Glad you enjoyed it

That's very kind of you to say. Enjoy the lectures in good health!

I’d like to see a lecture about this topic as well!

Agreed

@@HenryAbramsonPhD you are lying falsely. The black moors, protected the Negro Jews. The moors protected the Jews from persecution from Roman. Especially when the first temple was destroyed.b It’s why you have no recollection of the 200 period of what they were doing because it doesn’t pertain your race Ashkenaz

How so?

@@HenryAbramsonPhD I was wondering if you were aware that there was a period of time and can't explain where Jews were treated quite well. Jews actually sought refuge and Catholic Spain from Islamic Spain. Have you ever done a video on this

@@HenryAbramsonPhD I would love to become a paying member of your channel but something's wrong with my Google pay it's not allowing me to do that

It is unclear how Jews welcomed their Muslim conquerors. Their isn't much contemporary evidence. As far as full freedom of religion that is an exaggeration They were certainly given a better deal at least for a while then they were given under the Visigoths at least the way the Visigoths treated them right before they were conquered by Muslims. Jews did have many disabilities placed upon them. Also this so-called golden age of Islam only lasted for a short period of time maybe a couple centuries before Islamic Spain was conquered by North African fanatics. Then many Jews fled to other parts of the Islamic world and many Jews fled to Catholic Spain where for a while Jews were treated with considerable amount of tolerance under Catholic Spanish rule. That too didn't last forever eventually that tolerance ended and Jews were terribly persecuted in Catholic Spain. As far as focusing in on how Jewish elites in Islamic Spain did that doesn't speak to how the masses of Jews were treated at the same time.

Their were disabilities placed on Jews when it came to religion and business

You make it sound like they were given equal rights which they most certainly weren't. Also it's unclear how the Jews reacted to Muslims during the initial invasion.

@@onewildandcrazyguy9213 they may not have been treated tip to tip as equal to the Muslims but they were certainly treated better than the rest of Europe. One of the most famous Jew was Hasdai ibn Shaprut who in textbook definition was the first Jewish foreign minister in the west and there wouldn't be another until Henry Kissinger.

@@freetube5304 those are the elites. But that doesn't describe how the masses were treated. And when you say that they were treated better in Europe it depends on the time and the place. Jews fled Islamic Spain to Catholic Spain because for a while Catholics spain was a Haven for Jews. You're talking about a 1300 year history that takes place over a large expanse of land in the Islamic world and just because you can point to some elites that doesn't tell you how most Jews were treated at most times in most places. And by the way there were two Jewish prime ministers in Italy in the early 20th century. I'm really getting sick and tired of people pointing out to the elites at certain times and certain places as if that's somehow representative of how the masses of Jews were treated. How Jews were treated dependent on the time place and circumstances when you're talking about the Islamic world. No it's not true that Jews were always treated better in Islamic lands than Christian lands.

Mark 12:31. Start with that.

Actually I think this phenomenon exists whether or not Jews live in any given country.

@@HenryAbramsonPhD I really like your nuanced view of this period. the silver age that's a good term I'm going to use. A lot of times people when describing how Jews were treated in Islamic lands will point towards the elites as some sort of an indication of how the masses of Jews were treated. For instance people will take a look at Islamic Spain and point to an astronomer a mathematician a vizier. Throughout history a lot of times marginalized people will have their elites that will do quite well within the dominant culture but that's not an indication of how the masses are doing within that same group. For instance Italy had a Jewish prime minister in 1905 and 1910. Kyrgyzstan had a female prime minister in the 90s. So I think a lot of the critics who are pushing back against the Golden age narrative are doing so by showing a people's history of Jews and Christians living in Islamic Spain rather than focusing in on the elites exclusively as if they are some sort of indication of the treatment of the Jewish and Christian masses. One quick thing a lot of people when they think of the treatment of Jews of Catholic Spain they think of Jews being persecuted. But it wasn't always like that. For a while Catholic Spain was quite tolerant of Jews. It served as a refuge for many of the Jews fleeing Islamic Spain when Islamic Spain was conquered by the almohads. Are you ever going to do a video on how Jews were treated differently in Catholic Spain depending on the time period? Do you disagree with any of my comments.