If you're an undergrad Adam then you really don't need to stress all that much. To say that undergrad history courses are a joke is an understatement. They don't go into detail on anything, just a general overview of major events and personalities. We spent maybe three hours on the entirety of the Roman era, for example, all the way from the beginning of the Republic to the end of the Empire. We never even went over the Muslim-Sassanid conflicts either, just a general overview of Muhammad's beginnings and his eventual conquest of the Arabian peninsula.
@@ericharrison7518 i'm studying a history of capitalism course and we've got comparative analyses of kocka, applebee, slobodian or brook, as well as the construction of the notion of capitalism throughout asia, india, europe and africa, as well as myriad of possible causes of its development. Although normally I find history as a hobby very intuitive and perhaps easy, studying it in this perspective I find really challenging. However, what I find the most difficult on the course is writing a long paper on the selected segment of the topic, on which I'm brooding right now. But I enjoy it very much.
@@gerardb5220 No, not at all! I am writing thesis on a completely different topic and field of study, this was the distraction and relaxation I needed.
It's fascinating to see Tulayha, who suffered defeats at the hands of the brilliant Khalid ibn al-Walid use Khalid's own style of warfare against the Persians
@@baha3alshamari152 What's more fascinating is that these former enemies of Islam fought for Islam with greater fervour than they did against it. Such displays of faith and devotion are pretty rare in history.
Khalid himself destroyed the Muslims in Auhud and nearly wiped out Islam from history, I don’t know how he got this Great War mind and such brilliance despite being cut out from warfare history and experience of other empires due to the deserts of Arabia.
@@zakariaalami1491 Or very likely because they knew they were given a second chance and couldn't expect another one, so they had to be succesful. Moreover it is not impossible that they were so devoted just to show that they are loyal. Ofcourse there also will be those that are strengthen by the message, but to think that is the most common (or even most) case is dangerous in terms of revisionism.
@@MrCAlberto123451 OP never said they called it that because it was a victory over the "king of kings." They just said that they appreciate the parallel. Your comment could have been informative without your need to be "correct" about something that wasn't claimed.
I've become so addicted to the early expansion of Islam series that I watch the same videos again and again almost every day. Kings and Generals, please do more of them! Your content is priceless, absolutely priceless!
Like Sun Tzu said, deception is perhaps the strongest tactic of all time: “All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.” - The Art of War
@@cewolf78PEACE BE UPON HIM and All and Peace on All PROPHETS of GOD…he didn’t say trick he said war is deception. Same as this quote you imbecile…Learn Arabic before speaking.
@Samir Dizco OK cool for them I guess. I never said anything about the mortality of his actions. Only he's interessting to learn about. Ceasar commited genocide in gaul, doesn't mean I don't wanna learn history about him.
Sahabas are trained by our beloved prohet PBUH. They were undoubtedly true Islamic persons after Our beloved prohet Muhammad PBUH. We pray to Allah to give us the right direction of Islam . Irrespective of any firqas , fitnas, etc we are the ummah of beloved prohet Muhammad PBUH.
@@uberjoe-08 lol the fact u mentioned "flat earth" tells alot of what u studied m8 u can Lie to us and wonder we wont notice we dont give 2 shits about liers like u. I study Quran, medicine and Astrology every single day m8. Alhamdullilah As i go through The Quran and learn new things through my studies and research my belief In Islam Grows strong. As Allah Has mentioned in the Quran that He has Given us signs, only those who think can see them, understand them. But those who dont Are distracted away from the truth choice is urs. U wanna see the truth or just live in lies. Wont effect Allah in any matter whether u believe in Him or not. Its for our own betterment.
Can't help playing an armchair general and wonder why so many generals fell for the same tactic of feint retreat and ambush. Reconnaissance is probably an underrated aspect of war.
They might have done some scouting ahead in front of them and follow the Muslim army but didn't expect them to be in that ridge, since it is considered in their side and the muslims probably sneaked there at night.
Many reasons often different from one instance to the next. Overall though advanced battlefield maneouvers are very difficult and require a well disciplined core of veteran soldiers. We talk about the times it worked because it leads to these stunning victories that reshape history but we don't talk about the thousands of times it failed. A feigned retreat can very quickly turn into a real retreat and looks like one from an observers perspective so many attempts never even get recognized as what they were. Also the general knowledge of tactics and strategy that we enjoy simply didn't exist back then, they relied mostly on the experience of veterans to teach young leaders and the efficacy of this varies wildly. Lastly as you pointed out Reconnaissance was generally underrated. Rome was famously bad at scouting for several centuries as their noble born cavalry felt that scouting missions were beneath their status.
Remember messages and scouting reports had to brought manually back to the commanders and by the time they arrived there was a good chance the enemy had moved again. Communications weren't always anywhere near as fast as they are now.
A feigned retreat proposes a wager to enemy. Put yourself in the shoes of the Persians,they were getting grinded for like ages by the Caliphate. They were on defensive and destabilised. They needed something to turn the tables, something like a decisive victory. See how hard it would to leave alone enemy unscathed which could have been destroyed? Even if you consider the risks of a Feigned retreat,the temptation of the possibility of great victory can overwhelm you .It has happened many times in history a Victory fell short of being decisive because of caution. These are the moments which differentiate a good General from a Great one.
@@gerardb5220 so all the inhabitants of the town are all been executed? For what reason? If they killed civilians indiscriminately in the name of their god, then no one will follow their religion and they wouldn't be able to hold these lands as there will be rebellions everywhere.
The Sassanids were grasping their dreams of restoring the Achaemenid Empire until Heraclius rallied the Eastern Romans and restored the pre-war borders. Then everything went downward spiral from there, starting with palace intrigue, civil war and then the Arab invasion. So close to touching the stars but they fell and instead became conquered. Great series K&G, as always awesome material!
@Metallus Zorax Khosrow II was not entirely capable, afterall he was the one that ended up losing to the Romans and basically destroying the empire, he also made some foolish decisions like annexing the lakhmids etc.
they restablished achaemenid borders untill general shahrvaraz betrayed khosrow and joined heraclius because of a fake letter from khosrow khosrow parviz's greatest mistake was marrying a byzantine woman, later his son from byzantine mother killed him and kavadh himself didn't live long
@@immortal5563 harvaght harja emperaturi az iran soqut karde ya bega rafte hamishe paye ye khianat kar vasat bude nemidunam in che serie.hamishe in mardom amade khianat kardanan
@@Cataphracts_History الانم همینطوریه دوباره ایران داره امپراطوری میشه ولی یه سری خیانت کار وطن فروش میگن ایران در عراق و سوریه و لبنان و یمن چی کار میکنه
This might have been my favorite episode you've ever done. Firstly because I just didn't know how it would end based solely on the existence of modern countries. Both Arabs and Iranians exist in the Middle East today. Second, the practicality of everyone involved. Nobody in the battle was foolhardy or brash. Everything cold and calculated. Even when the Sassanids fell for the bait, they did so incredibly carefully and even had the correct contingent plan to counter the trap. So cool! I was seriously out of breathe and excited to see how this would end. Simply bravo for this episode, guys!
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@@ChillScare_ChroniclesIt explains nothing. Nothing in all of this section of history makes any sense to me. Arabs were JACKALS. Nobodies who had NEVER been anything. Suddenly they defeated PERSIANS like it was nothing. With armies of laughable size. It makes no sense. What happened to the world? Justinian's Plague devastated the world and then the following wars left EVERYTHING in ruins? Did the Arabs conquer ruins and wastelands?
The caliphate's generals have cemented themselves in the annals of military history 🔥💪🏼. Almost always outnumbered, yet victorious. Excellent video as always.
@@gerardb5220 well in any case if they were not outnumbered, they still cemented their military prowess in the annals of military history by conquering so much, so fast. That is no small feat.
@@gerardb5220 i doubt that rich provinces where the reason behind all that zeal and discipline speaking of numbers, i also doubt that few desert warriors could outnumber large imperial mobilisation, numbers were rarely a direct or an indirect reason for winning wars and battles anyways even as a non muslim you have to respect those guys and not give silly ( reasons ? ) on why muslims won
@@gerardb5220 and I agree with you. They are not the best ethical examples (and that applies to any conqueror muslim or not). But the fact of the matter is that the Rashindun Caliphate Army had great generals, and they conquered a vast sum of territory in the span of a few years. That on itself is a great feat of Military History, and that's a real fact. That is all I wanted to say. I'm tired of the stupid conflict some historians have over the Muslim Conquests, just because they dislike the idea of watching the Romans and Sassanian Armies loose to an "inferior" enemy. They lost, nothing we can do about it, a new Empire came to dominate. That's human history since our civilizations rose. Empires rise, get their golden age and then fall; or are displaced by another empire.
@@gerardb5220 i'm not guessing, you're doing so, by assuming that they wanted rich pronvinces and plunder, look, i'm muslim, i understand their moral and their motives more than yours, are we going to talk about japenese history by "Not" using japenese sources ? if you find other sources that bring contradictory narrative, we're all ears :)
You might have missed one great aspect of the victory on the muslim side, its Omar bin al Khattab, one of the greatest leaders of the Islamic history, humble and extremely intelligent powerful leader who conquered Persia and Egypt, and defeated the romans and still live in his old humble house made of mud. Muslims then took decisions in groups, even prophet Mohammad was ordered in Quraan to take his decisions in groups, small councils includes the most intelligent men of the time, favoriting no one, no family member nor friend.
@@muazthunder Then it's clear that you know nothing about islam. the religion when raping children and prisoners is encouraged, where minorities are persecuted, critics, apostates, homosexuals, adulterers and heretics are murdered. the religion who's "prophet" molested and raped children, stole, murdered, tortured, mutilated and enslaved people. Which of those isn't evil?
@@HannarrMontannarr yea yea keep saying that non sense argument yet Muslim grow rapidly now even in the land where islamophobic were majority.. in fact Indonesia has 270 million population and 87% of them were muslim.. yet we lived in peace and tolerance😌
@@MikaelGymBro As i can see Envyness , jealousy , covetousness , discontent , spite and grudge on your personality and character even if that courageous man was coward why we would use to travel 700miles from Medina to jerusalem & Damascus with a single camel and freed servant and take highly risks without any entourage and security protocol or personal safety guards for various protection and even Lord Ali a.s advises that he should refrain and prevent to led the islamic forces of Qadsiyya when he was in a highly invocation and solicination but he suggest him to stay at medina just because if he got absence from title of caliph the arabs will revolt and rebels betrays against the governance as caliphate collapse but still he used to spend life in simplicity as gandhi says ; Abu Bakar and Umer a.s used to be the stewards of whole vast undefeatable imperialism and still prefer to live in austerity as he extend that even if someone like Umer born in india , every single issue , disputes and problems will be solved as an representative of romans came to medina and highly shocked after seeing poverty surrounding of capital of world soul supreme power and extremely shocked after seeing Umer ibn al khattab used to sleep on floor as he says ; "If a men doesn't be able to learn from alliance he absolutely learns greatness from enemies as our ruler made corruptions and are cruel and ruthless still they are in longing to have curators and custodians besides them but then there's you Umer who spread justice but still be not afraid of world" people like you only envy or read greatness with nasty eyes of radicalism and hostile towards those whose superiority are above then starry heavens , poor you bedouin! As you are trying to show your irrelevant negligible "shitis" deism , even the truth has been accepted by the world as he would coward why should the makkah afraid of him and prophet gave him title of ethical and he was the men that islam got highly respect with while he was the only men to openly announce his migrations As he says ; "the one who want his wife to be an widow , his mother and offspring laments come behind the mountain" as the enemies of islam even romans and persian afraid of him
@@addictedtragedy2788 Your two page bullshit comment doesn't deserve to be read. I say it short: You say Umar was a brave and a great warrior who did conquer bla bla bla.... But your own books and sources say that he scaped from all battles during Prophet era. If you are son of your father bring even one source from your own book to prove that Umar have killed even one enemy of Islam!
@@MikaelGymBro Umar Ibn Al Khattab's reign was the most stable and peaceful time in the history of Islamic rule. It was also the time the armies of Islam defeated and crushed two world superpowers into the dust. The reason behind his success was his fair and just treatment of his people and his prolific governance and administration. He was kind to his people and strict with his governors. He lived a stoic life and made sure that people in his government avoided materialism and excess wealth. Islam would never have been powerful if it didn't have a ruler like Umar I.
i will wtch hours and hours of ads just for you i m a muslim by birth and i studied the history of muslims but yur channel is masterpiece it made us being in scene!!!!!!!!!!! your creativity never ceases to amaze me cant wait for new episodes thank you so much for your Scientific Integrity جزاك الله خيرا from morooco
Like every indian/banladeshi ever.. Start your introduction mentioning your job: I am a captain but i would like to order a pizza.. I am an architect but i would like to cross the road...
@@jevinliu4658 They actually might have, indirectly. The Islamic Golden age ushered such development, like the concept of Algorithms and Algebra, that actually made it possible to reach the moon lol.
@@zainwaseem5507 didn't that was already invented but the Arabs translated Greeks, indian and Chinese manuals into arabic which later spread to Europe?
Very intensive, it's truly the greatest battle of the Sassanid-Muslim War since al-Qadisiyyah, and also one of the most awesome episode among Kings and Generals' videos. For each time the Sassanid Persian army was so close to victory, the Arabs always turned the table ! Both sides performed the incredible leadership and prowess in battle.
@Mehmat BloodÀXE rashideen caliphs are arabs from arabia...yes they are muslims in religion but arabs in race ... i know that you know that very well ...but it is the "jealousy" :))
@@carltonbauheimer The very same ancient cultures that came to be through the annihilation of other cultures? Why don't I see people like you on videos about roman conquests? Or is it only bad when a group of people you don't like do it?
Thanks King and generals for such a great video and explaining the battle in detail. This war was the definition of winning the battle, but losing the war for Persians.
I'm pretty sure Tulayha learnt his tactics from Khalid after he was defeated by him. The feigned crescent retreat followed by total envelopment was Khalid's favorite style of fighting battles
14:10 A minor inconsistency: the muslim noon prayer by definition starts after the sun was on the highest point (zenith). Consequently the sun can't be on the highest point after the noon prayer. However, great video as always! This is one of the best series I have ever watched, keep it up!
هل فخور بن مسليمة الكذاب، ابو لهب، ابو جهل، عبدالله بن سلول، الوليد بن مغيرة، وهند بن عتبة ااي قتلت عم النبي عليه السلام؟ ترا هذول كانوا ايضا اجدادك يا اخ ااعرب.
@@Onlyme2015 للتوضيح، كل ما قلته أن هذه القناة تطرح التاريخ الإسلامي بشكل رائع وأفضل مما تعلمناه في مدارسنا، لا أرى العلاقة بين تعليقك وتعليقي أخي الفاضل
Nineveh, Al-Quasiddiyah, and Nahavand turned the Sassanid empire from a superpower into dust. There were other battles in-between, but those three were decisive. A plague, civil wars, and the breakaway of the eastern provinces didn't help.
2:40 Both the cities of Kufah and Basrah became well-established and highly important cities for the future of Islam, for it was there that the most skillful of literary scholars gathered and collected knowledge about the Quran and hadiths for the learning of future generations
It had to happen ..arabs wanted to take islam into heartland of iranian culture...Iranians already had better...written religion...they had to make islam bit modern...codified...
@@themercifulguard3971 the truth which arabs do not want to hear...peace to Arabia.. peace to iran...but let's accept it...iran is the true leader of Islamic world..so called Persia..
@@jagatdave you are so lost , When Prophet Muhammad Saw send invitations to Islam the King of Persian tear the paper and before the emissary return the Prophet got the News from Angel Gibrael and The Prophet cursed him may Allah tear his Empire (just because you tear my paper) and the new got after few days that the nephew of Persian King killed his uncle ( Persian King) And he said how evil are you you take married women that belong to someone else and throw the Persian King from castle
Sir Muhammad Iqbal wrote: "If you ask me what is the most important event in the history of Islam, I shall say without any hesitation: “The Conquest of Persia.” The battle of Nehawand gave the Arabs not only a beautiful country, but also an ancient civilization; or, more properly, a people who could make a new civilisation with the Semitic and Aryan material. Our Muslim civilisation is a product of the cross-fertilization of the Semitic and the Aryan ideas. It is a child who inherits the softness and refinement of his Aryan mother, and the sterling character of his Semitic father. But for the conquest of Persia, the civilisation of Islam would have been one-sided. The conquest of Persia gave us what the conquest of Greece gave to the Romans."
It's amazing how an evil ideology like islam can turn what was a relatively sophisticated and refined country like ancient persia and turn it into a backwards shithole like iran.
@@HannarrMontannarr Surly you are an ignorant dumb , when we talk about Islamic civilization we are not talking about political filthy regimes in 20th century & after that are not Islamic but using the costume of islam to role , we are taking about a centuries of golden ages of Islamic Empires were the principles of islam were applied ( justice , freedom of thinking etc ) that established the first universities in the world , hospitals, libraries were in Baghdad , damascus Tunisia morroco, Spain etc are good examples about that , in fact Islamic world during that time was the world center for sciences and philosophies , medicine & mathematics for centuries that after 1492 exported to europe . While in Europe during that time ( 700-1450 )people where washing them selves once in life according to church instructions , & if a man had a severe headache they were thinking that the evil is living in his head & people were believing that the solar eclipse is caused by monster who ate the sun , while Muslims were precisely calculated the earth circumflex and created Algebraic calculations , and were having a great astronomical and geographical sciences that days . You laterally need to read more .. dumb .
One minute silence for persians ,when the caliph is saying we don't want to go further but persians are like come let's take rest of the empire. Btw nice efforts put by kings and generals.
@@baha3alshamari152 Due credit goes to them as well as a superpower but also, Umar R.A. didn't want to expand the empire more. It is extremely difficult to manage one specially back then. But, I would say they were only powerful till 1000, after then it is all downhill and getting slapped by turks.
@Amr Mماهم قصد توهین به عقاید کسی نداریم افغان ها و تاجیکها هم برادران و هم تبار ما هستن ما که اسلام آوردیم دیگه نمیدونم جون ما چی میخواین؟ خیلی ببخشید که نتونستیم براتون بردگی کنیم ؟ طرف داره با افتخار میگه به اسم دین خدا شهراتونو آتیش زدیم زن و بچه هاتونو اسیر گرفتیم و مرداتونو گردن زدیم من بیام قربون صدقش برم ؟ کدوم نژاد پرستی ؟ ولله که آتش پرستی به صدتا داعشی شرف داره! بگذریم که آتش مثل کعبه توی اسلام نماد مقدسیه و در اصل خدای یکتا پرستش میشه. بگذریم که هرکسی به ما میگه آتش پرست قرآن رو هم نخونده چون در قرآن مجید از زرتشتیها به عنوان اهل کتاب یاد شده. من افتخار میکنم که آتش پرستم
Awesome video. Love the early Muslim conquest video's. I would love to see more soon. But I also want to see more video's on the Imjin War too. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.
@@adhityoprathamaadji2393 Immortal meaning he never lost battles in his life and that itself is a miracle but eventually when the time came he died in bed.
This made me realize how countless heroes of Islam have sacrificed their dear life and have endured in order for Islam to emerge victorious and become a major religion in countries like Egypt, Iran, Iraq and so on. Had it not been done we who are enjoying their fruits of labour would have been undergoing oppression and injustice. MAY ALLAH GRANT THEM ALL JANNAH ❤
@@HhrirheYes, it is true, God made this world just a test and a trial, simply because when will you die? You do not know, we are only honored guests in this life.. Omar bin Al-Khattab, which you hear about, and our Messenger Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, used to tie their stomachs with stones out of extreme hunger.. You will ask and say why the Messenger did not ask God for money and food because, quite simply, his concern was to send the message. He was entrusted with it by God, which is Islam, and he was thinking about (Paradise).
@@mahdimehdi445 الا فيه اخطاء مثل حديث عمر الذي يقول ليت بيننا وبين فارس جبل من نار هذا حديث ضعيف جدا ولا يؤخذ به وهو من المصادر الاسلامية مع ذلك القناة هذي حاطته بالبداية
I feel like a child waiting for the next episode of my favorite show to air to I love the Islamic expansion series I hope it never ends love this channel god bless Kings and General’s channel nice job.💪👍
Umar is a very logical man. Albeit his decisions were sometimes controversial (e.g. Khalid recalled from military duty), it's always based on logic that unstopable military machine like him might have gained fanatic supporters unintentionally (khalid wasn't known as political man unlike Mu'awiyah ibn Abi Sufyan) if let loose for too long despite his contributions for Islam. That decision also opening up for another officers to shine. Truly, Islamic government was at its peak military and administration under Umar ibn Khatthab Radiyallahu 'Anhu.
Akhi we love Khalid radiAllahu3anhu but Khalid was only removed not because of hatred or envy as some western orientalist try to portray umar RA but it was because umar wanted to stop the rumors of Muslims wining battle after battle because of Khalid…when victory is only from Allah, but Khalid was just a means Allah used to grant victory to Islam and the muslims( rAnhum ajma3een) that’s the reason why its mentioned in our books of Hadith/fiqh- seerahtul sahaba and kutub Al jihad from mass transmitters. Western academia try’s to portray some sahaba especially umar as bad because a lot of Shia are in those institutions…They have this deep hatred that the blessed companions spread Islam and therefore deviated from the teachings of prophet Muhammad Alayhisalatuwasalam which is complete BS. JazakAllahukhayran just wanted to clarify
The strategy of this battle and every step is just a masterpiece. The 2nd half of it involving the trap could not have been possible without the 1st two failed human waves which made the Persians actually fall for the trap, and unable to consider the possibility Muslims could flip the table around (which they ended up doing). Even on the brink of losing and the odds against em, the Muslims still managed to turn it around at the last second for a decisive victory. No doubt it had a huge psychological effect throughout the persian empire that God was really on the side of the Muslims.
Persians were also powerful you guys made an empire who controlled 42% of the people in Achaemenid Persian empire and also Sassanids Persians under shapur the great and khorasaw and well you guys are the only one who defeated the ummayds once and for all love to your people from Saudi Arabian wish we can achieve peace one day 🇸🇦❤️🇮🇷
@@gerardb5220 The Muslim army were outnumbered by 2 to 1 far away from supply attacking a well built defence. By now Sassanian had exhausted themselves with constant war against the Romans and infighting.
Well if it helps, keep in mind that an empire is the private property of the archfigure of a rich family, thus while this was very sad for the House of Sassan (the ruling family) and their Knights, it meant little difference to the commonfolk as they still had to pay rent for land every harvest. Meet the new boss, same as or worse than the old boss.
They kinda paid for their arrogance towards the Arabs and needless aggression towards the Romans tho. All they and their overly ambitious kings brought to Middle East was instability and needless destruction. Suddenly declare war on Rome, sack a whole lot of cities in the Levant, crumble when the Romans caught a whiff of what was happening and watch Ctesiphon get sacked for the umpteenth time lol. Their destruction doesn't sadden me. It brought centuries of much needed peace, prosperity, cultural and scientific growth back to the region.
@@DieNibelungenliad Yes and no. Like, I agree with your point but at the defeat of Sassanids as well as Byzantines also spread the Islam around the whole area there. Which is one of the greatest tragedies that ever happened, coz the today's states there still suffer because of it.
@@TheHed94 today's states are not suffering because of islam ..but because of zionism ,western intervention and disgusting leaders /politicians (most of whom are supported by the west )
What a carnage it would be! And what an adept strategic machination from the side of the Arab generals! Once again, I was soaked from the video's topic!
You refer to Ali as Muhammad's son in law, but don't mention that Uthman himself was also Muhammad's son in law, twice over. He married two of Muhammad's daughters but they are less famous than Fatimah. Apparently Sunnis and Shi'ites disagree on whether Muhammad's other daughters were biologically his, or from Khadija's previous marriage. This may be why Ali is presented as "the son in law" despite not being the only one to hold that distinction.
Technically, all the four caliph is have connection and become family to Prophet Muhammad PBUH. Abu Bakar and Umar is father in law of prophet while Uthman and Ali is the son in law of prophet
@@Ahadun_ahd Are you saying the Shi'ites opinion doesn't really matter? Their position is not unreasonable. Khadija was a widow and an older woman. It makes sense she would have children from the previous marriage and that she would be too old to have over four children with Muhammad.
@Yunus - Jonah 1st of all u got it wrong. She was older and that's agreed upon but The Prophet was 25 whilst Khadijah was around 5 years older, not 15 years older as laymen tend to believe.
Sassanid? First time I read that name outside of an actual paper book. It's very nice to see a channel that brushes more obscure subjects. These things also shaped world history. In fact, the Sassanian and the Parthian before them had an incredible influence on European (and central Asian history) influencing mounted warfare in what would both become the knightly kingdoms and the steppe people. (notwhistanding their cultural influence, such as a story of a round table with noble warriors led by a lord holding a magical sword, among many other tales...)
@@scourgeofgodattila4366 اشهد ان لا اله الا الله واشهد ان محمد رسول الله / oh Turk don’t lie The Persian Empire was completely conquered by the early Muslim Arabs until the Shah's crown was cut to small pieces
Khalid! The drawn sword of Allah. May Allah reward him and his brave soldiers for us being believers now.. Thank you for shedding light on these great battles. A great effort.
very informative. love learning these. I'm inspired throughout the whole playlist featuring the early Islamic expansion, looking forward to exploring more! thank you @kings and Generals.
I love Islamic history and because I'm passionate about it and intrigued so much i decided to learn Arabicand I did, just 2 years ago i did not understand a word in Arabic and now I'm fluent, Islamic history is full of intriguing stories and enlightenment-eras and historic battles, from the early rashidun caliphate into the umayyad caliphate and the Abbasid caliphate and the big empires and the golden age of islamic sciences in andalusia.
Do not be surprised how the Muslims exterminated one of the greatest empires in the history of the Persian Empire, as the Muslims in this formed a striking force with their new tactics in war and the determination of the desert men, whose physical strength was incomparable to others because they were raised in a harsh environment, namely, the desert that prompted them to master the arts of fighting since childhood and patience. In war, the thing that was not present in its contemporaries, in addition to the moral and spiritual strength that the Prophet Muhammad added to them and the strength of Islamic law that provides them with patience and steadfastness, even if they are few on the battlefield
@@mohamedbenmed8969 OH, I´m for sure not. I very well understand the how and why and the muslim armies have my full respect. However, there were also other factors in the game. But I wanted to point our another point in my original post: the Persians are always painted as weak in terms of war and mostly on the loosing side - like the defeats in the Greek-Persian wars or at the hand of Alexander the Great. We should always remember that even the strongest will fall someday.
@@ronin47-ThorstenFrank You can also see the victories of the Muslims over the great Byzantine Empire ... in the Battle of Yarmouk and in Ajnadin, under the leadership of the Muslim leader Khaled Ibn Al-Walid ... The defeat of two of the most powerful empires in history, the Byzantine and Persian empires against the Muslims was not an ordinary thing. In the causes of defeat
@@ronin47-ThorstenFrank no you are wrong, every one knows how strong the persians are, that is why everyone is proud when they defeat persians, we Arabs still remember a battle one tribe won before Islam against the persians, they probably did not care much about it but it was a pride for that tribe to this day.
@@noraha8181 That´s a question of the point of view. I write this from the narrow western perspective trying to depict Persians in that way. So, "everyone knows" is a bit wrong - it´s a question what kind of education you´ve got. I did need a lot of books to revise this view and start to appreciate the Persian history.
Outnumbered, and fighting in the open fields against a better equipped enemy and still crush you're enemy. This is not human, these were people choose by god, agree or disagree. Facts
Many names have been carried throughout history in many parts of the world. but for Iran, all these names, either people or cities and provinces, have remained the exact same to this date, every time I see such documentaries especially the ones about Sasanians, I get this very bizarre feeling as if it all just happened "yesterday and very recently" ! I've been to south of Iran many times and seeing all those Sasanian rock reliefs, and most names of the cities being exactly what they were 1500 years ago(and more) makes it strange(even the vocabulary is understandable despite being so old). Thanks for the video, I'd seen many more but not this particular battle on this channel.
The sassainans were horrible. If you want to understand what sassanians really are look at ottoman empire. Useless war machine with no real achievments. The real achievments were under islam. So go and thank god for islam, who brought science and knowledge to persians.
@@ezpz9340 What nonsense you talk🤣🤡 Do you really think that it was the Arabs and Islam who brought science to Iran? Or was Iran the center of science and knowledge in the Abbasid Empire? Almost all the scholars of the Golden Age of Islam were Persians, Islamic architecture was modeled on Persian architecture, Islam religion is largely influenced by Zoroastrian religion. It is not us who should be thankful to you dear friend, you should be thankful to us!! What did you Arabs have? No civilization, no architecture, no science and not even writing! In fact, your example about the Ottoman Empire is more similar to you than to us, the Persians and the Sasanian Empire were great and important civilizations and had many influences, but U were nothing. In my opinion, the Ottomans were even much more civilized than your caliphs.
Absolutely incredible that the Persians were taken down in this manner. A 20 year war with the eastern Romans and a civil war literally right before the Muslims arrived put the Sassanids at an all-time low and constituted right place, right time for the Muslims for sure. But still, they were taking on the two superpowers of the western world at the same time and won both. Crazy. After this battle, the last Persian Shah roamed around from region to region trying to drum up support but was turned down at every point. Irán had devolved into a territory of warlords governing small kingdoms in Kazakhstan, Persia, and Central Asia. The Muslims would pick them off one by one. Yazdegerd eventually fled northeast into Turkic land and further to China. He was killed in Central Asia by a miller, in an armed robbery. So ended the great Persian Sassanid Empire.
It's like saying Madagascar defeated the USA after its war in Vietnam, no friend that's not an excuse at all. Persia had all the better and more resources, technologies, experience etc..., and almost in all the Arab vs Persia battles the Persian army had the higher numbers of army, better weaponry and even the defensive positions which is an advantage by itself, despite the better and shorter supply lines. Saying Persia was in war, civil war, and plague, all of these events occured on Arabs simultaneously, and in a more deadly percentage, due to the worse and more primitve health system than the one was in Persia or the SPQR, one of the stories that a full muslim army died out of the plague, and the civil war of Ridah killed most of the prophet companions, the civil war in persia was nothing comparing to Ridah wars.
@@mebarkiimad8999 If you believe the Muslim sources on numbers for these armies, I have a Nigerian prince for you to talk to. The Persians could dream of 60k field armies, but 10k was more realistic. Anyway, yes. The Persians were most definitely at a very low point when the Muslims hit from the south. That’s what a 20 year world war style war, followed immediately by a devastating civil war, decentralization, and plague will do to a country. It was perfect place, perfect time for the Muslims, the way I see it.
Antiquity and the middle age armies when someone does something very predictable: Wow! That is the most destructive maneuver ever! 2 weeks later in an other battle the same things happen: Wow! Who could have predicted that!
yeah but you have to realize the communication was abysmal so to hope for any smart maneuver is wildly overestimating the capabilities of the time especially when creating smaller armies out of a big army was only made by Napolean which is well over 1000 years after this which shows you how the complexity of modern warfare which was so deadly it had to in a city to avoid the enemy just destroying you and everything around you. Just look at Hannibal his attack were so bloody simple it would shock you that he was able to win anything but it just goes to show how war has changed.
Go ask your general's of today how many tactics they took from Muslim generals of 1400 years ago. They are still learning from them today. Sitting back behind a computer is easier to talk. But I am sure that if you were in those situations where you had to face a 40.000 large army waiting for you in forts, behind obstacles, in the middle of a hot desert with sand blowing in your eyes, with minimum resources to live from, you would make it in the history books of the greatest failures of all time. Those generals at that time were masterminds. They not only needed to be physically powerful, but they were mentally strong as steel too. And they also had high IQ's to come up with superior tactics that changed the coarse of history by the will of Allah. Now-a-days you click on a button behind a screen from 3000 miles away and the job gets done by computers and machines. Let's talk about predictability of things.
@@maghribi5371 all these things come into play if the tactic wasn't used even once against your army. If you know what happened to another Persian general who wasn't dumb but still failed, you know that the tactic will probably be used against you. So why don't you just send scouts to possible Arab hiding places? Even if you lived 1500 years back wouldn't you check?
@@abdiabdi3225 completely understand that but then you're fighting Hannibal, you know that he's a great commander and you aren't dumb so just scout ahead.
@@gertrudasozinkas4950 The fact that the Persians fell in this trap proves how genuine the tactic and scenario created by the Muslims during that battle was. You can't judge until you are in an exact situation suffering an equal stress and fear of loss. You know emotions play a key role in how someone decides right? After weeks of waiting for a chance to be victorious, plus the circumstances during which you are clashing with your enemies with death looking you in the eyes, you don't have the time to sit back and ponder on all previous mistakes, especially when they didn't occur many times. The thing is they didn't expect the Muslims to come with such a tactic especially when the Persians were sure of their manpower and tactic. It's the same as how an ambush works. You march with your warriors into a valley and suddenly get surrounded and attacked from all hidden sides. But, there are tactics to prevent such situations though. For example, the battle of Uhud, in which the Messenger of Allah Salallahu 'Alaihi Wassallam ordered a few archers to stand on a hill to prevent the enemy to go around the mountain and attack from the back. He Salallahu 'Alaihi Wassallam ordered them to not come down even if birds are picking on their dead bodies. But after the enemy retreaded some of the archers came down to collect the spoils of war. So Khalid Ibn Al Walid (Radyallahu' Anh) who at that time wasn't a Muslim yet, he saw this happening and ordered his cavalry to go around the hill and attack the Muslims from the back. So this is a genuine deffence tactic that can prevent attacks from the back if followed correctly.
@Touqueer Rizvi While Umar (RA) , destroyed an entire empire :) .. It is truly regrettable for those who claim to be a Muslim and hate Omar bin Al-Khattab
@Touqueer Rizvi This is dictated by Persian hatred and not Islam .. had it not been for Umar ibn al-Khattab, the land of Persia would not have known Islam .. and no hypocrite could fight in the way of God .. All the Arab Mujahideen of the Companions went out for this goal, if you a Muslim you must to thank Omar and be grateful for him, and you have to seriously review your thoughts
@Touqueer Rizvi And in order to make sure that it was a Persian knot, all the nations accepted the Muslims and the Companions who came to them ... except for the Persians :)
@Touqueer Rizvi This is the Persian hatred that I intended from the beginning..it is not the leader's role to be on the battlefield, this happens all the time..and Khalid bin Al-Walid was doing everything as it should ... But in reality Omar did not destroy anything but rather built Persia, but they They want to destroy everything .. God is better than fire :)
So glad you did this ! I couldn’t believe the Persians, with all their might and many nations could be beaten by the Arabic forces, yet it seems that the final battle was here at Navahand. There are no videos about this. Thank you K&G!
@13:24 Don't forget Qa'Qa ibn Amr al-Tamimi - one of the underrated military generals. The first Caliph Abubakr once remarked about him: "Qa'Qa is equal to a thousand soldiers." There is even an Arab TV Series in his name.
@سعيد صالح o cmon khalid conquered entire Arabian peninsula once again after the rebellion of the murtads and Iraq only in a year and half then he was sent to the Byzantine front. After he left for the Levant, the Muslims were apprehensive to fight the persians since khalid ra was not around. So Umar ra had to order the armies to retreat and leave the conquered lands for a year or two after a long pause Saad bin waqqas ra was sent to reconquer the areas that khalid ra has already conquered. Regarding hand to hand combat Ali ra was the best in this business no one could ever beat him period. He killed Amr ibn Abd ud whom the sahabas were afraid in combating at the battle of trench. When Holy Prophet saww called the sahabas to fight against Amr every time it was Ali ra to respond no doubt he was the bravest of them all. But regarding military genius no one can come closer to the might and genius of Khalid ra
@سعيد صالح ungrateful who? Bro I'm a Muslim from the Indian subcontinent here we swear upon the name of sahabas ra n Ahle bait ra. The love n devotion we have for them is unprecedented we don't take them as normal humans the amount of love I have for sahaba n Ahle bait is same so the joke is on u
And as we all know, the members of the House of Sasan will continued fruitlessly in the attempt to regain their homeland after taking refuge in Great Tang. Also, what is the thoughts of the others about the Muslims conquest of Sicily? And by that, I mean why it took 70 years for the conquest to finally be completed.
The 1st generation of Muslims were just smarter, hence how they conquer so quickly so fast. Most of their victories were decisive that also has profound and long lasting psychological effects on their opponents. Imagine losing to people who you not only outnumber and are technologically/economically superior to. It makes you think God is genuinely on their side, and it's impossible for a mortal like you to win against that. Hence why many of them just joined Islam to be on the winning side. (and the fact that Byzantine/Sassanid leaders were incompetent's added to that)
@@zuboy4272 pffft. Most people? What? Iranian Arabs only make 2% of the population. The Persiand are the majority ethnicity with big Iranic and Turkic minorities. Only a small bunch of Zoroastriand migrated to India not the entirety of Persis.
@@HassanalBolkiahSoyjak indeed but you must keep in mind that later the Arabs had to face good commanders of the eastern Roman empire . Futhermore the eastern Roman empire had create the theme and the Tagmata system Which help to defend their land against the Arabs an later to go on the offensive .
Even though they lost battles after battles the Sassnids still held dreams of restoring their empire and fought on knowing full well that their chance of victory is slim, you can call it foolish imperial pride but i think its quite remarkable that they still perserved
The caliphate Omer distroyed the Persian empire and brought them to their knees, that's why they (iraniens) still hate him. And they still try to bring their doomed empire back.
@Roble Every Empires fall there is no exception but Iran is Epicenter of Iranian caste Persian Parthian Medes who dominated the region for a long time the border between Iran and Iraq Is significant while in Iran talking IE lang and at Iraq Arabic lang unlike Iraq . Iran never ruled by Ottoman Turks for region stability because Iran is Strong natiom
Always a pleasure to watch your videos, the amount of work that goes into them must be tremendous. Doing a famous or interesting battle is tough enough, but going through an entire period of history and maintaining quality throughout shows outstanding devotion to your work. It is much appreciated. Having said that, I do sense sometimes a bit of bias, for example, in the episode about the siege of Damascus 634AD.
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@kings and generals great so see you guys covering this stuff, excellent video as always
What mods do you use in these videos??
Kings and Generals. Who are the Sassanids?
@@damarquisjennings2755 iranians
“We’ve been tricked, we’ve been backstabbed, and we’ve been quite possibly bamboozled”. - Sassanid army, after the false retreat.
From Mongols to Normans... Feigned retreat has literally been forging history again and again
Turks and Arabs are famous for this approach and so are the Mongols. No wonder they ruled Persia for centuries.
@@HimanshuSingh-lk2my my brother, you are wrong to assume that. Persians influenced all three profoundly while themselves remaining culturally intact
@@rustamsahabuddin5727 agreed. Even in India they followed Persian architecture
@@rustamsahabuddin5727 how the Persians were remaind intact while their religion is Islam and their language is being written by Arabic alphabet??
This is the exact soothing that my stressed self preparing for university history course needed. Thank you Kings and Generals.
Same here. I'm doing my thesis work for my MS degree. And this was the needed relaxation
Good Luck to both of you
If you're an undergrad Adam then you really don't need to stress all that much. To say that undergrad history courses are a joke is an understatement. They don't go into detail on anything, just a general overview of major events and personalities. We spent maybe three hours on the entirety of the Roman era, for example, all the way from the beginning of the Republic to the end of the Empire. We never even went over the Muslim-Sassanid conflicts either, just a general overview of Muhammad's beginnings and his eventual conquest of the Arabian peninsula.
@@ericharrison7518 i'm studying a history of capitalism course and we've got comparative analyses of kocka, applebee, slobodian or brook, as well as the construction of the notion of capitalism throughout asia, india, europe and africa, as well as myriad of possible causes of its development. Although normally I find history as a hobby very intuitive and perhaps easy, studying it in this perspective I find really challenging. However, what I find the most difficult on the course is writing a long paper on the selected segment of the topic, on which I'm brooding right now. But I enjoy it very much.
@@gerardb5220 No, not at all! I am writing thesis on a completely different topic and field of study, this was the distraction and relaxation I needed.
It's fascinating to see Tulayha, who suffered defeats at the hands of the brilliant Khalid ibn al-Walid use Khalid's own style of warfare against the Persians
Khalid himself was once and enemy of Islam and fought against the prophet.
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What's more fascinating is that these former enemies of Islam fought for Islam with greater fervour than they did against it.
Such displays of faith and devotion are pretty rare in history.
@@RexGalilae thats because they really beleived in the message of the prophet
Khalid himself destroyed the Muslims in Auhud and nearly wiped out Islam from history, I don’t know how he got this Great War mind and such brilliance despite being cut out from warfare history and experience of other empires due to the deserts of Arabia.
@@zakariaalami1491 Or very likely because they knew they were given a second chance and couldn't expect another one, so they had to be succesful. Moreover it is not impossible that they were so devoted just to show that they are loyal. Ofcourse there also will be those that are strengthen by the message, but to think that is the most common (or even most) case is dangerous in terms of revisionism.
I like how they named their victory over the "king of kings" as the "victory of victories".
No, they named it Victory of victories because the Sassanids after this battle were not able to stop the advance of the Arabs.
@@MrCAlberto123451 but it was actually a parody mocking the “king of kings”
@@MrCAlberto123451 maybe it goes both ways... arabs at that time did love their poetic ironies
@@samnatt248 it wasn't actually, arabs were unfmiliar with it, and later they adopted the king of kings system though
@@MrCAlberto123451 OP never said they called it that because it was a victory over the "king of kings." They just said that they appreciate the parallel. Your comment could have been informative without your need to be "correct" about something that wasn't claimed.
i really love whenever their frontiers general got stuck and need guidance they always sent letters to Caliph to always confirm before doing anything
@@liamleonard9120 *no!*
Commander: What Role would you like to take?
Qaqa Bin Amr (RA): What I do all the time, the Finishing part..
So true
“The Streamroller”
Thats is important key of the battle
But i got the joke tho
Sorry
Bad english
I've become so addicted to the early expansion of Islam series that I watch the same videos again and again almost every day. Kings and Generals, please do more of them! Your content is priceless, absolutely priceless!
R u a western? Westerns who hate us don't teach westerns about our Islamic history.
@@Onlyme2015 I'm a Muslim, but they're making these videos based on reliable sources and I've never sensed any bias
@@eynar14649 assalamualikum brother are you from Iran
@@khabibnurmagomedov8581 If the Sassanid empire had not existed today, I would say 'Yes' :D I'm from Azerbaijan
@@eynar14649 hmm, I don't know to which country you are referring as sassanid empire, is it Iran or Azerbaijan?
Sorry for not getting your statement 😄
Like Sun Tzu said, deception is perhaps the strongest tactic of all time:
“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.” - The Art of War
all warfare is BASED
Prophet Muhammad -Peace be upon him- said: "War is a trick"
Folĺow islam¬ other paths they will mislead you
@@cewolf78PEACE BE UPON HIM and All and Peace on All PROPHETS of GOD…he didn’t say trick he said war is deception. Same as this quote you imbecile…Learn Arabic before speaking.
@@cewolf78 sallallahu alaihi wasallam
I'm so sad there is no more of my man, Khalid al-Wallid. That guy was always amazing to learn about.
@Samir Dizco OK cool for them I guess. I never said anything about the mortality of his actions. Only he's interessting to learn about. Ceasar commited genocide in gaul, doesn't mean I don't wanna learn history about him.
@@nathanaelsallhageriksson1719 are you interested in his biographies or something?
@@Muslimfighter952 I am interested in history in general. Just, any history. At all.
@@nathanaelsallhageriksson1719 sure....
@@Muslimfighter952 you don't have to believe me. I don't care if you do.
Truly, all the Sahaba are amazing. They not just change the history of their tribes and society, but they also change the history of the world
Sahabas are trained by our beloved prohet PBUH. They were undoubtedly true Islamic persons after Our beloved prohet Muhammad PBUH.
We pray to Allah to give us the right direction of Islam . Irrespective of any firqas , fitnas, etc we are the ummah of beloved prohet Muhammad PBUH.
Takbir
@@h..s6972 Allah Hu Akbar
@@h..s6972 allah akbar
@Matthew Goth loser
I finished the muslim conquests videos yesterday and I was dying to know the rest of the history! Thank you!
Please study quran and accept Islam before u die brother
@@rixgamer5748 😂😂😂
I study Quran and then i left islam
Flat earth and stars are small lamps
@@uberjoe-08
Stop lying please
@@uberjoe-08 LMAO STOP LYIN POORSIAN , you don't understand arabic
@@uberjoe-08 lol the fact u mentioned "flat earth" tells alot of what u studied m8 u can Lie to us and wonder we wont notice we dont give 2 shits about liers like u. I study Quran, medicine and Astrology every single day m8. Alhamdullilah As i go through The Quran and learn new things through my studies and research my belief In Islam Grows strong. As Allah Has mentioned in the Quran that He has Given us signs, only those who think can see them, understand them. But those who dont Are distracted away from the truth choice is urs. U wanna see the truth or just live in lies. Wont effect Allah in any matter whether u believe in Him or not. Its for our own betterment.
Can't help playing an armchair general and wonder why so many generals fell for the same tactic of feint retreat and ambush. Reconnaissance is probably an underrated aspect of war.
They might have done some scouting ahead in front of them and follow the Muslim army but didn't expect them to be in that ridge, since it is considered in their side and the muslims probably sneaked there at night.
Many reasons often different from one instance to the next. Overall though advanced battlefield maneouvers are very difficult and require a well disciplined core of veteran soldiers. We talk about the times it worked because it leads to these stunning victories that reshape history but we don't talk about the thousands of times it failed. A feigned retreat can very quickly turn into a real retreat and looks like one from an observers perspective so many attempts never even get recognized as what they were. Also the general knowledge of tactics and strategy that we enjoy simply didn't exist back then, they relied mostly on the experience of veterans to teach young leaders and the efficacy of this varies wildly. Lastly as you pointed out Reconnaissance was generally underrated. Rome was famously bad at scouting for several centuries as their noble born cavalry felt that scouting missions were beneath their status.
Remember messages and scouting reports had to brought manually back to the commanders and by the time they arrived there was a good chance the enemy had moved again. Communications weren't always anywhere near as fast as they are now.
A feigned retreat proposes a wager to enemy. Put yourself in the shoes of the Persians,they were getting grinded for like ages by the Caliphate. They were on defensive and destabilised. They needed something to turn the tables, something like a decisive victory. See how hard it would to leave alone enemy unscathed which could have been destroyed? Even if you consider the risks of a Feigned retreat,the temptation of the possibility of great victory can overwhelm you .It has happened many times in history a Victory fell short of being decisive because of caution. These are the moments which differentiate a good General from a Great one.
@@gerardb5220 so all the inhabitants of the town are all been executed? For what reason? If they killed civilians indiscriminately in the name of their god, then no one will follow their religion and they wouldn't be able to hold these lands as there will be rebellions everywhere.
The Sassanids were grasping their dreams of restoring the Achaemenid Empire until Heraclius rallied the Eastern Romans and restored the pre-war borders. Then everything went downward spiral from there, starting with palace intrigue, civil war and then the Arab invasion. So close to touching the stars but they fell and instead became conquered. Great series K&G, as always awesome material!
@Metallus Zorax Khosrow II was not entirely capable, afterall he was the one that ended up losing to the Romans and basically destroying the empire, he also made some foolish decisions like annexing the lakhmids etc.
they restablished achaemenid borders untill general shahrvaraz betrayed khosrow and joined heraclius because of a fake letter from khosrow
khosrow parviz's greatest mistake was marrying a byzantine woman, later his son from byzantine mother killed him
and kavadh himself didn't live long
@@immortal5563 harvaght harja emperaturi az iran soqut karde ya bega rafte hamishe paye ye khianat kar vasat bude nemidunam in che serie.hamishe in mardom amade khianat kardanan
@@Cataphracts_History
الانم همینطوریه دوباره ایران داره امپراطوری میشه ولی یه سری خیانت کار وطن فروش میگن ایران در عراق و سوریه و لبنان و یمن چی کار میکنه
@@wedding.shomal8304 منم الان میگم ایران تو عراق چه غلطی میکنه حالا شما ناسیونالیستای امپریالیست مهم نیست چی بگید
Nahavand is still a city in Iran, I was shocked when I saw the thumnail. Thanks for sharing history from every part of the world🙌🏻
This might have been my favorite episode you've ever done. Firstly because I just didn't know how it would end based solely on the existence of modern countries. Both Arabs and Iranians exist in the Middle East today.
Second, the practicality of everyone involved. Nobody in the battle was foolhardy or brash. Everything cold and calculated. Even when the Sassanids fell for the bait, they did so incredibly carefully and even had the correct contingent plan to counter the trap.
So cool! I was seriously out of breathe and excited to see how this would end. Simply bravo for this episode, guys!
Well I did, since Iran is Muslim after all.
Kings and Generals is forcing me to take History as a career.
@@gogodaal7273 man history makes me feel frustrated a lot. I will take science instead.
Your name is awesome sir.
Same here.. My Friends now consider me a historian..
no. just take business or engineering. or agriculture might help your career
@@syahrulfauzi6344 engineering is love
I see some complaining about the ads, to get such content with high quality, good narrator and greatly detailed history +Nice animations for free is unbelievable, even if they put 10 ads, I won't skip any. They deserve it
Make sure to swallow
Hormuzan lost 5-6 battles but still kept a general. I want a boss like that who will accept my failures like that
sassanids had no commanders to command large armies as most thier generals were killed in prevoius battles against caliphate
@@ChillScare_ChroniclesIt explains nothing. Nothing in all of this section of history makes any sense to me. Arabs were JACKALS. Nobodies who had NEVER been anything. Suddenly they defeated PERSIANS like it was nothing. With armies of laughable size. It makes no sense. What happened to the world? Justinian's Plague devastated the world and then the following wars left EVERYTHING in ruins? Did the Arabs conquer ruins and wastelands?
The caliphate's generals have cemented themselves in the annals of military history 🔥💪🏼. Almost always outnumbered, yet victorious.
Excellent video as always.
@@gerardb5220 well in any case if they were not outnumbered, they still cemented their military prowess in the annals of military history by conquering so much, so fast. That is no small feat.
@@gerardb5220 i doubt that rich provinces where the reason behind all that zeal and discipline
speaking of numbers, i also doubt that few desert warriors could outnumber large imperial mobilisation, numbers were rarely a direct or an indirect reason for winning wars and battles anyways
even as a non muslim you have to respect those guys and not give silly ( reasons ? ) on why muslims won
What about those expeditions into Makuria
@@gerardb5220 and I agree with you. They are not the best ethical examples (and that applies to any conqueror muslim or not). But the fact of the matter is that the Rashindun Caliphate Army had great generals, and they conquered a vast sum of territory in the span of a few years. That on itself is a great feat of Military History, and that's a real fact. That is all I wanted to say.
I'm tired of the stupid conflict some historians have over the Muslim Conquests, just because they dislike the idea of watching the Romans and Sassanian Armies loose to an "inferior" enemy.
They lost, nothing we can do about it, a new Empire came to dominate. That's human history since our civilizations rose. Empires rise, get their golden age and then fall; or are displaced by another empire.
@@gerardb5220 i'm not guessing, you're doing so, by assuming that they wanted rich pronvinces and plunder, look, i'm muslim, i understand their moral and their motives more than yours, are we going to talk about japenese history by "Not" using japenese sources ? if you find other sources that bring contradictory narrative, we're all ears :)
There’s so much glory in last stand battles over major army clashes. Thank Kings 👍
You might have missed one great aspect of the victory on the muslim side, its Omar bin al Khattab, one of the greatest leaders of the Islamic history, humble and extremely intelligent powerful leader who conquered Persia and Egypt, and defeated the romans and still live in his old humble house made of mud.
Muslims then took decisions in groups, even prophet Mohammad was ordered in Quraan to take his decisions in groups, small councils includes the most intelligent men of the time, favoriting no one, no family member nor friend.
It's a shame islam is so evil, if only they were able to spread somethign worthwhile.
@@muazthunder Then it's clear that you know nothing about islam. the religion when raping children and prisoners is encouraged, where minorities are persecuted, critics, apostates, homosexuals, adulterers and heretics are murdered.
the religion who's "prophet" molested and raped children, stole, murdered, tortured, mutilated and enslaved people.
Which of those isn't evil?
@@HannarrMontannarr yea yea keep saying that non sense argument yet Muslim grow rapidly now even in the land where islamophobic were majority.. in fact Indonesia has 270 million population and 87% of them were muslim.. yet we lived in peace and tolerance😌
@أحمد عبد العزيز Because it's True.
@@HannarrMontannarr We are proud of our religion..But the question is are you proud of your..?
Umar Al Khattab was such a brilliant administrator and leader that he deserves his own video.
No doubt
@@MikaelGymBro As i can see Envyness , jealousy , covetousness , discontent , spite and grudge on your personality and character even if that courageous man was coward why we would use to travel 700miles from Medina to jerusalem & Damascus with a single camel and freed servant and take highly risks without any entourage and security protocol or personal safety guards for various protection and even Lord Ali a.s advises that he should refrain and prevent to led the islamic forces of Qadsiyya when he was in a highly invocation and solicination but he suggest him to stay at medina just because if he got absence from title of caliph the arabs will revolt and rebels betrays against the governance as caliphate collapse but still he used to spend life in simplicity as gandhi says ;
Abu Bakar and Umer a.s used to be the stewards of whole vast undefeatable imperialism and still prefer to live in austerity as he extend that even if someone like Umer born in india , every single issue , disputes and problems will be solved as an representative of romans came to medina and highly shocked after seeing poverty surrounding of capital of world soul supreme power and extremely shocked after seeing Umer ibn al khattab used to sleep on floor as he says ;
"If a men doesn't be able to learn from alliance he absolutely learns greatness from enemies as our ruler made corruptions and are cruel and ruthless still they are in longing to have curators and custodians besides them but then there's you Umer who spread justice but still be not afraid of world" people like you only envy or read greatness with nasty eyes of radicalism and hostile towards those whose superiority are above then starry heavens , poor you bedouin! As you are trying to show your irrelevant negligible "shitis" deism , even the truth has been accepted by the world as he would coward why should the makkah afraid of him and prophet gave him title of ethical and he was the men that islam got highly respect with while he was the only men to openly announce his migrations As he says ; "the one who want his wife to be an widow , his mother and offspring laments come behind the mountain" as the enemies of islam even romans and persian afraid of him
@@addictedtragedy2788
Your two page bullshit comment doesn't deserve to be read.
I say it short:
You say Umar was a brave and a great warrior who did conquer bla bla bla.... But your own books and sources say that he scaped from all battles during Prophet era. If you are son of your father bring even one source from your own book to prove that Umar have killed even one enemy of Islam!
@@addictedtragedy2788
His bravery was beating women until he used to get tired
@@MikaelGymBro Umar Ibn Al Khattab's reign was the most stable and peaceful time in the history of Islamic rule. It was also the time the armies of Islam defeated and crushed two world superpowers into the dust. The reason behind his success was his fair and just treatment of his people and his prolific governance and administration. He was kind to his people and strict with his governors. He lived a stoic life and made sure that people in his government avoided materialism and excess wealth. Islam would never have been powerful if it didn't have a ruler like Umar I.
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i m a muslim by birth and i studied the history of muslims but yur channel is masterpiece it made us being in scene!!!!!!!!!!! your creativity never ceases to amaze me cant wait for new episodes thank you so much for your Scientific Integrity جزاك الله خيرا from morooco
I am an engineer but my love for history has led me to your channel, visualizing the battlefield was not more interesting than this
Well i'm an accountant
Same :)
Like every indian/banladeshi ever..
Start your introduction mentioning your job:
I am a captain but i would like to order a pizza..
I am an architect but i would like to cross the road...
@@asmrnaturecat984 you should be awarded for spending so much time for creative commenting, respect!!!
14:11 Subhanallah. Even In battle field they didn't forget to Pray the noon prayer.
"Dominance is only for the Sake of ALLAH Alone."
Greetings from KSA
So proud of these brave Caliphs and Generals who was born and raised in my land 🇸🇦❤️
@Samir Dizco هذا مسلم سعودي يفتخر بأرض الحرمين .. ماشأنك أنت يا أحمق تنشر الكراهية بين المسلمين؟ شعورك بالنقص وأحقادك السياسية لا تفرغها هنا!
Lol
Not in Saudi autocratic monarchy
@@abulahab2748 Abu Lahab was the prophet's uncle. Same blood, same family. They both were Hashemites. LOL. Educate yourself, Ajam.
@@impressivemeNon of this is true Tazi.
When I respect the content creator I watch the adds. I watch your adds.
In K&G videos about other Empires: hmm Wonder which Empire will win ?
Muslim expansion vid: Yeah this is gonna be another steamroll isn’t it ?
@Jaly Arkamani They will steamroll the moon if they had to. Then why don't we see a Rashidun flag on the moon?
@@eqbal321a That's true, but this thread is all one giant hyperbole by this point
@@jevinliu4658 They actually might have, indirectly. The Islamic Golden age ushered such development, like the concept of Algorithms and Algebra, that actually made it possible to reach the moon lol.
Which will be stopped after conquering sindh.
@@zainwaseem5507 didn't that was already invented but the Arabs translated Greeks, indian and Chinese manuals into arabic which later spread to Europe?
When God is with you. You can win against all odds
United Arabs can defied separate Sassanids
@@iranshahrpower238 United sassanids were badly defeated by Arabs
Just like how god (Allah) helped people of Baghdad against Mongols? :))
Very intensive, it's truly the greatest battle of the Sassanid-Muslim War since al-Qadisiyyah, and also one of the most awesome episode among Kings and Generals' videos.
For each time the Sassanid Persian army was so close to victory, the Arabs always turned the table ! Both sides performed the incredible leadership and prowess in battle.
Persian scout: I have good news.
Persian army: tell us!
Persian scout: they didn’t send khalid Ibn Al Walid.
Love those early Muslim Conquest, Thank you KnG!
they were the "arab muslims" dude
I also love learning about all of the vibrant ancient cultures that were annihilated by Islam.
@@carltonbauheimer would you prefer justice and righteousness or stone statues??
@Mehmat BloodÀXE
rashideen caliphs are arabs from arabia...yes they are muslims in religion but arabs in race ...
i know that you know that very well ...but it is the "jealousy" :))
@@carltonbauheimer The very same ancient cultures that came to be through the annihilation of other cultures? Why don't I see people like you on videos about roman conquests? Or is it only bad when a group of people you don't like do it?
Thanks King and generals for such a great video and explaining the battle in detail.
This war was the definition of winning the battle, but losing the war for Persians.
I'm so early, Persians were conquering Median Empire.
Medians*
Medes not Persians
Same thing bro
@@truthissacred different peoples
@@truthissacred wtf
Khalid "Never lost a battle" ibn el walid
Bayan man chkopistan
So true
@@youceftoun6300 هيه و الله كيفاه فقتلي ههه
I'm pretty sure Tulayha learnt his tactics from Khalid after he was defeated by him. The feigned crescent retreat followed by total envelopment was Khalid's favorite style of fighting battles
فهمنا يا حبيبي خلص بقى. بطلو عقدة النقص هذه
This channel explain war tactic better than most war documentary film i've ever saw from TV program
14:10 A minor inconsistency: the muslim noon prayer by definition starts after the sun was on the highest point (zenith). Consequently the sun can't be on the highest point after the noon prayer.
However, great video as always! This is one of the best series I have ever watched, keep it up!
Your videos are beyond amazing... this is my own people's history presented way better than what I was given at school... thank you 🙏🏼
هل فخور بن مسليمة الكذاب، ابو لهب، ابو جهل، عبدالله بن سلول، الوليد بن مغيرة، وهند بن عتبة ااي قتلت عم النبي عليه السلام؟ ترا هذول كانوا ايضا اجدادك يا اخ ااعرب.
@@Onlyme2015 للتوضيح، كل ما قلته أن هذه القناة تطرح التاريخ الإسلامي بشكل رائع وأفضل مما تعلمناه في مدارسنا، لا أرى العلاقة بين تعليقك وتعليقي أخي الفاضل
@@Onlyme2015 هل انت فخور بهرمزان
Nineveh, Al-Quasiddiyah, and Nahavand turned the Sassanid empire from a superpower into dust. There were other battles in-between, but those three were decisive. A plague, civil wars, and the breakaway of the eastern provinces didn't help.
And then what was Pannah Khusrow and Yaquv Layth? Or Abu Tahir Gennavei? It didnt Turn into dust, the Monarchies are proof for that
Sassanids and Romans: *Exists*
Muslims: *Hippity Hoppity you are now my proprety*
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The funniest is that it shocked them because they saw arabs a joke
@@achimachi5519 ❤ I love You Bro From Iran
We never married A baby
@@achimachi5519 😂😂😂
2:40
Both the cities of Kufah and Basrah became well-established and highly important cities for the future of Islam, for it was there that the most skillful of literary scholars gathered and collected knowledge about the Quran and hadiths for the learning of future generations
It had to happen ..arabs wanted to take islam into heartland of iranian culture...Iranians already had better...written religion...they had to make islam bit modern...codified...
@@jagatdave The hell are you talking about lmao?
@@themercifulguard3971 the truth which arabs do not want to hear...peace to Arabia.. peace to iran...but let's accept it...iran is the true leader of Islamic world..so called Persia..
@@jagatdave you are so lost ,
When Prophet Muhammad Saw send invitations to Islam the King of Persian tear the paper and before the emissary return the Prophet got the News from Angel Gibrael and The Prophet cursed him may Allah tear his Empire (just because you tear my paper) and the new got after few days that the nephew of Persian King killed his uncle ( Persian King)
And he said how evil are you you take married women that belong to someone else and throw the Persian King from castle
@@knusiqeliku4303 world is huge...get out of the idea of Mohammed said .this .mohammed said that....u need to think big sir...
The Sassanid empire was seriously interesting, I’d love some in depth videos about them
I’m Brazilian, I’d really like you to have Portuguese subtitles in the videos, I love you. Good vídeo
FINALLY AFTER A THOUSAND YEARS IAM WAITING NAHAWAND WAR,
YOU ARE AMAZINGGG KING'S AND GENERAL
how old are you ?!!
Sir Muhammad Iqbal wrote: "If you ask me what is the most important event in the history of Islam, I shall say without any hesitation: “The Conquest of Persia.” The battle of Nehawand gave the Arabs not only a beautiful country, but also an ancient civilization; or, more properly, a people who could make a new civilisation with the Semitic and Aryan material. Our Muslim civilisation is a product of the cross-fertilization of the Semitic and the Aryan ideas. It is a child who inherits the softness and refinement of his Aryan mother, and the sterling character of his Semitic father. But for the conquest of Persia, the civilisation of Islam would have been one-sided. The conquest of Persia gave us what the conquest of Greece gave to the Romans."
It's amazing how an evil ideology like islam can turn what was a relatively sophisticated and refined country like ancient persia and turn it into a backwards shithole like iran.
And it set mankind behind
Bs, Arabs had build more then Persian do in 200 years
@@HannarrMontannarr Surly you are an ignorant dumb , when we talk about Islamic civilization we are not talking about political filthy regimes in 20th century & after that are not Islamic but using the costume of islam to role , we are taking about a centuries of golden ages of Islamic Empires were the principles of islam were applied ( justice , freedom of thinking etc ) that established the first universities in the world , hospitals, libraries were in Baghdad , damascus Tunisia morroco, Spain etc are good examples about that , in fact Islamic world during that time was the world center for sciences and philosophies , medicine & mathematics for centuries that after 1492 exported to europe .
While in Europe during that time ( 700-1450 )people where washing them selves once in life according to church instructions , & if a man had a severe headache they were thinking that the evil is living in his head & people were believing that the solar eclipse is caused by monster who ate the sun , while Muslims were precisely calculated the earth circumflex and created Algebraic calculations , and were having a great astronomical and geographical sciences that days .
You laterally need to read more .. dumb .
@@HannarrMontannarr aaaaaand you’re here again with a lot of bias against Islam
Just Watched Omer Series. they covered a lot of these events in it with the characters of these notable general and Caliph Omer's Biography
Where did you find it?
One minute silence for persians ,when the caliph is saying we don't want to go further but persians are like come let's take rest of the empire. Btw nice efforts put by kings and generals.
also a minute of silence for umar ibn khattab, when he was stabbed to death by pirooz nahavandi as act of revenge
@@immortal5563 He got shaheed, the highest rank. Silence for you i guess.
@@immortal5563
Yes such a proudful moment, all they could do 😂
@@baha3alshamari152 Due credit goes to them as well as a superpower but also, Umar R.A. didn't want to expand the empire more. It is extremely difficult to manage one specially back then. But, I would say they were only powerful till 1000, after then it is all downhill and getting slapped by turks.
@Amr Mماهم قصد توهین به عقاید کسی نداریم افغان ها و تاجیکها هم برادران و هم تبار ما هستن
ما که اسلام آوردیم دیگه نمیدونم جون ما چی میخواین؟ خیلی ببخشید که نتونستیم براتون بردگی کنیم ؟ طرف داره با افتخار میگه به اسم دین خدا شهراتونو آتیش زدیم زن و بچه هاتونو اسیر گرفتیم و مرداتونو گردن زدیم من بیام قربون صدقش برم ؟ کدوم نژاد پرستی ؟ ولله که آتش پرستی به صدتا داعشی شرف داره! بگذریم که آتش مثل کعبه توی اسلام نماد مقدسیه و در اصل خدای یکتا پرستش میشه. بگذریم که هرکسی به ما میگه آتش پرست قرآن رو هم نخونده چون در قرآن مجید از زرتشتیها به عنوان اهل کتاب یاد شده. من افتخار میکنم که آتش پرستم
Oh I’m all here for last stands
Awesome video. Love the early Muslim conquest video's. I would love to see more soon. But I also want to see more video's on the Imjin War too. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.
The immortals sassanids troops finally found out that they are not
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dude "khaled" literally means immortal in the Arabic language 😂😂😂
@@khaledmahmoud6461
Your name is khaled, that's mean you are immortal!!
@@adhityoprathamaadji2393
Astaghfirullah
@@adhityoprathamaadji2393 Immortal meaning he never lost battles in his life and that itself is a miracle but eventually when the time came he died in bed.
This made me realize how countless heroes of Islam have sacrificed their dear life and have endured in order for Islam to emerge victorious and become a major religion in countries like Egypt, Iran, Iraq and so on. Had it not been done we who are enjoying their fruits of labour would have been undergoing oppression and injustice. MAY ALLAH GRANT THEM ALL JANNAH ❤
Lol and look how they turned out
@@jackshan501 explain more pls
Thats why u should keep ur daily 5 prayers.
@@Onlyme2015like 90% of Muslims are poor as fuk now, so yeah u guys doing great 😂
@@HhrirheYes, it is true, God made this world just a test and a trial, simply because when will you die? You do not know, we are only honored guests in this life.. Omar bin Al-Khattab, which you hear about, and our Messenger Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, used to tie their stomachs with stones out of extreme hunger.. You will ask and say why the Messenger did not ask God for money and food because, quite simply, his concern was to send the message. He was entrusted with it by God, which is Islam, and he was thinking about (Paradise).
I'm gonna say it: this is the best history channel on TH-cam.
ترا فيها اخطاء ياحبيبي
@@noraha8181 مش اخطاء.لكن هو يتبع المصادر الاوروبية مش العربية .لهذا فيه اختلاف
@@mahdimehdi445 الا فيه اخطاء مثل حديث عمر الذي يقول ليت بيننا وبين فارس جبل من نار هذا حديث ضعيف جدا ولا يؤخذ به وهو من المصادر الاسلامية مع ذلك القناة هذي حاطته بالبداية
@@noraha8181 اه.حسبتك على المعركة
انتم يالعراكيين لستم عرب لا تتلصقون فينا ، مالنا علاقه فيكم
I feel like a child waiting for the next episode of my favorite show to air to I love the Islamic expansion series I hope it never ends love this channel god bless Kings and General’s channel nice job.💪👍
Yet another fascinating video about the history of the Middle East and the early Muslim conquests! Awesome!
A slight correction: the two advisers of the Caliph Omar, i.e. Ali and Uthman were both sons-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad.
@@thepr1ntgnome430
Son in law means the husband of the daughter , brother in law means the husband of the sister , etc
@@thepr1ntgnome430 That's the Shias bullshit. The Prophet was their biological father. So Uthman is his son in law.
Umar is a very logical man. Albeit his decisions were sometimes controversial (e.g. Khalid recalled from military duty), it's always based on logic that unstopable military machine like him might have gained fanatic supporters unintentionally (khalid wasn't known as political man unlike Mu'awiyah ibn Abi Sufyan) if let loose for too long despite his contributions for Islam. That decision also opening up for another officers to shine. Truly, Islamic government was at its peak military and administration under Umar ibn Khatthab Radiyallahu 'Anhu.
Akhi we love Khalid radiAllahu3anhu but Khalid was only removed not because of hatred or envy as some western orientalist try to portray umar RA but it was because umar wanted to stop the rumors of Muslims wining battle after battle because of Khalid…when victory is only from Allah, but Khalid was just a means Allah used to grant victory to Islam and the muslims( rAnhum ajma3een) that’s the reason why its mentioned in our books of Hadith/fiqh- seerahtul sahaba and kutub Al jihad from mass transmitters. Western academia try’s to portray some sahaba especially umar as bad because a lot of Shia are in those institutions…They have this deep hatred that the blessed companions spread Islam and therefore deviated from the teachings of prophet Muhammad Alayhisalatuwasalam which is complete BS. JazakAllahukhayran just wanted to clarify
I agree @@Prayformetobeagoodmuslim
The strategy of this battle and every step is just a masterpiece. The 2nd half of it involving the trap could not have been possible without the 1st two failed human waves which made the Persians actually fall for the trap, and unable to consider the possibility Muslims could flip the table around (which they ended up doing). Even on the brink of losing and the odds against em, the Muslims still managed to turn it around at the last second for a decisive victory. No doubt it had a huge psychological effect throughout the persian empire that God was really on the side of the Muslims.
Persian
Persians were also powerful you guys made an empire who controlled 42% of the people in Achaemenid Persian empire and also Sassanids Persians under shapur the great and khorasaw and well you guys are the only one who defeated the ummayds once and for all love to your people from Saudi Arabian wish we can achieve peace one day 🇸🇦❤️🇮🇷
@@adhamabulhassan6059
Without arab abbasid support they would never able to defeat umayyad
@@gerardb5220 The Muslim army were outnumbered by 2 to 1 far away from supply attacking a well built defence. By now Sassanian had exhausted themselves with constant war against the Romans and infighting.
This is all based on Arab sources my friend
@@soroushtorabi98 so most of roman battle based on their own accounts
It is always sad when a great empire breaks up or is conquered. They had the world in their hands and yet fell like any other.
Well if it helps, keep in mind that an empire is the private property of the archfigure of a rich family, thus while this was very sad for the House of Sassan (the ruling family) and their Knights, it meant little difference to the commonfolk as they still had to pay rent for land every harvest. Meet the new boss, same as or worse than the old boss.
They kinda paid for their arrogance towards the Arabs and needless aggression towards the Romans tho. All they and their overly ambitious kings brought to Middle East was instability and needless destruction. Suddenly declare war on Rome, sack a whole lot of cities in the Levant, crumble when the Romans caught a whiff of what was happening and watch Ctesiphon get sacked for the umpteenth time lol.
Their destruction doesn't sadden me. It brought centuries of much needed peace, prosperity, cultural and scientific growth back to the region.
@@DieNibelungenliad Yes and no. Like, I agree with your point but at the defeat of Sassanids as well as Byzantines also spread the Islam around the whole area there. Which is one of the greatest tragedies that ever happened, coz the today's states there still suffer because of it.
It's only natural. One great Empire falls and another takes its place and then the same thing will happen to the next empire.
@@TheHed94 today's states are not suffering because of islam ..but because of zionism ,western intervention and disgusting leaders /politicians (most of whom are supported by the west )
Sooo they finally deafted them by using "The Khalid Maneuver"
So this is the Persian equivalent of Mohacs for Hungary. The point where they can no longer exert their power outward
@@mastermindd so as we just changed religion if you call an Iranian an arab(except the samis) you are a dead person
@@mastermindd arab change persian religion sure but persian changed arab culture
@@nadershah5196 There is some truth to that. Called an Iranian an Arab once by accident. The bastard nearly stabbed me ;)
@@The_Daily_Tomato well I'm so sorry for my countryman bad behavior
@@mastermindd yes christianity is your national identity huh :D lol
Heroes of the conquest!! May next generation do the same.
What a carnage it would be! And what an adept strategic machination from the side of the Arab generals! Once again, I was soaked from the video's topic!
You refer to Ali as Muhammad's son in law, but don't mention that Uthman himself was also Muhammad's son in law, twice over. He married two of Muhammad's daughters but they are less famous than Fatimah. Apparently Sunnis and Shi'ites disagree on whether Muhammad's other daughters were biologically his, or from Khadija's previous marriage. This may be why Ali is presented as "the son in law" despite not being the only one to hold that distinction.
Technically, all the four caliph is have connection and become family to Prophet Muhammad PBUH. Abu Bakar and Umar is father in law of prophet while Uthman and Ali is the son in law of prophet
Lmaooo shias aren't even considered Muslims by a lot of mainstream sunni muslims, so their opinion doesn't really matter lol.
@@Ahadun_ahd Are you saying the Shi'ites opinion doesn't really matter? Their position is not unreasonable. Khadija was a widow and an older woman. It makes sense she would have children from the previous marriage and that she would be too old to have over four children with Muhammad.
@@alvirarahman2690 I'm not saying it's impossible. It's the Shi'ite belief, to my understanding. I'm just saying it's plausible
@Yunus - Jonah 1st of all u got it wrong. She was older and that's agreed upon but The Prophet was 25 whilst Khadijah was around 5 years older, not 15 years older as laymen tend to believe.
Sassanid? First time I read that name outside of an actual paper book. It's very nice to see a channel that brushes more obscure subjects. These things also shaped world history. In fact, the Sassanian and the Parthian before them had an incredible influence on European (and central Asian history) influencing mounted warfare in what would both become the knightly kingdoms and the steppe people. (notwhistanding their cultural influence, such as a story of a round table with noble warriors led by a lord holding a magical sword, among many other tales...)
persians copied a lot of things from the ancient middle east civilizations
@@MegaBaddog eh!? Isnt Persia a middle eastern civilization?
One of the my favorite battles
@@scourgeofgodattila4366 اشهد ان لا اله الا الله واشهد ان محمد رسول الله / oh Turk don’t lie The Persian Empire was completely conquered by the early Muslim Arabs until the Shah's crown was cut to small pieces
Khalid! The drawn sword of Allah. May Allah reward him and his brave soldiers for us being believers now.. Thank you for shedding light on these great battles. A great effort.
Savages.
very informative. love learning these. I'm inspired throughout the whole playlist featuring the early Islamic expansion, looking forward to exploring more! thank you @kings and Generals.
I love Islamic history and because I'm passionate about it and intrigued so much i decided to learn Arabicand I did, just 2 years ago i did not understand a word in Arabic and now I'm fluent, Islamic history is full of intriguing stories and enlightenment-eras and historic battles, from the early rashidun caliphate into the umayyad caliphate and the Abbasid caliphate and the big empires and the golden age of islamic sciences in andalusia.
Are you iraqi?
@@Darksoil4555 No
ما هي لغتك الاصلية ؟.
Umayyed empire
Abbasid empire
Ottomans empire
Don't forget the Ottoman
kings and generals, this is PRIME top tier content, thank you for this.
We always hear only how Persians got defeated - but considering how long their Empire lasted they were for sure one of the top notch realms ever.
Do not be surprised how the Muslims exterminated one of the greatest empires in the history of the Persian Empire, as the Muslims in this formed a striking force with their new tactics in war and the determination of the desert men, whose physical strength was incomparable to others because they were raised in a harsh environment, namely, the desert that prompted them to master the arts of fighting since childhood and patience. In war, the thing that was not present in its contemporaries, in addition to the moral and spiritual strength that the Prophet Muhammad added to them and the strength of Islamic law that provides them with patience and steadfastness, even if they are few on the battlefield
@@mohamedbenmed8969 OH, I´m for sure not. I very well understand the how and why and the muslim armies have my full respect.
However, there were also other factors in the game.
But I wanted to point our another point in my original post: the Persians are always painted as weak in terms of war and mostly on the loosing side - like the defeats in the Greek-Persian wars or at the hand of Alexander the Great.
We should always remember that even the strongest will fall someday.
@@ronin47-ThorstenFrank You can also see the victories of the Muslims over the great Byzantine Empire ... in the Battle of Yarmouk and in Ajnadin, under the leadership of the Muslim leader Khaled Ibn Al-Walid ... The defeat of two of the most powerful empires in history, the Byzantine and Persian empires against the Muslims was not an ordinary thing. In the causes of defeat
@@ronin47-ThorstenFrank no you are wrong, every one knows how strong the persians are, that is why everyone is proud when they defeat persians, we Arabs still remember a battle one tribe won before Islam against the persians, they probably did not care much about it but it was a pride for that tribe to this day.
@@noraha8181 That´s a question of the point of view. I write this from the narrow western perspective trying to depict Persians in that way. So, "everyone knows" is a bit wrong - it´s a question what kind of education you´ve got.
I did need a lot of books to revise this view and start to appreciate the Persian history.
love the tactics in this video-- unbelievable 'human wave' I must say
Outnumbered, and fighting in the open fields against a better equipped enemy and still crush you're enemy. This is not human, these were people choose by god, agree or disagree. Facts
Just like countless battles in history, `I guess there's over a million battles in history , where the winners were chosen by god.
Was Hannibal a god's chosen? Was Caesar? Was Alexander?
Tactics are the things that matters the most in a battle, not Gods.
@@williammcadoo8685 not like this
@@herbalistathari huh julius caesar did'nt exist when islam arrived , you do know that right ?
@@williammcadoo8685 I meant heracales
You've done a great job by making this part of the history to come forward!
Many names have been carried throughout history in many parts of the world. but for Iran, all these names, either people or cities and provinces, have remained the exact same to this date, every time I see such documentaries especially the ones about Sasanians, I get this very bizarre feeling as if it all just happened "yesterday and very recently" ! I've been to south of Iran many times and seeing all those Sasanian rock reliefs, and most names of the cities being exactly what they were 1500 years ago(and more) makes it strange(even the vocabulary is understandable despite being so old). Thanks for the video, I'd seen many more but not this particular battle on this channel.
The sassainans were horrible. If you want to understand what sassanians really are look at ottoman empire. Useless war machine with no real achievments. The real achievments were under islam. So go and thank god for islam, who brought science and knowledge to persians.
@@ezpz9340 What nonsense you talk🤣🤡 Do you really think that it was the Arabs and Islam who brought science to Iran? Or was Iran the center of science and knowledge in the Abbasid Empire? Almost all the scholars of the Golden Age of Islam were Persians, Islamic architecture was modeled on Persian architecture, Islam religion is largely influenced by Zoroastrian religion. It is not us who should be thankful to you dear friend, you should be thankful to us!! What did you Arabs have? No civilization, no architecture, no science and not even writing! In fact, your example about the Ottoman Empire is more similar to you than to us, the Persians and the Sasanian Empire were great and important civilizations and had many influences, but U were nothing. In my opinion, the Ottomans were even much more civilized than your caliphs.
@@CyrusPersia-wv7zo this sounds like cope
I woke up, launched TH-cam on my phone, saw a new video from my favorite channel, I clicked. The end.
Absolutely incredible that the Persians were taken down in this manner. A 20 year war with the eastern Romans and a civil war literally right before the Muslims arrived put the Sassanids at an all-time low and constituted right place, right time for the Muslims for sure. But still, they were taking on the two superpowers of the western world at the same time and won both. Crazy.
After this battle, the last Persian Shah roamed around from region to region trying to drum up support but was turned down at every point. Irán had devolved into a territory of warlords governing small kingdoms in Kazakhstan, Persia, and Central Asia. The Muslims would pick them off one by one. Yazdegerd eventually fled northeast into Turkic land and further to China. He was killed in Central Asia by a miller, in an armed robbery. So ended the great Persian Sassanid Empire.
It's like saying Madagascar defeated the USA after its war in Vietnam, no friend that's not an excuse at all. Persia had all the better and more resources, technologies, experience etc..., and almost in all the Arab vs Persia battles the Persian army had the higher numbers of army, better weaponry and even the defensive positions which is an advantage by itself, despite the better and shorter supply lines.
Saying Persia was in war, civil war, and plague, all of these events occured on Arabs simultaneously, and in a more deadly percentage, due to the worse and more primitve health system than the one was in Persia or the SPQR, one of the stories that a full muslim army died out of the plague, and the civil war of Ridah killed most of the prophet companions, the civil war in persia was nothing comparing to Ridah wars.
Despite that Arabs were fighting against Roman empire in multiple fronts in the same time too.
So basically they where weaker then ever before. Cool 😎 I mean good to know
All time low ?? The Sassanids were raising 60,000 armies every year lol, there's no excuse for they were swept away.
@@mebarkiimad8999 If you believe the Muslim sources on numbers for these armies, I have a Nigerian prince for you to talk to. The Persians could dream of 60k field armies, but 10k was more realistic. Anyway, yes. The Persians were most definitely at a very low point when the Muslims hit from the south. That’s what a 20 year world war style war, followed immediately by a devastating civil war, decentralization, and plague will do to a country. It was perfect place, perfect time for the Muslims, the way I see it.
Antiquity and the middle age armies when someone does something very predictable:
Wow! That is the most destructive maneuver ever!
2 weeks later in an other battle the same things happen:
Wow! Who could have predicted that!
yeah but you have to realize the communication was abysmal so to hope for any smart maneuver is wildly overestimating the capabilities of the time especially when creating smaller armies out of a big army was only made by Napolean which is well over 1000 years after this which shows you how the complexity of modern warfare which was so deadly it had to in a city to avoid the enemy just destroying you and everything around you. Just look at Hannibal his attack were so bloody simple it would shock you that he was able to win anything but it just goes to show how war has changed.
Go ask your general's of today how many tactics they took from Muslim generals of 1400 years ago. They are still learning from them today. Sitting back behind a computer is easier to talk. But I am sure that if you were in those situations where you had to face a 40.000 large army waiting for you in forts, behind obstacles, in the middle of a hot desert with sand blowing in your eyes, with minimum resources to live from, you would make it in the history books of the greatest failures of all time. Those generals at that time were masterminds. They not only needed to be physically powerful, but they were mentally strong as steel too. And they also had high IQ's to come up with superior tactics that changed the coarse of history by the will of Allah.
Now-a-days you click on a button behind a screen from 3000 miles away and the job gets done by computers and machines. Let's talk about predictability of things.
@@maghribi5371 all these things come into play if the tactic wasn't used even once against your army. If you know what happened to another Persian general who wasn't dumb but still failed, you know that the tactic will probably be used against you. So why don't you just send scouts to possible Arab hiding places? Even if you lived 1500 years back wouldn't you check?
@@abdiabdi3225 completely understand that but then you're fighting Hannibal, you know that he's a great commander and you aren't dumb so just scout ahead.
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The fact that the Persians fell in this trap proves how genuine the tactic and scenario created by the Muslims during that battle was. You can't judge until you are in an exact situation suffering an equal stress and fear of loss. You know emotions play a key role in how someone decides right? After weeks of waiting for a chance to be victorious, plus the circumstances during which you are clashing with your enemies with death looking you in the eyes, you don't have the time to sit back and ponder on all previous mistakes, especially when they didn't occur many times. The thing is they didn't expect the Muslims to come with such a tactic especially when the Persians were sure of their manpower and tactic. It's the same as how an ambush works. You march with your warriors into a valley and suddenly get surrounded and attacked from all hidden sides.
But, there are tactics to prevent such situations though. For example, the battle of Uhud, in which the Messenger of Allah Salallahu 'Alaihi Wassallam ordered a few archers to stand on a hill to prevent the enemy to go around the mountain and attack from the back. He Salallahu 'Alaihi Wassallam ordered them to not come down even if birds are picking on their dead bodies. But after the enemy retreaded some of the archers came down to collect the spoils of war. So Khalid Ibn Al Walid (Radyallahu' Anh) who at that time wasn't a Muslim yet, he saw this happening and ordered his cavalry to go around the hill and attack the Muslims from the back. So this is a genuine deffence tactic that can prevent attacks from the back if followed correctly.
Until now, the Persians remember Khalid bin Al-Walid with a lot of pain :)
@Touqueer Rizvi While Umar (RA) , destroyed an entire empire :) .. It is truly regrettable for those who claim to be a Muslim and hate Omar bin Al-Khattab
@Touqueer Rizvi This is dictated by Persian hatred and not Islam .. had it not been for Umar ibn al-Khattab, the land of Persia would not have known Islam .. and no hypocrite could fight in the way of God .. All the Arab Mujahideen of the Companions went out for this goal, if you a Muslim you must to thank Omar and be grateful for him, and you have to seriously review your thoughts
@Touqueer Rizvi And in order to make sure that it was a Persian knot, all the nations accepted the Muslims and the Companions who came to them ... except for the Persians :)
@Touqueer Rizvi This is the Persian hatred that I intended from the beginning..it is not the leader's role to be on the battlefield, this happens all the time..and Khalid bin Al-Walid was doing everything as it should ... But in reality Omar did not destroy anything but rather built Persia, but they They want to destroy everything .. God is better than fire :)
@Touqueer Rizvi Bro.. you have read Islam since ancient times with a fanatical nationalist view .. Omar was not your enemy at all, the exact opposite
So glad you did this ! I couldn’t believe the Persians, with all their might and many nations could be beaten by the Arabic forces, yet it seems that the final battle was here at Navahand. There are no videos about this. Thank you K&G!
Both at same time even with smaller forces ........ Thats balls but brains too as K& G videos have shown
@@mistergeopolitics4456 what did arabs have? much less that romans and persians, stop finding excuses.
@13:24 Don't forget Qa'Qa ibn Amr al-Tamimi - one of the underrated military generals. The first Caliph Abubakr once remarked about him: "Qa'Qa is equal to a thousand soldiers." There is even an Arab TV Series in his name.
Yup best after Khalid bin walid ra and almost equivalent to Saad bin waqqas ra in my opinion
@سعيد صالح o cmon khalid conquered entire Arabian peninsula once again after the rebellion of the murtads and Iraq only in a year and half then he was sent to the Byzantine front.
After he left for the Levant, the Muslims were apprehensive to fight the persians since khalid ra was not around. So Umar ra had to order the armies to retreat and leave the conquered lands for a year or two after a long pause Saad bin waqqas ra was sent to reconquer the areas that khalid ra has already conquered.
Regarding hand to hand combat Ali ra was the best in this business no one could ever beat him period. He killed Amr ibn Abd ud whom the sahabas were afraid in combating at the battle of trench. When Holy Prophet saww called the sahabas to fight against Amr every time it was Ali ra to respond no doubt he was the bravest of them all.
But regarding military genius no one can come closer to the might and genius of Khalid ra
@سعيد صالح khalid is not only best among the Muslim generals but he is the greatest General of all times period. Don't behave like a Shia rafidha
@سعيد صالح ungrateful who? Bro I'm a Muslim from the Indian subcontinent here we swear upon the name of sahabas ra n Ahle bait ra. The love n devotion we have for them is unprecedented we don't take them as normal humans the amount of love I have for sahaba n Ahle bait is same so the joke is on u
Omar RA said that not Abu bakr.
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And as we all know, the members of the House of Sasan will continued fruitlessly in the attempt to regain their homeland after taking refuge in Great Tang. Also, what is the thoughts of the others about the Muslims conquest of Sicily? And by that, I mean why it took 70 years for the conquest to finally be completed.
The 1st generation of Muslims were just smarter, hence how they conquer so quickly so fast. Most of their victories were decisive that also has profound and long lasting psychological effects on their opponents. Imagine losing to people who you not only outnumber and are technologically/economically superior to. It makes you think God is genuinely on their side, and it's impossible for a mortal like you to win against that. Hence why many of them just joined Islam to be on the winning side. (and the fact that Byzantine/Sassanid leaders were incompetent's added to that)
Most Perisan or (Farsi) people fled to Indian kingdoms after Muslims took over all of Iran , i think there is a story about it
As you can see, they deposed Sa'ad for corruption charges. Despite all the victories he gave them.
When you have a meritocratic system, things work.
@@zuboy4272 pffft. Most people? What? Iranian Arabs only make 2% of the population. The Persiand are the majority ethnicity with big Iranic and Turkic minorities. Only a small bunch of Zoroastriand migrated to India not the entirety of Persis.
@@HassanalBolkiahSoyjak indeed but you must keep in mind that later the Arabs had to face good commanders of the eastern Roman empire . Futhermore the eastern Roman empire had create the theme and the Tagmata system Which help to defend their land against the Arabs an later to go on the offensive .
thanks for the upload, going to watch it!
Loved the video, ohh and would also greatly anticipate video on intra caliphate politics
amazing!!!!
thank you from arabia
kings and genelas...
Thank you Kings and General
9:53 The right translation is: This is an affliction for Islam and a wound that would never heal, this is a day on which the future depends!
The Khalid in thumbnail looks exactly like the character from Omar series from Qatar. Or is it just me. Oh it's Tuleiha in this video
It is
@@greyralph1637 it’s from the Omar series and that’s Khalid
@@al-muwaffaq341 in this video they portrayed it as Tuleiha. Tats what he meant. 👍
nopes i too thought that, many of us did
Is this Omar series the one done my MBC? Or is there another?
Even though they lost battles after battles the Sassnids still held dreams of restoring their empire and fought on knowing full well that their chance of victory is slim, you can call it foolish imperial pride but i think its quite remarkable that they still perserved
theIr chances were much higher then the Muslims .
Omg I can’t believe yall did it!!! Been hoping for someone to make this for 2 years lol
The caliphate Omer distroyed the Persian empire and brought them to their knees, that's why they (iraniens) still hate him. And they still try to bring their doomed empire back.
we even insult him as a joke
@@reza1490 One of your most famous historical figures Omar Khayyam is named after him
We revenge at its time and sent Omar to Hell by Our Hero Pirouz Nahavandi
@@khosrowanoshiravan2979 Your empire fell and Islam still rule although you made your own version of Islam.
@Roble
Every Empires fall there is no exception but Iran is Epicenter of Iranian caste Persian Parthian Medes who dominated the region for a long time the border between Iran and Iraq Is significant while in Iran talking IE lang and at Iraq Arabic lang unlike Iraq . Iran never ruled by Ottoman Turks for region stability because Iran is Strong natiom
"Should we attack them while they cross the bridge, giving us the clear advantage?"
"Naw"
That is why stupid people shouldn't have an opinion
If the persian army were too close to launch an attack the arab army would never cross the bridge
@@aminelak1452 I'd blame it more on arrogance than studity
Damnn I wish I had enough money to be a patreon you guys are the best thank you so much for sharing these quality videos completely for free
We appreciate the though!
Damn that was badass
Everyone who disliked this video is probably still salty about the fall of the Sassanids.
They are Iranian Ex-Muslims or Zartoshtans
@@shamiromrimmoy5964 mabye
Why the fuck this spammer got more likes then my comment
@@tgducsfdifxdt4533, maybe your comment is not funny.
@@k4four615 my comment is funny there is no reason for like his comment
Great documentary. Thank you Kings and Generals Team!
Always a pleasure to watch your videos, the amount of work that goes into them must be tremendous. Doing a famous or interesting battle is tough enough, but going through an entire period of history and maintaining quality throughout shows outstanding devotion to your work. It is much appreciated.
Having said that, I do sense sometimes a bit of bias, for example, in the episode about the siege of Damascus 634AD.
i just love this series i dont want it to end!💕