How The Muslim Berbers Lost Spain & Portugal | Al-Andalus Documentary

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In the 11th century, the Muslim Taifa states were often engaged in fighting each other whilst being vulnerable to the increasingly ambitious Christian Kingdoms of the north. This opened the door for two successive groups of Muslim Berbers who emerged from the fringes of the Sahara Desert and were able to assert their authority over al-Andalus from the end of the 11th century until the beginning of the 13th century. Both the Almoravids and Almohads would play key roles in the story of Muslim Iberia; with both emerging at important junctures when the Christian Reconquista was gaining significant momentum. These two energetic and ferocious Berber groups proved to be worthy foes of the Christian Kingdoms, putting a stop to the momentum of the Reconquista, even if it was just temporarily.

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Joss Edwards - Invasion

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0:00 Intro
1:37 Almoravids
12:00 Almohads

[HikmaHistory]

Who were more successful in Al-Andalus - the Almoravids or the Almohads and why?

[samwill]

One more lesson nobody learned from the Romans: Inviting foreign armies into the country to fight your wars for you, literally has never ended well.

[I_hughjo]

Still a very beautiful region with very kind people.
Much Love to you guys, .from your Southern Neigbor, Morroco

[izanabdullah]

Thanks for many high-quality videos with clear narratives. Middles East and Mediterranean histories are so complex from ancient times till the modern centuries. What a vast beautiful places but sad that many wars ravaged nice places and nice people.

[ahjotco]

Thank you for an informative video of European and Muslim history. Watching from the USA.

[brunopimenta]

I'm Portuguese and all i want to say is that you shouldn't only visit Portugal and Spain you also should visit Morocco it's a very photogenic country nice weather, nice architecture and their laid down culture, their hashish is great ;)

[Imperiused]

Great summary of events! You are such a fantastic channel! Thanks for your hard work

[richardmollberg]

Great! All the detailed and expressfull paintings (and maps) bring history back to life as you speak.

[almurabitun]

Muslim rule (Ummayyad Arabs, Himyari Yemeni Arabs and Berbers of North Africa) of Iberia is a clear example of how racism failed our retention of the land.

The Himyari Yemenid and Ummayyad Arabs were time and time again racist towards their Muslim Berber and indigenous Iberian counterparts

[AM-ytyj]

🇲🇦🤝🇪🇸🤝🇵🇹
This 3 countries share a lot of history that a lot of people don’t know yet

[vitorjpereira]

Greetings To Morocco.
We Are Friends Now.
🇵🇹❤🇲🇦

[DrJohnnyJ]

"Vulnerable to Christian aggression" or "an opportunity for Christians to be liberated from the invaders"?

[joemosely]

This was Very Informative.

Everybody Colonized Everybody.

Nobody Has Clean Hands.

[jarrywanakerta]

Your channel deserves more subs and views. Thank you for the splendid works 👏

[azerazer]

Moi aussi, je suis en attente, ça m'intéresse l'Histoire de vraie histoire de la civilisation Arabo_Berber Musulmane en Espagne et au Portugal....

[mohamedali]

The flaw in studying history is that we sometimes read its pages to read the news of victories and defeats, and news of births and deaths. But history is another thing behind this phenomenon, which is to know what introductions were organized until they ended in victory or defeat. And this is a divine law that continues in the conflict of human beings and civilizations.

[antoniocastrohenriques]

I found a somewhat serious mistake at 21:10. Santarém was attacked but not captured by the Almohads in 1190. And silves was only recaptured in the campaign in the following year. Anyway, big admirer of Hikma’s videos! Love to learn with him.

[Aryadusvril]

The loss of Spain and Portugal must be glorious for any Christian, but really sad for the Moroccans and Muslims

[leojackson]

Invaluable and extremely rich and rewarding to persons interested in this fascinating period of EUR and African history. Thanks for bringing forth this magnificent factual and historical data.🙂🦁

[asturiasceltic]

How can you lose something that was never yours.