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A brief history of Islamic expansion

🕑 Added 2024-11-12 23:41:20 +0000 UTC

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Madhav Nair

Well do you mean India was unsuitable for horse warfare or travelling to India was not feasible?

Anders Erikstad

unsuitable terrain for horse warfare no?

Dakapo

You are correct and it was my gut reaction to your avoidance of that topic that spoke. Not my rational mind. I am sorry. And on sources i only have them for convertion to conduct slave trade. Not to avoid enslavement per se. To my defence there are bigger leaps within context that have been and is being made in this discussion. BUT that doesnt excuse my inappropriate comment. Again, don't react and do what i did. I was wrong. Excuse me.

Premodernist

There are a lot of things I didn't talk about. That doesn't mean those things aren't important. When it comes to the expansion of Islam, though, it isn't necessary to talk about the slave trade to cover the topic. I've never heard of regions converting to Islam to avoid being enslaved. Can you point me to a source for that? Africans did sometimes convert, but they didn't convert to avoid being enslaved. The ones who converted were typically the elites who were themselves dealing in slaves.

Dakapo

Not even mentioning the Trans-Saharan slave trade while tralking about the Trans-Saharan trade routes is just wow. I understand that this video is about the spread of Islam as a religion. But this comes off as someone talking about the spread of Christianity in S/N.America on the topic of the importance of the Atlantic trade to it and not even acknowledging the Atlantic slave trade. The slave trade was part of the spread in East-Africa. Escpecially for kingdoms trying to protect themself from Berber and Arab slave raids. Converting was a really good protection since muslim slaves is not allowed in Islam. Again, just wow.

Premodernist

That's a really good question. I don't know why.

Madhav Nair

Why didnt the Mongols ever try expanding into India?

Premodernist

Any modern translation will be fine. I'd maybe recommend The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary, edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr. If I were going to get just one Qur'an translation I'd probably get that one. It's laid out like a study Bible with explanatory articles and footnotes and whatnot.

Faraz Masroor

Great video. My own great grandparents, I believe, participated in the Indian Partition (going to Pakistan). And my parents moved to the US from Pakistan for education in the 1990s so after the INA act of 1965. :)

Gabriel Frodo

Love your videos! Do you have any recommendations for English translation editions of the Quran for scholarly study?

Hany Abdulsamad

I was taught a version of this overview in school. For a long time, I had the naive impression that the different Caliphates had absolute control over the Middle East and North Africa. Only recently have I started understanding how fragile some of these times were and how power shifted over the centuries.