Baghdad Burns: Fall of the Abbasids

[@EpichistoryTv]

I hope you enjoy the second and final episode of our epic history of the Abbasid Caliphate! Thank you to Osprey Publishing for permission to use their fantastic images - check video description for links to some great titles from their range of military history books. Thank you also to Prof Antoine Borrut, our historical consultant, and to all our Patreon supporters! www.patreon.com/EpicHistoryTV

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The famous belle-lettrist Abu Hayyan al-Towhidi (d414/1023) quoted Ebn al-Moqaffa* (d.142/759) as stating the following differences between peoples: The Persians are masters of politics, civility, rules, and protocols. The Greeks have science and philosophy. The Indians have thought, reflection, discernment and magic, and the Turks have courage and audacity. The Africans have joy, endurance and labour. The Arabs have valour, hospitality, loyalty, heroism, generosity, humour and eloquence.

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[@aquilaartsph]

Finally it's here! What a truly epic narration of the early Muslim history. I don't typically hear about much of the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates as it's usually always starting with the Ottomans or sometimes hear about the Seljuk Turks and Fatimids during the Crusasdes, but I've always wondered just how the Muslim world came to be and it's often glossed over. And my god, the quote about the Tigris river's waters "running black with ink" from all the books thrown there is such a chilling and badass description. Now I eagerly want to see how you would handle the history of the Mongol Empire from Genghis Khan down to its fall as well. Knowing they were the last Far East Asian power to take on European and Middle Eastern powers until the Japanese's Imperial rise. But of course, in good time. Thank you so much Epic History for covering this period. I'm excited to resume to the conclusion of Napoleon's campaign in Italy and hope there are more about him to cover such as in Egypt and his plans to take power. Seeing as how, Ridley Scott has produced a full motion picture about him!

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Also that quote about Turks in the video: "The Turks have become master of the land, it is better to stay silent and Obey."

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[@ambition112]

0:01: 📜 The Abbasid caliphate, which ruled for five centuries, was a period of military dominance, city construction, scholarly brilliance, and technological innovation in the Islamic world. 4:21: 💥 After a year-long bloody siege, the city fell and the caliph was captured and executed. The new caliph, Al-Ma'mun, formed an alliance with the Alids, a powerful family descended from Ali, the fourth caliph and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad. However, this alliance led to major revolts in Baghdad, causing Al-Ma'mun to abandon it and impose new religious doctrines on the caliphate. 8:28: 💥 The IX century saw radical changes in military tactics, including the use of specialized troops armed with petroleum-based weapons and the recruitment of Turkish slave soldiers who became skilled cavalry and archers. 12:36: 💥 The Abbasid caliphate faced internal conflicts and struggles for power, leading to a decade of anarchy and challenges to their authority. 17:24: 💥 The Abbasid authority collapsed in Arabia, with a Shiite group attacking pilgrims and stealing the Black Stone, while Persian dynasties gained independence and the Abbasid caliph became a powerless figurehead. 22:16: 💥 The Abbasid caliphate regained independence in the 12th century but was soon destroyed by the Mongols in the 13th century. 26:31: 💔 The last Abbasid caliph was captured and taken prisoner by the Ottoman Empire, marking the end of their significant political power. Recap by Tammy AI

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I love them mentioning the Assassins who have inspired the Assassin's Creed series. And the history of the 860s,70s is exactly what we are going to witness soon in the upcoming Assassin's Creed Mirage!❤

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Thats why i have been studying alot for the abbassid empire When you know the history and then play AC after that setting it just feel next level Like if you are a teacher and notice every detail alot more 😂😂

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Let's hope Mirage delivers on historical accuracy. Loving the setting and time period so far.

[@najibkhan1749]

​@@Zrs3820can't bloody wait for mirage. It's going to be epic!

[@aaauuup]

❤🌹I am from Baghdad, Iraq, the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate. Thank you for the clip

[@al-qadi3427]

This looks amazing already. There's a thorough video on Arab and Turkic warfare in the later period (11th-14th century) by Schwerpunkt that really deserves as an integration. I'm glad that you've been covering more Islamic warfare in the last couple of months

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Never thought I would find a fellow schwerpunkt fan in the wild

[@محمدفالح-ظ7ث]

It’s the Arabic golden age , nothing turkic about it

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[@onetwothreefourfive12345]

The Byzantine Empire looks terrifyingly small compared this juggernaut. It’s amazing they held on to as much territory as they did

[@maddogbasil]

Their peak was just insane At one point the entire world knew of the wealth and flood of knowledge in Baghdad They're capital exists in the Actual Centre of the silk trade making them the focal point of world trade Such a vast proliferation of knowledge, wealth and power wouldn't be seen until around the 19th century when the Europeans had managed to make the west the center of learning, wealth and power

[@tylerellis9097]

Anatolia was too close to the Byzantines power structure and too defensive for the Already Gigantic and stretched Caliphate to invest taking it over annual Raids.

[@عليياسر-ذ5ب]

​@@tylerellis9097No, the Romans were paying money to the Abbasids 😂😂😂😂

[@tylerellis9097]

@@عليياسر-ذ5ب They paid tribute some times too yes but this ignores the multiple invasions launched into the Empire by the Caliph himself like the Sack of Amorium and Byzantine Victories like Akroinion or Lalakaon

[@عليياسر-ذ5ب]

@@tylerellis9097 When the Romans tried to respond to these raids, there were Slavic slaves in their army, and when they faced the Abbasid army, they joined the Abbasid army and fought the Romans.

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THIS SERIES IS AWESOME. ABBASIDS THE GREAT MUSLIM DYNASTY THE HEIGHT OF ALL MUSLIM POWER. WE always appreciate your all-hard work and dedication to make these vids. your huge fan from Sri Lanka .

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The Battle of Manzikert paved way for Crusades and the Turkification of Anatolia which laid the seeds of the Ottoman empire which conquered Constantinople ending Rome and triggering the Age of Discovery which shaped much of the modern world,... A battle can only be this impactful

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​@@sedrfghbn The very reason that Europeans explored was to find a new way to India, because they didn't dare and lacked the power to go there through the Turks

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​@@truthhearer6323That's not true. The Ottomans only required to tax the Europeans, just as the Byzantines before them had done. The Europeans figured they could find alternative trade routes and control them directly. It was just greed.

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@@lambert801 But the land route is way smaller than the sea route. Which means that their was a significant tax that made sea route look cheaper.

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@@lambert801 and they couldn't do shit about it so what I'm saying is true

[@lambert801]

@@truthhearer6323 They didn't need any dare or power to go through the Ottomans! You're making it seem like the Ottomans had closed off the trade routes to Europeans, while in reality, all the Europeans had to do was to pay the Ottomans to use the trade routes that the Ottomans controlled.

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When the ‘Abbāsid Caliphs were under Buwayhid suzerainty their Mamlūk policy was not free from the pressure of that Daylamite dynasty. The success of the Daylamite soldiers in so many eastern armies is really astounding, but in the slightly longer run they stood no chance against the Turkish Mamlūks, and they disappeared. Even a Buwayhid ruler preferred Turks over them (see e.g.Bosworth, , “Ghaznevid military organisation”, p. 42

[@عليياسر-ذ5ب]

Strange, these soldiers were elite soldiers before the Turks

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Did the Khwarezmian Shah used the turkish mamluks for their soldiers as well?

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@@iamleoooo The Khorezmians were from the Turks

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The Abbasids lost all possessions they had inherited from the previous two caliphates while most of their existence consists as a rump state protectorate of other muslim dynasties like Seljuks & Buyids, Hulagu's conquest of Baghdad finally put an end to the failed state.

[@Jack-he8jv]

mainly because they were multicultural, the rashidun and ummayad in contrast were ethnic arab empires.

[@عليياسر-ذ5ب]

Because they allow slaves to have a place to rule

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@@Jack-he8jvThat’s false. The Arab heartland was always in Arabia but most of their empire were non Arabs mostly Persians and Armenians and later Turks.

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Arabic proverb cited by the North African analytic historian Ibn Khaldun of the fourteenth century: dawlah 'ind al-turk, din 'ind al-'arab wa adab 'ind al-furs Power (rests) with the Turk, religion with the Arab, and culture with the Persian.

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Fantastic video, The Abbasids sure were epic and the story telling here was captivating. 😎👍

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[@youssefgebaly1990]

It should be notice and put I context that Al-al-Mu'tasim’s mother was Turkic that’s why he tend to choose them over others. His brother, Al -Ma’mon, was more reliant on Persian because his mother was Persian and he lived in Merv for years. Al-Amin, although was younger, was chosen because of his mother who come from a noble Abassid Arab (Hashmya). In addition to that, she was the one to be associated with Haron El-Rashid in the one thousand and one nights.

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Thank you for showing Turkish influence in the early Islamic era

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Finally, I have waiting this video for two months🎉🎉🎉

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one of your best works yet

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Masterpiece of a documentary. Thank you EPIC HISTORY.

[@rpilo5560]

the end of Hulagu was terrifying. He died naked in the desert of Iraq, barking like a dog in a state of epilepsy, and he was urinating on himself (as mentioned by Muslim historians). He suffered a stroke and also from epilepsy after the defeat of Ain Jalut and the series of many heavy humiliating defeats that he suffered in front of his Muslim cousin Berke Khan and the Muslim Golden Horde espeasiclly his defeat at the river of terek where he lost 200,000 of his soldiers who destroyed Baghdad

[@عليياسر-ذ5ب]

He was deceived by someone who was serving the Abbasid caliph, and Hulagu trusted this person because he helped him.

[@blenderbanana]

Do Muslims not suffer strokes or evacuate themselves on death?

[@cjay5641]

Hulagu was incompetent and not like his ancestors like Genghis. If Genghis was there it will be more catastrophic.

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Source? moslem propaganda. Israel has beated moslem forces many times. Why allah doesn't help you now?

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False he died in north-western Iran near Zarrineh rûd (Zarrineh river) near lake Urmia.

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I love that this channel actually calls the Roman Empire the eastern Roman Empire and not Byzantine empire. Unlike a lot of other channels

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French historians, propose and used byzantine name, much later, to distinguish the Catholic and Orthodox Romans.

[@manisdd]

Also is good to know that Arabs, Persians and Turks rarely used the name Romans.

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To my knowledge this is not true at all. The word in Arabic (and thereby in Persian and Turkish) for the Roman Empire was "Rum", literally, "the Romans". They may have used other terms but they certainly didn't use the term Byzantine. @@manisdd

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3/4ths of the Mongol regions converted to Islam and later went on to create empires like the Mughals in India, Golden Horde in Russia, and the Timurids in Central Asia

[@kingconstantinusthesadisti133]

You must be naive to think timur are islamic warrior. He killed millions muslim & try to made allies with crusader

[@Storm-1.]

Yeah and like the rest of the muslims they also had big slave trade killd tousends of inocennt people and where no Match for the europeans.

[@salehalmandeel4374]

@@kingconstantinusthesadisti133 he actually didn’t side with crusaders and he was actually a prominent Muslim, but he was still killing people at the same time he forcefully converted people to lslam

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​@@salehalmandeel4374No he is an infidel heretic

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The same fate is waiting for all the haters out there.

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Events are explained in a very dramatic style which is really captivating. I like your style of presentation

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20:50 Ayeeeeee there's where my love of this period got started (Little later but Assassin's Creed really got me going)

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Been waiting for this

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Awesome video as always, never fails to deliver. Would love to see a series that follows the Mongol Empire in future.

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Simply epic as always, thank you ehtv!

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It is amazing. The only thing I would say is that this era needs more than two videos to cover at least as the Napoleonic era. In addition, I encourage to post more videos 🙏

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If only I could travel in time to see the golden age of Islam

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You would bring modern diseases with you and kill your ancestors, preventing yourself from being born. 😄 Besides, they will think you're dressed funny, and you would miss the internet, to share your 9th century adventures with your peers on social media. The golden age of modern man is not that bad, and we are living in it. And we can see video's about Golden Ages as much as we like.

[@biscolataman]

The reason that the Türks and other Turkic nomads were formidable warriors was that they were horse-archers. A horse-archer specifically denotes a mounted warrior armed with a bow who can shoot from horseback while riding. The Turkic nomadic warriors as well as the Mongols used the composite bow, which was made of horn, wood, and sinew. The composite bow was more accurate and had a better range and rate of fire than muskets and early firearms. The tactical principles of the Turkic horse-archers were based on the combination of fire power and mobility. yhe nomadic horse-archers shot in volleys, weakening the enemy before they charged. Ideally, they practiced "fire power in movement" like modern armies.Other things being equal, the horse-archers were often almost unbeatable on the open battlefields. Against them, sedentary soldiers were often helpless until the development of efficient battlefield handguns, including the repeating firearms (the firearms that could be fired repeatedly before being manually reloaded) in the seventeenth century.

[@hunterthompson6737]

horse archers were amazing but they were not effective enough against crusader knights.

[@TtotheCizzel]

@@hunterthompson6737 A mobile mounted army would never have to fight them.

[@wael4070]

​@@hunterthompson6737the mongols...

[@swasg3129]

Those were sakas not turkic

[@hasnan7]

@@hunterthompson6737 they were very effective against crusders knights. They were lightning fast and noone could catch them so of course they circle around the armies and attack any weak spots or just fast attacks and retreat.

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[@shareefalshureify2940]

Thank you very much for the video. Indeed, the Mongols destroyed what was one of the greatest civilizations that ever emerged. Point to note, there were many more incidents in between. As a Muslim, I hope that Muslims come together and show the world how great we can be. I suggest you do a follow-up video on how the Mongols were stopped by the Mamluks. Also, I suggest you do a video about Salahuddin who freed Jerusalem. Best.

[@jasoncropley5334]

I would love to see a series on the Rise & Fall of the Mongols.

[@McJibbin]

Amazing Video as always!!

[@artinrahideh1229]

Ma'mun is probably the best caliph from a persian point of view(excluding the shi'a). His mother was of iranic origin and he trusted his army to Tahir dhul-yaminayn, a persian who effectively won him his throne. As a result Ma'mun made him the governor of Khorasan and he established the first persian dynasty of islamic era Persia. From this point onwards persian intermezzo started to flourish. The earliest of persian poets writing poems in Farsi(rather than arabic) is from this era.

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God the music in the beginning and ending of the video is something else❤

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Thank you epic history .

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i love how good narrators voice is

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Been waiting for this one. I knew little of Islamic history prior to part 1 and I had to resist the urge to spoil this video for myself over the last few months. Great series as always. Cheers to EpicHistoryTV!

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This is just too good!

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Excellent editing and pacing as usual. Thanks !

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Epichistory TV, real time history and the history Chap all release videos in the same day. What an amazing day to be a history buff!

[@The88Cheat]

The Mongol destruction of Baghad is such an interesting and tragic story. I also HIGHLY recommend History Dose's video on this topic. The sound design coupled with the oil paintings really brings the event to life in a captivating way. I've actually watched it multiple times.

[@biscolataman]

From the beginning the Turks were noted for their superior military qualities, which seem to have lain mainly in their use of mounted bowmen and the nomadic speed of their cavalry. From this time on the Caliphs relied to an increasing extent on Turkish troops and commanders, to the detriment of the older cultured peoples in Islam, the Arabs and the Persians. The progressive militarization of the regime increased their strength. By the eleventh century the Turks were entering the world of Islam, not only as individuals recruited by capture or purchase, but by the migration of whole tribes of free nomadic Turks still organized in their own traditional way.

[@عليياسر-ذ5ب]

The caliphs caused their end because of these

[@6k_627]

Right on time after work , now I’m eating dinner.Salutations brother

[@abdurahman90982]

Thanks for this incredible video ,would love to see epic history tv do a series on early Muslims expansion including the legendary general khalid bin walid sword of God like you guys done for napoleon

[@gillettecaleb9]

Best series on historical times I've ever seen. You should do a series on Ghengis Khan and the Mongols!

[@Ealdorman_of_Mercia]

Absolutely fascinating, so much to learn here, thank you.