The History of Spain Podcast

The History of Spain Podcast


Fall of the Umayyad Caliphate

September 30, 2019

This is episode 23 called Fall of the Umayyad Caliphate and in this episode you will learn:

SHOW NOTES

- Important announcement regarding the new website that has now a store and the start of monetization of the podcast, through Patreon, donations, ads and the store
- The military failures of wali Anbasa and the rise of taxes, leading to increasing internal strife, as it was happening in the rest of the Caliphate
- The reappointment of Abd al-Rahman al-Ghafiqi as wali of al-Andalus and the last major expedition of the Umayyad Caliphate in the West, devastating Aquitaine but ending as a disaster with the Battle of Tours
- After the death of al-Ghafiqi, factionalist Arab conflicts and ethnic struggles between Arabs and Berbers became uncontrollable
- The start of the Great Berber Revolt in Maghreb due to the second-class treatment that Muslim Berbers received
- Permanent political division of Islam after the success of the Great Berber Revolt in the Battle of the Nobles and the Battle of Bagdoura
- First steps towards the self-government of al-Andalus
- Rebellion of the Berbers of al-Andalus, who abandoned their garrisons of the north and allowed Alfonso I of Asturias to take them
- The coming of the Syrians who survived the Battle of Bagdoura under Balj ibn Bishr
- The suppression of the Berber revolt in al-Andalus and the seizure of power by the Syrians
- Last attempt to restore Umayyad caliphal rule in al-Andalus, by agreeing to a governor to reestablish peace and order and stop the civil war
- Restart of the civil war and coup d'état led by the Syrians al-Sumayl and Yusuf ibn Abd al-Rahman, who became the last wali of al-Andalus although he was de facto independent from Umayyad central authority
- Success of the Abbasid Revolution in 750 and fall of the Umayyad Caliphate
- The arrival in al-Andalus of an exiled survivor of the Umayyad dynasty, Abd al-Rahman, who would establish the Emirate of Córdoba in 756
- Reflection on the consequences of the Abbasid Revolution for the Islamic world