Sincere appreciation for this. As a lifelong scholar of this history I am saving this lecture and purchasing the book to read to my granddaughter whose great-grandmother’s Sephardi family shares this narrative……..born in Alexandria. May I add that scholarship of Professor Avi Shlaim has also elightened my understanding of the jews who found haven in the Ottoman Empire.

Thank you for delivering this message that will never be taught in public schools and few colleges. Much appreciated.

I so appreciate Dr. Raja’s lecture- not only the content, namely how the ruler of the Muslim Ottoman Empire saved the Jews of Spain after 1492’s expulsion by Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand, and how the Jews of Spain, the Sephardim, thrived for centuries in the Ottoman Empire- but Dr. Raja’s gentle persuasive (not didactic, professorial) down to earth way of instructing us and correcting misunderstandings of our shared Jewish-Muslim-Arab history.

Thank you for this information. It indicates that the Jewish people and the Muslims lived together peacefully in the past, and can even today co-exist without conflict.

Quite enlightening ❤ Thank you, Professor

Wow! 65 years old, and i never had a clue about this very important piece of history! Thank you so much for enlightening us.

The printing press was invented by Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany in 1439. Ottomans were first introduced to the printing press by the Sephardic Jews in Istanbul in 1494. Ottoman Empire granted protection to Sephardic Jews who were expelled from Spain by the Spanish Inquisition in 1492.

Excellent. The time in history I would loved most to have lived would be in Spain when the Muslims ruled Spain. I’m Jewish.

7:12 Muslims, Jews and Christians in the Middle East treated each other as brothers and sisters. Periodically, families argue but still have a love for each other.

How interesting. Many thanks ❤

I never heard this bit of history , thank you so much .

I wish I-d had a professor like you - the way you tell a story, leaving out the unimportant details is just great. Thanks.

I have no problem whether you are a Jew, Arab, Muslim,Hindu, Christian, Black, White, Chinese, Indian; the problem arises when one nation think that they are superior to the others.

Thank tou for another great history lesson!

Very, very admirable presentation, in intent, form, and content. Thank you so much.

Thankyou for this very instructive video, it shows that peaceful co-existence is possible.

In my high school history class (and in many schools in the US it is taught) and my sons learned it when taking history classes in 2010. The Sultan sent 8 ships to Spain to get the Jews from Spain in 1492. The Sultan also knew that the Ottoman Empire needed business, finance, and trade to function as an empire since many Moslems were not in these professions except in the military as warriors. It was advantageous to both parties, especially since the Empire needed a strong economic base. After the expulsion, Spain's economy decreased. Also, Columbus came to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire to finance his travel west in the Atlantic Ocean to reach India to open a new trade route flanking the Silk Route believing that the Earth is spherical, not flat but the Sultan rejected it however, Spanish Queen Isabella did not. This decision changed the world history. Furthermore, Jews and non-Christians in the Empire were taxed heavily since they were not Moslems and it was protection (protected by the military of the Empire) and wealth taxation. Recent wealth taxation was placed after the creation of the Republic of Turkiye in the late 1930s but mainly after WWII to spread the wealth of non-Moslems to the Muslim population. So, everything was not that cozy.

Thank you so much. This information has been very enlightening to my history studies on the matter. Bless you.

In Portugal, around the same time, the Jews were also expelled. Many went to Holland where they settled and made good profit from the spices brought from India by the portuguese. Profit that could have stayed in portugal if they had not been expelled. In Amsterdam there is a neighbourhood where they lived and where the streets now have portuguese names. The Jews also fled to Marroco where to this day they live in peace with Muslims.

Thank you Doctor Masood Raja

I live in Spain and the Muslims and Jews lived in peace and left lots of culture that exists to this day. The Alhambra Palace in Granada the irrigation systems the food is influenced by these cultures and grateful we are for them.

The Morrocan emir, did the same and saved the Mizrahi.. So did the Albanians and the Muslims of India.. Muslims were always close to the Jews, until colonization and the holocaust.. Antisemitism is historically a European Christian problem...

Through Oral History I have heard this narrative that the Bosnian Jews found peace a prosperity in Sarajevo after being expelled in 1492 from Spain. The narrative made me wonder HOW did they get from Spain to the centre of Europe (Balkan). This video provided the logical answer = Ottoman Navy. Thanks ffor providing the missing link

Thank you for sharing invaluable information, everyone should be able to know real history.

Thank you for the information

Thank you so much. The old jewish temples / synagogues still exist in Turkey. There is another historic fact I want to deliver: When the Nazis in Germany began to ban Jewish scientists from the german universities after 1933, it was Mustafa Kemal, the founder of the Turkish Republic who invited the german Jewish professors to come to Türkiye for building a modern high education structure. There have been Jewish sientists and artists of divers professions who were founding and leading new faculties in the bigger cities in Türkiye. The refuges were organized in Zurih/Switzerland. The building of the Turkish parliament, for example, is created by one of them. The huge statues in Ankara are created by another Jewish artist.

If memory serves, in the book called Dogs of God, the Spanish monarchy not only expelled Jewish people but took their wealth. The taking of wealth from the newly united Spain from various groups funded the 1492 expedition to the Americas.

Thank you. Many spanish Jews were also welcomed in North Africa.

Thank you for this. I am glad you made the presentation. I had read about this and feel even more disappointed with the settlers and their violence towards the Palestinians

It is nice to hear something positive about the Ottoman Empire.

Bravo sir. I salute you 🫡

Amsterdam, We the Dutch , also welcomed lots of Jewish people in our midst at the same,.. Bringing in so much Wealth & Wisdom,... The ,Kick- off, for the famous Dutch Golden Age......😊

Thank you. Yes, very interesting. Every city n town in Spain up to Toledo , Avila , has jewish quaters, n Islam left some of their finest architectural wonders in Andalusia.

Yes, a famous poet from shiraz said , " A wise enemy is better than an ignorent friend , a wise enemy lifts you up but an ignorant friend knocks you down.

Thank you for this interesting piece of history. I remember one of my professors telling us that to study customs documents during certain period of the Ottoman Empire, you needed to know Hebrew, because most of the customs officials were Jews.

Under the Spanish Inquisition, Jews wore the Star of David for the first time, they were called Marranos. Moses Maimonide, a Jewish philosopher of Aristotelian thought like Averroes, preferred to take refuge in Egypt, where he was Cadie, rather than going to the North where anti-Judaism was rife. and the persecution of the Church.

Excellent information about the successful partnership of Hispanic Jews and Muslims in the middle ages. I was aware of the prosperity but didn't know that Ferdinand of Aragon did the dirty deed and it was the ottoman Sultan Bayezedi II who was the Saviour. I am benefited by this information, thank you Dr. Raja.

Thank you for this most enlightening video. We do need to remember these valuable historical facts at these crazy times we live in. Muslims and Jews have peacefully coexisted for centuries before and surely can do so again. Peace is possible.

Thank you for this description of what is POSSIBLE between people in this world by looking back to a moment of enlightenment and true human culture from the past.

That you for your wonderful educational videos! History is all pertinent to today but we lack this beautiful history in our education system in UK & US .. absolutely nothing mentioned ..

Thank you so for your teachings . I learn so much !

Interesting. Thanks, peace

Thank for sharing with us.

Thank you so much. Really informative and interesting.

LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU ,FOR THIS MOST INFORMATIV , SUBJECT. SHOULD BE DISTRIBUTED ON ALL PORTERS

Thanks, I was so happy to know this history.

To be fair, the Ottoman Muslims were at war with The Roman Empire, and had just captured Constantinople. This is like Muslims losing Mecca today. During the Muslim 8 centuries of occupation in Spain, the Jewish people acted as the middle men between the Christian elite and the Muslim elite and they became very wealthy. The Christians were treated like lesser beings by Muslims. Many Muslims would either refuse to trade with Christians or apply a tax for the privilege (Jizya). The Jews would represent Christians in all affairs with Muslims. The loss of Constantinople was the nail in the coffin for Christian, Muslim and Jewish peaceful cohabitation. The Christians saw the Jews as conspirators. If we examine the history of the Jews, you will notice that they have always been in lead roles, advisors, administrators or religious figure head (Rome), of all the great Empires; Babylonian, Egyptian, Roman, Ottoman, British, and even America today (look at the top positions in Biden's administration, hence their support of Israel in Gaza). The endless greed of mankind to want to take over the world, be it physically, mentally, spiritually, or economically, has a price!

Thank you for wonderful talk

Thank you for posting this interesting history.

Thanks so much doctor for this history lesson

Thanks for the history lesson..... the message is very timely.

As an American, my ancestors died and fought to save them from their fate in ww2. And all I've ever heard publicly stated is that we took too long or didn't try hard enough 🤷‍♂️ Some people will never be happy. And thair sadness is contagious if you let it in

Thank you Dr Masood

Thank you for reminding us our history. Iranians also welcomed Jews running away from the Egyptian pharaoh if you go way back to the beginning of Jewish history. Jews and Muslims living in Russia has also a very strong bond. They fought together against Soviet communism.

Thank you for your video I found it very interesting

I think it is important to add that the Jews of Spain prospered under Muslim rule there. The Jews of Toledo were the great translators of the Greek classics from Arabic that enabled the Renaissance. Absent Muslim rule, there may never have been a significant Jewish population in Spain to begin with.

Thank you for the information. One thing that is always left out in history is that of the origin of people in those days... Mainly the Black (Africa n) Moores... At the beginning all the peoples were black they became lighter skin when they mixed with the Europeans (whos origin was also black) those in the area of Spain were more n turkey etc are the result of that mixture... If we don't go all the way back to when the issue of "RELIGION" started we will never get to the root of the problem which in most part is RELIGION DOMINANCE.

"Thank you for sharing this truth -- God Bless You!"

As @sheikowi mentioned, Turkish Embassy in Germany issued Turkish passports to Jews of Germany to save them from opression of the Nazis despite the pressure of the Nazi government. Then the ambassador was Muhtar Kent's, CocaCola COO, father and Israili goverment gave Muhtar a medal for his fathers actions. Beside that Turkiye also opened its borders for Germans and Austrians fleeing. During that time most of the Turkish universities hired the migrant professors to teach. Most of these migrants returned back after the war but big portion stayed in Turkiye.

Just thank you. I sent it to friends

Thank you ❤

Wonderful!

Dr.Masood...Blessed, n well done presentation..Brief n to the point but far reaching, touching, n worthful explanation in upholding the mercy n pure, favourable Justice, of lslam , addressed to the fraternity of the human race..🤲🙏✌️🎯👌👈🤣

The Ottomans were always accepting and appreciative of the Jews. Ironic!

The ottomans also saved the Irish from famine by sending potatoes to Ireland even though some of it were confiscated by the British and sold.

This is the last thing I expected to show up for me to listen to. 1492 was also when Columbus reached the Caribbean (not the American continents). I have read some of his journals. His family were part of the people kicked out of Spain, they were Jews. He was one of the ancestors of my former husband, now dead. Few people are aware that he had a son in Puerto Rico, where we were from. He was NOT looking for spices, he was looking for long lost ancestors, (not what Queen Isabella thought) and he found them. He had with him maps that were saved from the burning of the Library of Alexandria. I always wonder where he got them from, since he was not yet born when the Library burned from the second time. Listening to Dr Masood Raja, solved the riddle. He got them from someone who would have been decendant of people who were around when the Library still existed, not in Spain. I had already figured out which of the tribes of Judea some of my ancestors were from. It took me years but the Tainos the people of the Caribbean were decendants, of whom the prophet Ezekiel referred to as "two sticks, one for Judah and one for Joseph". The Tainos were from Judah. I have known it from quite a while but it was not until a few years ago that I was able to know for sure. The evidence was located in a unihabited island of Puerto Rico, Isla Mona, unfortunatelly the British Museum was involved and they stole the evidence and hid it in the "British Museum" where they keep the patrimony of nations. The group included two rabis experts in ancient Hebrew who were able to determine what it said. How I found that out is another of those thing that I don't really understand. But the information showed up and then within hours was gone. I'm an old woman 77 years old but I know for a fact that I have been guided during all my life by Archangel Michael since I was delivered with not signs of life until two hours later when I was interacting and smiling with something no one could see. I am NOT claiming to be some angelic being, on the contrary. I do wonder why me. BUT one thing for sure, I have been protected numerous times from what would have been expected to result in my death. Why me? I learned long ago, that you don't question. I do believe that before I pass away, many things will be answered.

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excellent

Enjoyed for your enlightment❤🤗❤

The Ottoman Empire saved the Jews. But no western countries would ever mention that.

Conveniently under-taught in the so-called West

Sir , can you please make video on how to choose topic of desertation , what approaches one needs to take, and how to make a good desertation..🙏🙏

Appreciated lecture.👍

Thank you

Every country that is well aware of the history and is enough consolidated to allow itself to think about history in an appropiate timely distance has alot to regret. In the case of Spain and although it is explainable, after the 900 "reconquista" there was the idea to have catholicism installed as the only religion in Spain to strengthen unity. After a certain time the said impoverishment became more and more evident, Spain falling back in the following centuaries on nealy all cultural fields, most of all in science. And not only by the expulsion of the jews but also of the moslems. It is as it is.

My grandfather and his siblings were descended from Spanish Jews who were expelled from Spain his cousin was a Mendoza which I believe was given to converts who later returned to be Jewish. When he was a young man he and his family wore very middle eastern clothes and a turban type headdress with a little cone sticking out on the top. Later on they changed into western clothes. He was very dark skinned and had a marvellous collection of prayer rugs so I am a little confused if he was Jewish how come this very strong influence.

Thanks for your presentation but , if I may, it seems to have come short of covering the Jews' exodus to North Africa, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia at this period in the history of Andalusia.

We need more fctual and positive anecdotes like this story in this world of negative misinforamation...Bravo

Massod bhai... I have a very bitter experience that changed my life for saying almost the exact words in class, during my master studies here in Germany. I did my bachelor studies in Istanbul, Turkey at one of the Gulen movement universities. Where I was taught about this case. When, I expressed this in class during the visit of a Jewish scholar, and a former student of the University, I was honored by the Jewish scholars, but the German protestants teacher, that organized the meeting found it an anti Christian move, and then started a campaign against me to label be an antisemite, or something else like a homophobe as according to them, this is a serious transgression between Jewish and Christian relationships by the dominated Muslim. I am sure you had similar experiences, but I was seriously bullied by judeochristian liars at my university, who are actually nitzchean Nazis..

Excellent video

Thank you sir.🙏

I was aware of this. Just didn't know the name of the Ottoman Sultan at the time.

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Three interesting facts about the inquisition. 1. I believe the Jews lended money to the Spanish crown to sponsor the building and provisioning of the discovery ships in the hope of receiving part of the profits from the discoveries, gold, spice, slaves. When it was clear that the profits would be huge, probably bigger than any other in history, with the exploration of north and south America, large parts of Africa and trade with Asia, the kings decided to exclude the jews. This is my view 2. In portugal today in jewish museums there are 500 year old house keys. When the jews left, they closed their houses and took the keys with them in the hope of coming back one day. They never came back but passed the keys to the next generation until today and recently families donated the keys to the museums. 3. There are still jews today in portugal that never left and hid their religion for centuries. Today there are synagogues and mosques in portugal, a religious tolerant country.

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What about those that converted to the catholic religion? Many come to the SPANISH AMERICAN COLONIES.

Thank you.

I m jew and i didn t knew. Interresting !! 👏👏

OMG!!! I have learned a great picture of living together of Muslims and Jewish. Thanks.

Very informative I hope Jews should watch this historical narrative

Dr Masood Raja - would you talk about why these certain people continue to get expelled from here, from there, from lands. Is there some reason we aren't seeing?

We Turks know this and we are proud of the Selim saving the Jews from Ferdinand .

Thank you for the truth ❤

Is Bayezid in anyway connected or related to Bayezid Bistami, who is well known to the sufi tradition? And from Andaluz Ibn ‘Arabi from the 13th Century is well known.

The Muslims also protected Jews during the crusades.

Morocco also saved many Jews as a neighboring country of the then Spain. That is how Morocco ended up with many Sephardic Jews.

Thank you Dr Masood. My grandmother once told me: "We are Portugueze no no no we are Spanish," in a Filipino words. We are in the Philippines and maybe part of the diaspora you are talking. Toda Raba. Muchas Gracias. Maraming Salamat po.

This is beautiful 😍

Jews lived their golden age among Muslims. Their best Rubeanic scholars lived in islamic lands. The catholics did not differentiate between muslims and jews. They persecuted them and considered them ennemies. Jews went with muslims to teh Ottoman empire and North Africa.

The Ottomans. Thousands of Jews made their way to Thesalonika and other parts of the Empire of the Horizons. They found sanctuary and prospered. Then they were persecuted. Prospered, persecuted, prospered, and so on. This is very complex. As is all history, of all races, nationalities, religions etc etc.