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Each episode, we break down a key era, event, or figure from Islamic history. From the rise of the first caliphate to the Golden Age of Baghdad to the fall of great empires, we cover it all. Whether you're learning for the first time or filling in the gaps, this is the podcast for you.
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This is the final episode of a four-part series on Al-Andalus, Muslim Iberia. It covers the century after Granada surrendered to the Catholic Monarchs on 2 January 1492, tracing how a negotiated treaty protecting Muslim
When Granada surrendered to Ferdinand and Isabella on 2 January 1492, the terms were negotiated, not imposed. The Capitulations of Granada guaranteed the kingdom's Muslims their religion, their property, their own law, a
Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad was the poet-king of Seville, ruler of one of the richest courts in the Muslim world and one of the finest Arabic poets of his generation. This episode traces how he ended his life a captive in a sm
This episode covers the collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate of Cordoba and the century and a half that followed, when al-Andalus, Muslim-ruled Spain and Portugal, fractured into roughly thirty rival kingdoms known as the t
In 929 CE, Abd al-Rahman III, ruler of Cordoba, took the title of caliph, rejecting the lesser title his family had held for five generations and setting himself against two rival claimants to leadership of the Muslim wo
In 929, Abd al-Rahman III, emir of Cordoba, took the title his ancestors had refused for a hundred and seventy three years: caliph. Seven years later he began building Madinat al-Zahra, a palace city outside Cordoba with
In 711, Tariq ibn Ziyad, a Berber general serving the Umayyad governor Musa ibn Nusayr, crossed the strait separating North Africa from Iberia and defeated the Visigothic king Roderic, opening a peninsula already fractur
In the year 711, a Berber commander named Tariq ibn Ziyad crossed the narrow strait separating North Africa from Iberia and defeated Roderic, the last Visigothic king, in a battle whose exact location history still canno
This is the third and final episode in a series on the Mamluks, the purchased slave-soldiers who ruled Egypt and Syria from 1250 to 1517. It covers the sultanate's final year: the Ottoman-Mamluk war of 1516 to 1517, the
This episode covers the second stretch of the Mamluk Sultanate's story: the 1260 Battle of Ain Jalut, where the Mamluk army under Sultan Qutuz, with the commander Baybars leading the decisive maneuver, handed the Mongol
A Mamluk was, by definition, "one who is owned." From 1250 to 1517, the sultanate of Egypt and Syria was ruled from Cairo by men who began their lives that way: boys of ten to fifteen, bought from slave traders on the Ki
In 2012, the militant group Ansar Dine, backed by al-Qaeda's regional branch, occupied the historic city of Timbuktu in Mali and began enforcing its own version of religious law at gunpoint, banning music, carrying out p
Ahmad Baba al-Timbukti was the most eminent jurist and teacher in Timbuktu, a member of the scholarly Aqit family, at the moment his city stopped belonging to itself. This episode opens with the popular myth of the "Univ
Timbuktu has no founder, no charter, and no founding date. Tradition holds that Tuareg nomads left an older woman, Buktu, in charge of a well around 1100 CE, and a city grew outward from the water she guarded. This episo
This is the fourth and final part of the story of the Abbasid Revolution, and it begins where a triumph is supposed to end. In January of 750, the Abbasid armies broke the last Umayyad field force at the Great Zab, and t
In January of 750, the last Umayyad army broke on the banks of the Great Zab, and ninety years of Umayyad rule began to come apart in a matter of months. Part 3 of The Abbasid Revolution follows what victory actually loo
By the 740s the Umayyad dynasty ruled the largest empire on earth from Damascus, stretching from Spain to the edge of Central Asia. From the outside it looked unbeatable. Underneath, it was tearing itself apart. A reigni
In the year 747 the Umayyad Caliphate was the largest empire on earth, ruled from Damascus, and the province that would bring it down sat two thousand miles away on its eastern edge. That province was Khurasan, and this
Ibn Khaldun was a fourteenth-century scholar, judge, and diplomat from North Africa, born into a family that had once been nobility in Muslim Seville and lost everything when al-Andalus contracted. By his forties he had
Ibn Khaldun was a fourteenth century North African scholar and statesman, born in Tunis in 1332 into an exiled noble family that had once helped lead Seville in Muslim Spain. He spent more than two decades inside the cou
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