It's a tragedy that most people in the west know nothing of the historical achievements of the Islamic world. Many people think of the region as backward culturally and scientifically. When I was doing my university studies, the earliest western studies in my specialist area (visual perception) were 200 years old - yet Muslim scholars like Hasan Ibn Al-Haytham (Alhazen) were doing groundbreaking work in the field a 800 years earlier.

13:13 Abd al-Rahman's story is fucking amazing, seriously. Dude had his entire family killed in a real-life Game of Thrones red wedding and barely escaped. Then had to take a *long* journey from Syria, all the way to Spain, while constantly being stalked and harassed by assassins. Along the way his brother was killed, and he spent a long time keeping a low profile in the Sahara desert with Bedouin clans. Eventually he went to Spain, fought a civil war there to take power, and ruled as Emir over Spain over 30 years. I think Flashpoint History made a video about this guy, but seriously, this guy needs a movie about him. It screams historical epic/action movie. Such an incredible story, reads straight out of a movie.

Regarding your question about the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), yes he did have kids, but all of them died during his lifetime a natural death except one daughter named Fatima (may Allah be pleased with her). She died after her father’s death six months later a natural death as well. But Fatima had children from her husband Ali (may Allah be pleased with him). Ali is the cousin of the Prophet. Hope that help 👍

One note, abdelrahman went to eiberia and at the time it was under muslim rule but the map shows the umayyad rule or later abbasid at the time of his escape.

The beginning is misleading. Ali was killed by the Kharajites, enemies of both Muawiyah and Ali. Not by Muawiyah. And Muawiyah certainly didn't consider this a triumph.

The european never seen elephent when the abbasid caliph sent elephent to the frankish they ask what kind of animal is this what you call ? The arab said in arabic we call "Al pheel" this word is the root of the word "Elephent"

Muhammad (PBUH) had 7 children. 3 sons and 4 daughters. All his sons died in infancy. His daughters lived to adulthood but three would die in the prophet's lifetime. The eldest was Zainab. She would die from issues from a previously induced miscarriage caused by the enemies of the prophet. Zainab had a daughter that survived named Umayma who was the eldest grandchild of the prophet. He loved her a lot. She would later go on to marry Ali (the same one who was previously married to her aunt Fatimah) and have two sons with him. However, one would die in battle and the other from natural causes. The second daughter of the prophet was Ruqayyah. She had been married to Uthman Ibn Affan (the third Caliph of Islam who was murdered. Though he became Caliph after Ruqayyah's death). Ruqayyah died from illness on the very same day the Muslims won the Battle of Badr (you've reacted to this battle before). The happy news of the victory was dampened by Ruqayyah's death. Ruqayyah and Uthman had a son together named Abdullah but he died as a child after a rooster pecked his eye. The third daughter was Umm Kulthum. She would marry Uthman after her sister, Ruqayyah's, death. However, she would die soon after too from illness. The fourth and youngest daughter of the prophet was Fatimah. She was married to Ali and had 5 children with him (4 of whom would reach adulthood). The two oldest are the famous Hasan and Husayn. Fatimah was the only child of the prophet to outlive him and not die in his lifetime. However, that didn't last long because she would die six months after the prophet died. On her deathbed, she requested to her husband Ali to marry her niece, Umayma (daughter of her eldest sister, Zainab). Umayma was a grown woman at this point and really loved Fatimah's children as a second mother so Fatimah wanted her to marry Ali which he did. The founder of the Ummayad Caliphate would ask for Umayma's hand in marriage to consolidate his rule over the caliphate after Ali's death (as she was the eldest female descendent of the prophet) but Umayma would reject him.

Really interesting video, glad you’re doing some history stuff👍🏻

16:15 it literally said on the tree, Fatimah was his daughter with Khadija and he had 6 other children with other wives.

The battle of the Talas river is one of the most important battles in human history. I heard it once from a chinese medical colleague of mine who himself is a Muslim. He narrated from his forefathers about the battle and how the Turks, during the battle were so amazed by the prayers of the muslims during the battles (as well as other things) that lasted for days, and according to him in the 5th day they swore allegiance to the Muslims and switched sides, and thus broke 1000 year old enslavement by the Chinese changing the outcome of the battle

Great video as always. I hope u continue the kings & generals early muslim expansion series

One of the first father of History other than Herodotus was IBNU KHALDUN a Persian Muslim. Ibnu Khaldun are the first Historian who questions about biases in history and he was the pioneer of the modern sociology and historical methodology that are still being used today in the study of History at University.

How did he go to Spain? EASY, all north Africa at that time was a Muslim land so he just ride his horse and caravans through out the way to Morocco and built his based there and when the Visigoths Nobles of Spain swear allegiance to him to help took power from the Visigoth King of Spain he went there with and army and easily defeated the Visigoth because at that time the Visigoth are still very primitive and not a match to the Arab armies. I think you should watch the series about IBN BATUTTAH to see how connected the Muslim world is in the middle ages and how did he travel from Morocco to Spain, to Mecca, to Persia, to Eastern Europe, to India, to Indonesia, to Malaysia and to China and then back again to Morocco. IT WAS AMAZING. You think people only travel around the world today with planes and cars, but 1000 years ago people already travel all over the world by donkeys, horses , camel and ships. xD.

16:20 All of prophet pbuh's baby boys died as infants. The girls lived for older ages but also died relatively early from various other reasons.

The areas abdul rahman went through are not coloured green, but are most probably inhabited by minor muslim kingdoms/clans from when the Ummayads expanded so its not just no mans land/non muslim lands. Also spain was under Muslim control on and off during the Ummayd times, so that explains how he could get a foothold there.

The Prophet Muhammad did have children,7 in total , however all of his sons, Abd Allah, Qasim and Ibrahim, passed away in their childhood. His daughters, Fatima , Ruqayyah, Umm Kulthum and Zaynab all reached adulthood but still passed away young, except for Fatima. During his death, The Prophet Muhammad only one offspring alive, his daughter Fatima, who married his nephew Ali and it is from this couple that the Prophet's lineage was preserved. People who are descendants of the Prophet generally have the titles 'Syed' or 'Sharif'. Well , not to mention, the Prophet did adopt a slave-boy names Zayd as his son, who later became a pretty influential figure in Islam and was one of the first muslims

You should have a look for a video about the Sacking of Baghdad, the Mongols rocked up and did a number on the city. They did such a good job that no one lived there for 60 years afterwards.

non muslims were not treated as a second class citizens, he say so just because they were forced to pay Jizyah for protection, but Muslims also had to pay Zakah and Zakah is even more

Regarding your comments at around 12.00 it must never be forgotten that 'history is always written by the victors'. Not always true but often enough to be borne in mind whenever looking at ancient history.

I think you missed that Spain or the Iberian peninsula has already been established as a Muslim territory so its not like he went to spain and created an Islamic Emirate from thin air but his journey there was arduous.

5:07 Extra tax? Everyone has to pay tax. Everywhere. Only adult men (not older men) that could afford to, payed this tax. And it was not high. In turn they had protection and were not enlisted in any wars. On the other hand ALL Muslims, men, women, old and young payed tax.

"The Persians ruled for a thousand years and did not need us Arabs even for a day. We have been ruling them for one or two centuries and cannot do without them for an hour." ~ *Abbasid Caliph Al-Ma'mun* (813-833 CE). Persians had a great influence on their conquerors. The caliphs adopted many Sassanid administrative practices, such as coinage, the office of vizier, or minister, and the divan, a bureaucracy for collecting taxes and giving state stipends. Indeed, Persians themselves largely became the administrators. It is well established that the Abbasid caliphs modeled their administration on that of the Sassanids. The caliphs adopted Sassanid court dress and ceremony. In terms of architecture Islamic architecture borrowed heavily from Persian architecture. The Sassanid architecture had a profound influence over Islamic architecture.

As a student of history for the last 20 years, the only thing that is clear to me is that history cannot be considered the truth, varying in every telling, sometimes drastically. Every culture views history differently, records it differently, and amongst many scholars, you will find as many versions as there are writers to write it.

Jack Rackham has a great vid on that Umayyad survivor who fled all the way to Spain if you're interested! It's the one on Abd Al-Rahman

Two good channels on here for history type stuff are Voices of the past and fall of civilisations,

Prophet Muhammad had 7 children. 3 sons who died in infancy and his daughters grew older but only one survived him, Fatimah. His lineage goes through Fatimah’s children (Hasan+Husain)

Hello Thank you for the nice video. Regarding your question, prophet Mohammad (PBUH) had three male sons, the older two sons passed before islam, and the third died after the beginning of islam while he was a baby. All the three died before the prophet died. Regarding daughters, the prophet had four daughters. I hope that clarifies your querry.

Dhimmis, including Christians and Jews, paid Jizya to demonstrate their submission to the Islamic state. In return, they received protection, religious freedom, and the ability to maintain their institutions. The tax amount varied based on wealth, and certain groups had exemptions. Jizya acknowledged the political authority of Muslim rulers while granting rights and freedoms to religious minorities. Not to mention Muslim has to pay Zakat. Zakat is typically calculated based on specific assets such as cash, gold, silver, and business investments. The standard Zakat rate is 2.5% of one's eligible wealth, although different rates may apply to different types of assets.

LMAOOOOOO of course there's a Crusader Kings promo in the video

You have to keep in mind that by the time of the Abbasid revolution, the Muslims, some 40 years earlier, in 711, by Tareq bin Ziyad, had already taken control of most of the Iberian peninsula but they didn't have a prominent central figure/leader until the ummayad prince fled there. Just commenting on your reaction in mid-video

i allways find it interesting with mahamad because in most religions wer have basicly no evidence of the prophets being real people but we know mahamids family makes interesting from a athiest point of view of why would he claim to met god was it power was it helucination or was it real

I like your interest in history.

You should never take an historian at his word, i agree, 100 percent Connor, the clues in the name, his-story 😉

When power is spiritualised many suffer.

They skip stuff that is why it is confusing how he arose in Spain. YES Muslims had already taken it. A separate video on that would focus in on that area.

Earlier in the video it showed they had conquered Spain or a lot of it so they already owned it

W video

Some misleading information potrey by this video about taxes I request you to read about taxes in islam

The Prophet have a lot of kids but many of them died young only his daughter Fatima and his Son in law Ali's decedent are left. Today if you see any Muslim with the name Sayed/Said or Sharif/ Syarifah that means THEY ARE THE DECEDENT OF THE PROPHETS grandsons Hassan and Hussein. So the answer to your question is YES and there are millions of decedent of the prophets today around the world and most of them are not even in the Arabs world but in Asia.

The prophet Muhammad (saw) had many kids, out of which 4 sons but they all died in infancy. He had daughters who lived and had descendants. Allah/The God didn't want his religion / Islam to be based on monarchy.

3:19 They couldn't even get Muhammad's family tree right. All his children, apart from Ibrahim his youngest, he had with Khadija.

From Morroco he crossed

Muhammad had kids but they all died very young except one girl that lived her name was Fatima

Not important becoming Shia and Sunni ..Need to be Pious Muslim ❤

Yes the prophet did have sons but died but his daughters lived and them And Their children are a great part of Islamic history, ,,,and the Baghdad wall some of it does exist today but most of it was destroyed by mongols and then in WW1

22:28 if you like the wall, you'll love Aleppo Citadel!

Marco Polo visited China in 1275

Abu bakr or any caliph didn’t dare claim to be God’s deputy, not even prophet Muhammad dared call himself that, he called himself the servant of God, please don’t narrate ignorance

"I wonder what historical inte..." None

This bideo is kinda weird and has a lot of things wrong

هاذا لا يقول بشكل صحيح كذاب 😮

there was not Islam golden age.

Baghdad was great for 100 years, then the fundies took over. A Turkish pretorian guard got control and then the Mongols terminated all of the Muslim East.

Muslim enter spain and portugal in 711 AD. different muslim kingdom rise up for independent from the umayyad caliphate before abd Al-Rahman flee the abbasid and arrive in spain it was the zirids the muslim kingdom that rule spain and Abd Al-Rahman just reclaim spain of his former forefather kingdom

Bro, Marco Polo is about 1000 years after these events

@mcjibbin check out battle of Uhud by historymarche.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n65xltmd0Mu5ink.html Here you go man abdul rahman journey

you're making epic history look bad.