crisis.
    When you deprive the people the ability to determine their own fate peacefully, that desire to gain that choise will lead to more extreme change through violence.

    • @mhmadbedrddeen3414
      @mhmadbedrddeen3414 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It appears that you have zero knowledge of what the people of Iran want and don't want, stop looking at the world with your narrow western lebral lens and stop forcing your views on others, practice what you preach

    • @polishherowitoldpilecki5521
      @polishherowitoldpilecki5521 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@mhmadbedrddeen3414What do the people of Iran want according to you?

    • @mhmadbedrddeen3414
      @mhmadbedrddeen3414 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@polishherowitoldpilecki5521
      The majority of the Iranians support their country and their Islamic way of life, other regimes with no support would've changed already by the economic and cultural war against Iran for over 40 years if it weren't that much supported

    • @alehaim
      @alehaim ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@mhmadbedrddeen3414 The generation of women who grew up after the Islamic revolution in Iran want to choose whether to wear a veil or not themselves instead of having the decision be decided by old men. Religious choices should be the choice of a person themselves, instead of like in Iran where renouncing faith to Islam is punishable by death by law, which also states that basically all marriages lead to a non-Muslim woman becoming automatically Muslim while marriages with non-Muslim men aren't allowed.
      Also what you might not be aware of is the fact that the Iranian revolution was done by a lot of different groups who were much more popular than the more fringe hardline Shia clergy of Ayatollah, including republicans, social democrats, conservatives and all kinds of different anti-Shah forces. However it was a little thing of the Mosques having been the only place not surpressed by the Shah during his reign that gave the more fringe clergy disproportionate power following the revolution, which they used to betray literally all the other participants of the revolution in the name of forcing hardline Shia faith on Iran.
      A similar story played out in Cuba, where the anti dictatorship protestors succeeded who were in majority comprised of more social democratic/moderate socialists, only to see Fidel Castro's more hardline socialist communists take over after the revolution was won, ignoring the will of the majority.
      Also while the Iranian embargo today is less of a justified thing leftover from the cold war (though the idea of revoking them has become less popular after Mahsa Amini was beaten to death despite wearing the hijab correctly and the subsequent killing of protestors and gassing of girls schools), it was originally embargoed for the fact that the US embassy was attacked and the people inside were taken hostage, against basically all international law.

    • @mhmadbedrddeen3414
      @mhmadbedrddeen3414 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@alehaim
      The women and men of Iran elected their representatives for the parliament who is on charge of legislation and their legislation says it's against the law to not wear a scarf on the head, I bet whatever country you are from, it's legislation ban walking naked in public, why do you let "old men" decide for you by banning walking naked in the streets, typical liberal twisted logic, your subjective opinion of what is permitted and what is not is irrelevant, the world don't revolve around your oppressive ideology, what Islam permits and doesn't permits is none of your business, keep to your country and destroy your societies with woke culture and take your hands of of our way of life,
      The Iranian revolution was carried out by different groups yes but that majority of the people decided, again decided to make it an Islamic republic with Islamic law and traditions and customs having a role in their life, that's their choice, respect it and stop being hypocritical calling for democracy and liberty only when it suits you,
      The issue of Mahasa was a tragic case and the ones who were responsible got punished, are your racist police that kill and oppress based on color Angels ?? Save your hypocrisy, the US got what they deserve for meddling in other nations business, your governments killed the millions of people worldwide in that name democracy and freedom just to steal resources, your hypocrisy has no limits

  • @noorahamed8584
    @noorahamed8584 ปีที่แล้ว

    Informative video, one need to watch it twice to fully absorb and to share with kith and kin.
    Early Islamic societies during Abbasi period and Ummayad Califate of Spain prior to 1000 CE, as you will come to understand in this video, were quite liberal and advanced compared to what Muslims were prior to 1900 CE. Muslims empires declined starting from eleventh century to the start of Fourteenth century. Although Muslims made military advances in later centuries, fatalistic conservatism had displaced ijtihad and liberal thinking. It would be an eye opener for conservatives Muslims.
    You might be wondering why two different Abbasi period maps were shown on the video. Lager extent was in late eighth century CE and Smaller extent was in early tenth century. And later they just controlled Baghdad city and were uprooted in 1256CE by Halaku, the Mongol invader.
    I like Syawish Rehman’s unbiased accurate presentations in Al Muqaddimah with out letting down Ibn Khalidun’s legacy. You might have understood most of the terms he used, I want to clarify two Arabic words 1) Al-Mazalim is ‘Ombudsman’, I presume you know the role of office of Ombudsman 2) ‘Saraf’ is the money exchanger. In early days money was either in gold or silver, in Urdu we use Saraf for gold shops even today 😊

  • @mazinal-siyabi2719
    @mazinal-siyabi2719 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wish if I lived at that time.

  • @ahmedal-akki2078
    @ahmedal-akki2078 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    At the beginning of the video you said that you are not going to talk about women because they are absent from the Islamic sources and you even made a sarcastic remark about women being invented in the 18th century. Anyhow, at the middle of the video you started talking bout women during the period in question. I don’t understand what sources you used when talking about women. I’m starting to doubt the intentions of your channel. You seem like someone we say in Arabic: تدس السم في العسل

  • @Dawn.tless.
    @Dawn.tless. ปีที่แล้ว

    2:10
    Ngl, I really really love that theory

  • @Altair.1187
    @Altair.1187 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you brother I like your content.

  • @Deepak_Dhakad
    @Deepak_Dhakad ปีที่แล้ว

    Do daily life in Mughal Empire Agra Delhi or Deccan sultanates like bijapur

  • @ibadurrehman1210
    @ibadurrehman1210 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Dhimmi is pronounced as "Zimmi", the with the tongue in a position to make a more Z-like sound. It is derived from dhimma/zimma which means responsibilty. Dhimmis were called as such because they become the responsibility of the Islamic state to look after and protect in return for jizyah.

    • @esmaeelsamhan8161
      @esmaeelsamhan8161 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      No its a dhal sound ذ and should not be pronounced as "zimmi". Bless you brother make sure of the info that you give.
      ذمة is a person who has a covenant which means we as muslims have an obligations towards them and they have an obligation towards us too

    • @gtc239
      @gtc239 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No, the Dh sound is not pronounced as the Z sound. Dh is phonetically a dental fricative like the "TH" sound of English as in the word "the".

    • @AbdullahMikalRodriguez
      @AbdullahMikalRodriguez ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This is a common mistake made by some of the Indo-Paki brothers when speaking Arabic... do not give advice on speaking Arabic if you are not an expert brother.

    • @disturbedjester8154
      @disturbedjester8154 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Stick to one language

    • @toraxe9021
      @toraxe9021 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No Its like "themmi"

  • @polishherowitoldpilecki5521
    @polishherowitoldpilecki5521 ปีที่แล้ว

    What happened to the Bedouins after the conquests?

    • @y5anger
      @y5anger ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Many of them reverted back to nomadic life, during the later Abbasid caliphate armies had to be dispatched to assert control over land in Syria and Iraq that had been taken over by tribes.

    • @polishherowitoldpilecki5521
      @polishherowitoldpilecki5521 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@y5anger Crazy how they conquered empires and ushered in the Islamic golden ages.
      Only to go back as herdsmen.

    • @madhegelian4816
      @madhegelian4816 ปีที่แล้ว

      many of them settled in the newly founded cities and became urbanized, like basra - baghdad - kufa
      and some of them returned to the desert over conflicts and returned to nomadic life.

    • @madhegelian4816
      @madhegelian4816 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@y5anger and many settled in cities and became urban people.

    • @mrtrollnator123
      @mrtrollnator123 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@y5angersome settled in cities, some returned to nomadic life in the desert

  • @user-wz6ti9ig7y
    @user-wz6ti9ig7y ปีที่แล้ว +2

    3:54 Here you are wrong and not correct. The tribute tax is less than the zakat, so how do they convert to Islam because of the money and taxes!

    • @user-wz6ti9ig7y
      @user-wz6ti9ig7y ปีที่แล้ว

      Treating non-Arabs as a lower class than the Arabs happened at the end of the Umayyad state, not during the Rashidun Caliphate!

  • @mnco5741
    @mnco5741 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Could you please make a video about Kalam (speculative theology) and the differences that happened within the main Sunni theology schools through the caliphates starting from the Early days to today.

  • @novushomo1311
    @novushomo1311 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Iranian here: this man is firing shots and they're super accurate and fucking hurt 😂

    • @AlMuqaddimahYT
      @AlMuqaddimahYT  ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I love Iran and Iranian culture (especially the poetry) so much but Iranian Nationalists have been annoying me a lot recently.

    • @novushomo1311
      @novushomo1311 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@AlMuqaddimahYT Bro I could def tell you love Iran nd have a lot of Persian people in your life, you were too accurate 😂 ain't no one that don't love that place and people know that much. I used to be one of those annoying Iranian nationalists as a young man - it's practically a rite of passage for us all lol

  • @Kb4hax
    @Kb4hax ปีที่แล้ว

    "You could give someone a SUCC in exchange for goods."
    -Al Muqaddimah

  • @starcapture3040
    @starcapture3040 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    you didn't mention Zakat tax on Muslims

  • @eee9034
    @eee9034 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I believe the slaves who are captured in jihad and being sold in these caliph markets were very happy to be bought

    • @cyberyousef7519
      @cyberyousef7519 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes, if i was captured by the romans i would rather be given as a slave and bought rather than being put in a concentration camp 😂

  • @dannys4702
    @dannys4702 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why have you shortened the map of Abbasids and Umayyad till Alexandria Egypt, I believe they already had conquered till Tunisia, and in 712 H Mohammad Bin Qasim conquered Indian Gujarat and in 714 H Spain had been conquered by Tariq Bin Ziyad.

    • @TingTong2568
      @TingTong2568 ปีที่แล้ว

      Are you lost? This is about Abbasid Caliphate and not Umayyad Caliphate.

    • @dannys4702
      @dannys4702 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TingTong2568 I know but even the Abbasids were ruling from Baghdad till Morocco in West.

    • @TingTong2568
      @TingTong2568 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dannys4702 the Abbasids lost control of Morocco and Algeria due to the Berber revolt during the end of Ja'far Al mansur's reign. Over all the Abbasid caliphate's empire stretches from Tunisia in West to the Indus river in Sindh, Pakistan.

    • @mrtrollnator123
      @mrtrollnator123 ปีที่แล้ว

      They did take over briefly but they revolted and developed their own kingdoms

  • @ocudagledam
    @ocudagledam ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "So, in the first century of Islam, the conquests were bringing Muslims a lot of captured booty. There was also a lot of loot." Ok, mister funny historian, nice one. :D

    • @cyberyousef7519
      @cyberyousef7519 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ok and what is wrong with what he said?

  • @JohnnyLodge2
    @JohnnyLodge2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Haha he said "booty" haha

  • @alenezi989a3
    @alenezi989a3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    4:00 in regards to the Jizya, I think there are some mistakes, the Jizya is not far more than Zakat, in fact in many cases it would be less than the Zakat, therefore avoiding the Jizya wouldn't have been a valid reason to convert especially since women, children, elderly, people with disabilities, the poor and religious people like priests and monks do not pay the Jizya while only adult men capable of fighting are required to pay it, but the Zakat is paid by any adult male and female so only children and the poor would not pay, hence it would be disadvantageous for most of these groups to convert to islam if the purpose was only to avoid the Jizya. The Jizya amout was from 1 dinar to 4 while the Zakat is 2.5% of the yearly income which could be much more than the Jizya.

    • @EV-EV-EV
      @EV-EV-EV ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Keep speaking from your feelings while he speaks from the historical data.

    • @alenezi989a3
      @alenezi989a3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @EV-EV-EV what feelings? These are historical facts, these are the rules of the Jizya like it or not. I don't think in the video he provided any kind of historical sources or references to back up what he said so why are you assuming that what he is saying is based on historical data? What I said is how Jizya has been historically applied, we have hadeths to tell us the rules of Jizya we historical events that proves how it was applied and we have Omarian treatise that provides even more evidence. I have no interest in defending the Abbasid Caliphate but those were the rules of Jizya history doesn't care about your biases or feelings. If you have any counter arguments then please provide the historical references and sources.

    • @cyberyousef7519
      @cyberyousef7519 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@EV-EV-EV what historical data? Lmao

  • @D00Rb3LL
    @D00Rb3LL ปีที่แล้ว

    Anyone want to give me a sakk for goods?

  • @awabgabir1972
    @awabgabir1972 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Amazing video brother. Very well presented and researched. But the joke @ 2:12 was off-putting. It projected modern liberal feminists' (which are self-contradictory and false ideologies regardless) standards of the West to the past.

  • @loudirga
    @loudirga ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why do you say the tax for non muslim is high in this era? While the fact is the jizyah for non moslem was lower than zakat for moslems?

    • @AlMuqaddimahYT
      @AlMuqaddimahYT  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Just because Islam says that it should be lower doesn't mean that it was. People do all kinds of things Islam doesn't allow.

    • @loudirga
      @loudirga ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AlMuqaddimahYT so we need to see the record. Islam says it's lower or not, we need to see how much and how Jizyah was actually, right?