What did Medieval Muslims Think of Ancient Egypt | Al Muqaddimah

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Citations:
[1] Al-Muqadasi, Shams Al-Din (d. 985). Ahsan Al-Taqasim fi Ma’rifat Al-Aqalim.
[2] The Arab Conquest Of Egypt And The Last Thirty Years Of The Roman Dominion by Alfred J. Butler
[3] Stories of the Prophets: Illustrated Manuscripts of Qisas al-Anbiya by Rachel Milstein, Karin Ruhrdanz, and Barbara Schmitz
[4] Sahih Ibn Hibban: 361
[5] Sahih al-Bukhari: 7363
[6] Al-Balawi, Sirat Ahmad ibn Tulun: 118
[7] Al-Mas’udi, Muruj Al-Dhahab wa Ma’adin Al-Jawhar
[8] Al-Suyuti, Kitab Husn Al-Muhadarah fi Tarikh Misr wa Al-Qahirah
[9] Al-Maqrizi, Kitab Al-Mawa’iz wa Al-I’tbar fi Dhikr Al-Khitat wa Al-Athar
[10] Sa’id al-Andalusi, Kitab Tabaqat al-umam
[11] Al-Maqrizi, Kitab Al-Mawa’iz wa Al-I’tbar fi Dhikr Al-Khitat wa Al-Athar: 117
[12] Abu Mash’ar al-Balkhi, Al-Uluf fi Byut Al-Ibadat
[13] Al-Mas’udi, Muruj Al-Dhahab wa Ma’adin Al-Jawhar: 1-304
[14] Ibn Abd al-Hakam, Futuh: 40-41
[15] Ibn Hunain, Tarikh al-Atibba wa al-Falsifa
[16] Al-Jildaki, Kitab al-Durr al-Maknun fi Sharh Qasidat Dhi al-Nun al-Misri
[17] Al-Baghdadi, Kitab al-Ifadah wa al-I’tibar fir al-’Umour al-Mushahadah wa al-Hawadith al-Mu’ayanah bi-Ard Misr
[18] al-Idrisi, Anwar ‘ulwiyy al-Ajram fi al-Kashf ‘an Asrar al-Ahram : 39
[19] al-Idrisi, Anwar ‘ulwiyy al-Ajram fi al-Kashf ‘an Asrar al-Ahram : 38
[20] Al-Mas’udi, Muruj Al-Dhahab wa Ma’adin Al-Jawhar: 1:376
[21] Michael Cooperson, The Reception of Pharaonic Egypt in Islamic Egypt
[22] al-Idrisi, Anwar ‘ulwiyy al-Ajram fi al-Kashf ‘an Asrar al-Ahram: 65-66
[23] Ibn al-Nadim, al-Fihrist
[24] Be Smart, The Dark Origins of the Scientific Method
[25] Okasha El-Daly, Egyptology: The Lost Millenium: 65
[26] al-Idrisi, Anwar ‘ulwiyy al-Ajram fi al-Kashf ‘an Asrar al-Ahram & al-Qalqashandi, Kitab Subh al-A’sha fi Sina’at al-Insha
[27] Ibn Wahshiyah, Kitab Shauq al-Mustaham fi Ma’irfat Rumuz al-Aqlam
[28] Dhu al-Nun al-Misri, Hall al-Rumuz was Bar’ al-Asqam fi Kashf ‘Ulum Usul Lughat al-Aqlam
[29] Ayyub ibn Maslama, al-Talismat al-Kahiniya
[30] Al-Mas’udi, Muruj Al-Dhahab wa Ma’adin Al-Jawhar: 1-360
[31] Abu al-Qasim al-Iraqi, Kitab al-Aqalim al-Sab’ah & Abu al-Qasim al-Iraqi, Kitab Hall al-Rumuz was Fak al-Aqlam
[32] Otto Kurz, Mamluk Heraldry and Interpretatio Christiana
[33] Al-Balawi, Sirat Ahmad ibn Tulun: 76
[34] Nasir Khusraw, Safarnama: 129
[35] Al-Baghdadi, Kitab al-Ifadah wa al-I’tibar fir al-’Umour al-Mushahadah wa al-Hawadith al-Mu’ayanah bi-Ard Misr: 111
[36] Mummies & Magic by D’Auria, S, P Lacovara, and C Roehrig
[37] Al-Maqrizi, Kitab Al-Mawa’iz wa Al-I’tbar fi Dhikr Al-Khitat wa Al-Athar: 1-110
[38] MS Arabe 2764: Folio 49a
[39] Ibn Abd al-Hakam, Futuh: 87
[40] Okasha El-Daly, Egyptology: The Lost Millenium: 83
[41] Al-Maqrizi, Kitab Al-Mawa’iz wa Al-I’tbar fi Dhikr Al-Khitat wa Al-Athar: 1:333
[42] al-Idrisi, Anwar ‘ulwiyy al-Ajram fi al-Kashf ‘an Asrar al-Ahram: 151
[43] Mummy as a Drug by Warren R. Dawson
[44] Al-Maqrizi, Kitab Al-Mawa’iz wa Al-I’tbar fi Dhikr Al-Khitat wa Al-Athar: 1:183-85
[45] al-Zohri, Kitab al-Jughrafyiah: 47
[46] Al-Baghdadi, Kitab al-Ifadah wa al-I’tibar fir al-’Umour al-Mushahadah wa al-Hawadith al-Mu’ayanah bi-Ard Misr: 116
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[@miketacos9034]

Can we take a minute to appreciate how many citations Al-Muqaddimah puts in his videos? 👏

[@waleedkhalid7486]

I will take 2 minutes!

[@d7home2129]

Citations are meaningless without nuance understanding. This guy claimed that idrees the prophet mentioned in quran started appearing in literature in the 10th century! A 7 year old Muslim kid would know this is false

[@El-Dorado930]

Yes, you can take a minute to appreciate how many citations Al-Muqaddimah puts in his videos. Thanks for asking my permission.

[@Kolesha]

​@@d7home2129He doesn't even say صلى الله عليه وسلم after mentioning the prophet. That says enough about his credibility.

[@e.matthews]

​@@KoleshaHow does that have anything to do with scholastic credibility?

[@noushadansari68]

"Man fears Time , yet Time fears the Pyramids" - Arab Proverb-

[@ummerfarooq5383]

Meanwhile عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ:"قَالَ اللَّهُ: يَسُبُّ بَنُو آدَمَ الدَّهْرَ، وَأَنَا الدَّهْرُ، بِيَدِي اللَّيْلُ وَالنَّهَارُ"رواه البخاري (وكذلك مسلم) On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Allah said: Sons of Adam inveigh against [the vicissitudes of] Time, and I am Time, in My hand is the night and the day (1). (1) As the Almighty is the Ordainer of all things, to inveigh against misfortunes that are part of Time is tantamount to inveighing against Him. It was related by al-Bukhari (also by Muslim). Hadith 4, 40 Hadith Qudsi

[@user-rl8hf8kt1r]

​@@ummerfarooq5383what?

[@SergeiMosin]

This video does a phenomenal job of underlining how the various invasions of Egypt both eroded and evolved Egyptian culture over the millennia that the area was occupied. It's often tempting to think of ancient cultures as these static things that popped into existence one day and just sort of continued until they didn't. It's very easy to forget how heavily they were influenced by other cultures and, to borrow a somewhat unrelated saying "No culture was an island", even in the earliest days.

[@westwarden5979]

I am not muslim but your videos are very educating, thank you

[@heathdionne7717]

me neither, but it's interesting and enlightening to get a perspective on history that's often ignored (or even misrepresented) in western historical traditions

[@bricktea3645]

It's all Persian, nothing to do with Islam,the smart people were under Islamic conquest

[@everthealtruist]

If you only subscribe to one source of teaching and enlightenment, you're doing yourself a massive disservice. Spiritual growth is owning the buffet.

[@UMAIRRAJA90]

You are on wrong channel if you want to learn Religion and Islamic history.

[@westwarden5979]

@@everthealtruist Couldn't agree more 👍

[@dargon1084]

I always wondered how Medieval Arab peoples interacted on Ancient Egypt but the sources on these these are so few and far between and hard to get at. You sir literally compiled it in one neat and easy-to-understand video. Amazing!

[@samnatt9812]

Egypt was under Greek occupation, there was no ancient Egypt in the 7th century

[@stejabrayaga]

​@@samnatt9812no ancient Egypt before when? 😂 The Land of Kem is more than 3 thousand years old.

[@BGpomakTR]

​@@samnatt9812greek elites were their rulers...greeks were exchanged by arabs.

[@rehanakhtar6801]

​@@samnatt9812retarded statement

[@Fwam95]

Not a Muslim but enjoy your educational content.

[@nourahmed-sh2ox]

History is history after all

[@ABBZ120]

@@geoshit4580true, but many in the comments here are trying if it goes against their world view, faith or understanding

[@Tinil0]

Just caught your video randomly from the algorithm and am impressed. Muslim history isn't very widely taught here in the US (A shame since for hundreds of years the Islamic world was THE bastion of scholarship!) so this is a fantastic repository, and your sources are incredible. You have a new subscriber for sure, I can't wait to learn more.

[@moelozofo9780]

Because the US has its own history. If you want to learn about Muslim history go search it up and read more about it. It’s not the US job to teach your culture.😂

[@Tinil0]

@@moelozofo9780 Uh, I'm not Muslim, it's not "my" culture. And you apparently don't have much education yourself or you would realize that history that is covered in school is more than just American history.

[@Gintoki7]

Westerners suppress history. It’s ancient Egypt, Babylonia etc big gap of nothing then colonialism. They do not want Muslim history to be spread.

[@SetuwoKecik]

​@@moelozofo9780 Despite muricans keeps invading middle eastern countries over and over again?

[@riaa8689]

America began as a Christian civilization. So why would Islam be something widely taught? Is Christianity widely taught in Islamic countries?

[@JessikahElise]

First of all, I love this channel and your videos! Secondly as someone who is trying to learn Arabic I really appreciate when you put the names of people and places in Arabic script! And thirdly, it's nice to put a face to the voice!

[@himanshusharma5429]

It's Very Great to watch Islamic History. When Mostly My Fellow Indian And Hindus Are High on their Nationalist OR Hypthetotical Past.

[@_Abdussalama]

Well done. You should have noted that there is some differences between the stories about Egypt in the Qur'an and the Bible. While the Bible speaks of Pharoah in relation to both Moses and Joseph, the Qur'an only speaks of a Pharoah in relation to Musa while describing the leader at the time of Yusuf as a king.

[@sonofzahid]

Spot on

[@miaya3898]

I wouldn't read King James if I were you. Only Greek Septuagint and and the 2 next oldest.

[@Desertfox8902]

It is true that the Qur’an describes the ruler during the reign of our master Joseph as the king.... and the ruler during the reign of our master Moses as the pharaoh

[@AzelVonAzrael]

Which is a mind-blowing fact if you think about it long enough

[@beedo4850]

@@Desertfox8902yes it is you can look up the surah in a translated quran or just write" surah yussif translated" and you can see for yourslef

[@briansmith9439]

Great doc. I'm working on a book now about Amr ibn al-As and it was great to see you use a pic of his mosque at the start. Regarding mummia, it was listed as a drug in the Merck Manual of the late 1880s-early 1890s in the US. It has also been said that so many mummies were brought into the US that many were used as fuel for locomotives. And lastly, in US meat markets, especially in the East, meat was wrapped, and still is, in a light brown paper that allegedly had its origins with the same mummy craze you mentioned. So many had been imported that the mummy wrappings, mostly brown in color, were being used to wrap meats. That tradition remains in practice in many shops, though the source has (hopefully) changed. Every time I buy meat, I am grateful to see it wrapped in white paper because I do not have to concern myself with the question "Am I eating mummy-wrapped meat?" - LOL.

[@AlMuqaddimahYT]

That's fascinating, I didn't know that about the brown bags. Thank you for sharing that.

[@atenmohammed]

that's so disgusting, I'm so upset to hear how my ancestors' bodies were descrated in this way and in some cases turned into paint.

[@koolaidblack7697]

The part about wrapping food in mummy wrappings sounds downright impossible to believe. Are you sure it wasn't yellow journalism or a straight up joke from the time period?

[@saratmodugu2721]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@AlMuqaddimahYThey Al-muquaddima , are you thinking about about possible pre-columbian Muslim contact with America? A lot of people would be curious

[@MahmoodAlGhanimi]

Your videos never disappoint.

[@AlMuqaddimahYT]

Thank you!

[@Gehri_soch2.0]

​​​​@@AlMuqaddimahYT 4th source isn't reliable as it contains Ibrahim bin Hisham Al-Ghassani who isn't reliable and is called a liar by some such as Abu Hatim And Imam Dhahabi says he is matrouk(discarded) But rather you can use surah 16:36

[@G-hg9ff]

@@AlMuqaddimahYT ancient egypt has many connections to abrahamic religions people dont realise its good to study history of the past and learn from the mistakes or positive parts great video

[@martincanela848]

Dude, I just discovered your channel and can easily say that this is one of my favorite youtube videos ever. Currently studying ancient egypt in my history career. This video couldn´t come in better timing. You do a wonderful job researching and presenting such complicated yet interesting topic. I´m hoping to investigate medieval islam soon. Keep doing these wonderful work. Greetings from Argentina!

[@faizan_ukk]

Okay... now imagine what was destroyed in the House of Wisdom by Mongols... THERE MAY HAVE BEEN SO MUCH KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THISSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[@magma9000]

❤❤

[@LoudWaffle]

Much like the destruction of Alexandria's library, while it is a tragedy it is highly unlikely that much valuable knowledge was lost permanently. It was probably mostly mundane stuff (still useful for understanding day-to-day life though), stuff that had copies elsewhere, or stuff which was referenced or summarized in other surviving texts. Remember that the scribal culture was big in the historical world; if a text is popular and seen as valuable, wealthy people were commissioning scribes to create copies, which were then spread around the world. I'm sure there was still a lot of knowledge lost in the House of Wisdom, but I want to caution people away from thinking something silly like human progress being significantly set back by this (if anything it was set back by the damage done to middle eastern civilization, the displacement of people, and the destruction of Baghdad as a trade hub).

[@harharharharharharharharha240]

Still salty about it Fr 😒😔😔😔

[@Yatagurusu]

​@@LoudWaffle However you fail to take into account small copies are far more unlikely to survive and be found than a libary being maintained. Yes at the destruction of the library maybe there were other texts written and kept, but now that baghdad is destroyed, and the muslim lands are in chaos, whose going to maintain and continue to copy every single book? It only takes 100 years for books in that age to decay if it is not properly kept. Usually big libararies will hire hundreds of scribes to maintain their collection. And also do not forget their may have been works in their original language. Baghdads house of knowledge had been picking up books since before Islam (Library of Khuzraw was absorbed into Baghdad). Theres so many details and translational mistakes that could occur. On top of that. Things like accounts of daily lives and transactions are soooooo valuable, moreso than you imagine. If you have enough of those you can track the economy of an empire.

[@Alghi451]

Retaliate for that to mongolians

[@micahistory]

what a super interesting topic to cover. Never saw anyone do this before. Great job man, I loved this video!

[@thomasrealdance]

Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video, it was great to follow and very informative and educational, I enjoyed learning so much more. Internet and social media content at their best!

[@user-xr3dr8xm1i]

The most captivating and well-made video I've seen on KZbin in a very long while. Medieval Muslim perception of Anicent Egypt was a subject I've wanted to learn more about ever since I'd learned about "Islamic Golden Age". Looking forward for more similar content. 👏👏

[@tytytytyty811]

This is gonna send me down a rabbit hole of Islamic history. So cool.

[@grimble4564]

It's well worth your time. I'm not Muslim but Islamic history is so intertwined with medieval European, African, and Asian history that I'd argue you can't really understand them without having some basic familiarity with Islam.

[@napoleonfeanor]

@@grimble4564 Yes, I don't like Islam and the political issues related it in our time. Nevertheless, one has to respect the curiosity, hard work and inventions of the people in the medieval Islamic world. It is also impossible to understand European history without understanding the interaction with them.

[@danielbarry5547]

Europeans and Arabics learned everything from Africans

[@napoleonfeanor]

@@danielbarry5547 lol tell your fairy tales somewhere else.

[@danielbarry5547]

@@napoleonfeanor lol they even say it

[@theepicone1]

Amazing content my friend. Thank you so much for your efforts, as a non arabic reader / speaker I think to find the knowledge you've passed on to me in this video would be a near impossible endeavour. Really fantastic stuff, kudos wa shukran

[@abduld]

this is one of my favorite egypt related videos on youtube. great work bro

[@HereticalKitsune]

Very fascinating video, loved it! Thanks for the reserach and sharing it with us!

[@Stoneworks]

I enjoyed this video a lot. Granted, I did not watch it but listened to it as I did other things, but this amount of depth and detail into a relatively niche topic grabbed and kept my attention the entire time. Good work, I hope you make more like this.

[@mariocaso6186]

Great work here! An absolutely fascinating topic!

[@justinajones3000]

What a great "KZbin Suggestion". This man presented an important historical junction (the Great Dynasties with the Copts and Muslims) in an easy to understand format. His speech was perfectly paced and I learned a lot, too.

[@derluftbandiger9592]

Amazing! Video, we cannot thank you enough for your great work, mashaAllah. Keep it up!

[@hasnatjarral9357]

Well researched intellectually compiled and wonderfully articulated..cheers bro

[@vaylon1701]

Thank you! That was so informative.

[@curtisdaniel9294]

Fascinating! Thank you for doing this video. I will be watching others of yours.

[@toprope_]

Some of the romantic aesthetic Egypt was also seen in Britain once it became a European empire’s holding after a long, long time. A lot of the interest in the pyramids, mummies, and more had different conclusions, but it seems like Egyptology as it’s known now has been a regular occurrence for peoples who come to control Egypt.

[@ahmedanubis]

Great video!👏👏👏👏 Most Egyptian traditions, culture, and magic practices, especially in rural Egypt, were simply Christianized or Islamized but centuries of relative cultural isolation(in Greco-Roman and Byzantine Egypt) was the catalyst to Egyptians forgetting their history(with rare exceptions of heavy oral Tradition), it is worth noting that only 5% of ancient Egyptians were considered the elites and scribes, meaning that 95% could not read or write and were average farmers and laborers up until the Tulunid & Fatimid renaissances due to the increase of the kottab(madrassas) and the 18th century(due to mohamed ali's reforms) where there was a spike in literacy. Dr. fawzeya haykal had an awesome lecture on YT named Egyptian cultural continuity on that topic you might like it.

[@poorindiansanddogsarenotal1276]

Ancient Egyptians the elites the ruling class were somalis from the land of punt current day somali

[@napoleonfeanor]

Is that a somali version of we wuz kangz? AE were more close to Levantine than modern Egyptians.

[@poorindiansanddogsarenotal1276]

@@napoleonfeanor sadly dna genetics language culture all denies your claim. The Pharoahs themselves used to say puntland was their original homeland. And I have seen even Lebanese friend who told me that even the ancient levantine were not pale like the ones in Levant today. I bet you think the ancient Babylonians and the current Iraqis are related 😂

[@poorindiansanddogsarenotal1276]

@@napoleonfeanor majority of the modern levantine were slaves from Europe brought by the Islamic caliphate then they were arabised and were converted to muslim and now they're Muslims atleast majority of them. The modern levantine have nothing to do with the ancient levantines. If the current levantines are the true natives then the Ashkenazi jews or anyone who claiming that Palestine or israel is theirs then that is true too because it is easy to say we are the natives but when it comes to reality it is a different story

[@roylle6346]

​@@napoleonfeanorwonder why Egyptians never called the levant land of the gods 😂. Nor did they Revere any part of the levant nor had any of levantine soldiers in their army like how Kushites were mercenaries for them. The Egyptians deitified their Kings/forefathers, so why was the levant NOT Land Of The Gods?

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One of my favorite history channels I've come across! Thanks for all your hard work!

[@comradecat3678]

this video is very nicely edited, and an extremely interesting topic!!! definitely checking more of your videos out!

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Its criminal you dont have more subscribers. Neutral point of view, cited, and imformative. Definitely subscribed and excited to watch the rest of your content

[@melissamybubbles6139]

I'd never thought about this topic before but it's fascinating. Thank you.

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I just found your channel from Overly Sarcastic Productions’ video on Ibn Khaldun, and I’m glad I did! Everything I’ve watched so far has been well-made, well-sourced, and fascinating to learn about.

[@ianwestwick4381]

Excellent video. Looking fwd to watching more.

[@omarkomiha9429]

This video is of an amazing quality. Thank you!

[@JohnnyWalker-kq7ds]

And yet the truth isn't in it, nothing but whitewash falsehood propaganda Arab style.

[@magma9000]

You are always there to make my day

[@faizan_ukk]

Another great video! Keep it up

[@mayefulvazmanzur2899]

Great video, thank you for sharing the info. Cheers.

[@schneider.felipe]

Finding your channel made my day! I've been fascinated by ancient Egypt since I was a small kid. Not a Muslim, but I definitely appreciated the perspective of the Arab Muslims on Egypt, being a theme we often only look from European perspective nowadays. Plus points for the nose breaker, that small detail in the video made me smile 😊. You just won a subscriber. Greetings from 🇧🇷.

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Finally, got to see you. Thank you for all the wonderful and informative videos. It helps me better understand your religion. I love from India. ❤

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Discovered this channel recently and I really enjoy it, the videos are really solid and well researched.

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Great choice of topics, awesome concept and excellent narration!

[@sebastiant1577]

first time watching a video from your channel, it was very interesting and looks well researched. Thanks for this knowledge xd

[@faisalabadpuchtahai2204]

This was an absolutely lovely video! I hope you make more videos about this kind of subject (how did medieval Muslims think about other ancient sites/cultures now under their rule)

[@icenarsin5283]

Amazing work - As always!

[@FalseNomen]

Interesting topic for a video, thanks!

[@unusualhistorian1336]

Another excellent documentary!

[@noma5050]

Absolutely no mummy smoothies for me! Thank you for your work. It is wonderful to hear something of the views of Egypt from another cultural perspective. 👏

[@nawab-e-trivandrum5526]

Really good video. Informative

[@mylesjude233]

Awesome video mate 📹 ❤ Hope you do another similar video about how medieval Muslims viewed Rome 🇮🇹

[@gemsamaa]

Bravo! I am also a great student of history and had developed an interest for Ancient Egypt or Khamit (Kemet) many years ago. I also recently read Destiny Disrupted because I wanted to gain a good understanding of Islamic history and it has filled in a lot of gaps. I applaud your work. It definitely sheds light on area not taken into consideration in popular historical endeavors. I especially like the part about that mentioned a possible connection or affinity between Sufism and Kemetic spiritual practice it is an area I have recently been pondering and would definitely like to know more about. I was recently in Tunis where I visit recently visited Sidi Abd AL Aziz. However, it was closed that particular day. Anyhow I would love to chat with your person one of these days.

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Love this channel. Seriously everything you put out is soo interesting.

[@yj9032]

Excellent video. Very informative.

[@ayaabdelaziz4141]

Very fascinating video and new things to learn on my end, and I am Egyptian. Thank you for the intersting information! 💯

[@JohnnyWalker-kq7ds]

So the Arab were color blind not seeing the Ethiopians, Kushites, Nubians who are the original indigenous ancient Egyptians. Amazing, all none black posters seem to leave out the black people until they want to use the word Sub-Saharan. This video is only hear-say. I guess they themselves forget were originally black!

[@hannanada9542]

​@@JohnnyWalker-kq7ds The Ancient Egyptians were not black for the same reason European are white because they moved away from East Africa to the North faraway from the Equator about 65,000 years ago. # Tracing the route of modern human out of Africa by using human genome sequence from Ethiopians and Egyptians. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4457944/

[@Jamiev8420]

​@@hannanada9542So only people living in below the equator are black, right? 😅😅 Why do we have dark skin in places like Paupa New Guinea, Fiji and other Oceania indigenous people?

[@thanos7715]

Even though many traditions from the ancient Egyptians still live today, the loss of our language was detrimental. Overall Egyptians throughout the medieval era knew their land was unique with its splendor and history. Groups like the Ottomans actually shamed Egyptians for their connection and labeled them as ahl firaun (people of the pharaoh of moses). Thankfully Egyptians today are starting to rediscover their history.

[@Hungblackboi]

Good

[@skp8748]

It was shameful though.. they didn't know anything most Egyptians were illiterate serf class the elites had been systematically killed or cooped by MAAANNNY empires.

[@aymanhasan-2991]

we did not "lose" our Language, its still lives today with in the Egyptian Dialect

[@thanos7715]

@@aymanhasan-2991 but we did tho, I u understand the Egyptian dialect is unique to Egypt but it’s a dialect of Arabic not the Egyptian language. Isa we will revive it.

[@Rynewulf]

@@thanos7715I think they mean that Egyptian Arabic is non standard because of all the influences from Ancient Egyptian and later Coptic. Which is pretty plausible since Coptic itself even has whole letters from Ancient Egyptian and all of them are Semtic languages so distantly related enough to blend. Kind of like how English still has a lot of Scandinavian words

[@HealerTheMaroon]

Your video composition is phenomenal.

[@OingoBoingo--nice]

Real cool video. Can’t believe I’ve never seen this channel before, awesome stuff.

[@atiq910]

One of the finest youtuber from Pakistan.❤

[@HammadKhan-tl6bb]

Former india tho 😅😊

[@magma9000]

​@@HammadKhan-tl6bbbruh

[@mas-udal-hassan9277]

​@@HammadKhan-tl6bb The Hindu hate you

[@LoudWaffle]

@@HammadKhan-tl6bb what is even the point of this comment...

[@blacksheep6174]

​@@HammadKhan-tl6bb endia ! A former British colony

[@nekhlioudovbolkonsky2901]

Your video is very informative. Great job, from a catholic. May peace and thuth reign in our world.

[@JohnnyWalker-kq7ds]

Too bad the information isn't correct, never seen such falsehood video as this. Just more forms o whitewashing ancient Egypt.

[@ellaeadig263]

Your channel is really fascinating, so much history here I haven't had the chance to learn anywhere else.

[@MehreenWaseem-vn6yq]

This channel is very underrated, you deserve 1M subscribers.

[@Charlie-502]

I love this video. I'm Muslim and I been to Egypt twice

[@Sheikhina]

Great content! Hope to see more about alchemy and Sufi connections.

[@cygnusprime6728]

Very well researched and interesting. This offers a great insight into that time period.

[@francofazzolari7973]

Beautifull video. Really great quality

[@hglundahl]

13:39 Reminds me of how Malmöhus Slott (Malmö Castle) was built. The walls of the castle were built from stones of Churches destroyed in the Reformation.

[@kingveetee]

Great content. I love history, and hence the algorithm helped me find you. Liked and subscribed.

[@alsanishat8520]

Really fascinating video!

[@franciscolomeli8931]

Can you do one on how people like the Mongols converted to Islam after the empire fell apart?

[@The-Commentator]

I was wondering about the what Muslims in the past thought about pyramids. A great video!

[@JohnnyWalker-kq7ds]

This video is propaganda and lies.

[@nazmul_khan_]

@@JohnnyWalker-kq7dswhy don’t you take a walk, you’re clearly drunk on Johnny Walker

[@superdonkhalil]

amazing! love this type of content very educated and enlightening

[@ahmedaitsalah]

thank you so much for your work

[@miketacos9034]

10:43 I can’t believe Al Muqaddimah would dare deny Ancient India’s contributions to the Finno-Korean Hyperwar 😤

[@SWOTHDRA]

Those hindu nationalist are more true to themselves then this punjab who wants to be arab.....

[@alishahwaiz92]

Brilliant ❤

[@fatalfury66]

I really enjoy your videos. They are very informative And I look forward to each one

[@jmalko9152]

Fascinating, thank you ❤️

[@sooofisticated0499]

As a non-Muslim who has read the Koran a few times and who has lived amongst Muslims and found their hospitality second to none, I must say I appreciate these videos from the perspective of Islam. In these videos you touch upon the sacred commandment of Mohammed that the “people of the book“ shall be treated with respect. It’s hard for a lot of people today to believe it, but that’s just because they’re so thoroughly propagandized, Islam holds Jews and Christians in high regard.

[@TetrahedronIX]

Declining Christian and Jewish populations in the majority Muslim countries says different. Coptic Christians in Egypt would not agree with you, Christians in Pakistan would not agree with you, Christians in Iraqi ( if there are any left) would not agree with you.

[@sooofisticated0499]

@@TetrahedronIX Yes I know Coptic Christians here in Miami Florida, they don’t agree with me on anything, we still do business though. 💰💶💳💲😉😉😉

[@sooofisticated0499]

@@TetrahedronIX As far as Christian and Jewish societies declining, I couldn’t agree more. When a society has it too good for too long, the only way to go forward is downward.

[@felixii4931]

@@TetrahedronIX That just shows how you are ignorant of the middle east. Those populations only declined in the 21st century. Especially jews who were terrorised by the uncivilised settlers from europe so they could empty the arab world from jews & move them over to isn'treal.

[@healthybangladesh8308]

@@sooofisticated0499 you sure are an interesting and intelligent person ;)

[@greensnake6943]

32:50 Kind of disappointed that you didn't use a picture of the story of Siavash from Shahnameh. Could be a cool easter egg since you share the name (Syawish).

[@nyarlantothep9555]

Exceptional video, thank you

[@Uzair_Of_Babylon465]

Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁👍

[@amitkumar-wj8gn]

There is a lot wrong with the world in 2023, but then, this is also the time when one lovely Pakistani/American (I assumed because your location once said Pakistan in the About section but you have an American accent) is teaching the world for free, in matters that have now become so polarised that for non-religious people like me it is becoming increasingly difficult to learn. Thank you Siwayish. Shukriya from your Indian brother. And yes, the Hindu nationalists make American conspiracy theorists look like sane people.

[@dankseid3793]

Hindu Nationalists give Muslim Nationalists a run for their money.

[@leaveme3559]

​@@______608naah he's living outside the country look at his room

[@theotherohlourdespadua1131]

I am sire he is Pakistani. No other people would know of India's absurd historical revisionism concerning heavier than air flight that their neighbors...

[@amitkumar-wj8gn]

@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 hahahahahahah....trust me, us indians live with the pain of bullshit masquerading as facts too. If there is one thing that will destroy all of Indian Sub Continent, it wil be religion.

[@dankseid3793]

@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 no. Pakistanis are not so well versed about Indian Political narratives.

[@ACHistory]

Fantastic video! Twas quite interesting to see how these new arrivals in Egypt looked around at these ancient walls and wondered. Another topic that I find really cool is Ibadi Islam. They claim to outdate both Sunni and Shia Islam, and I feel like most might not really know what that branch is all about.

[@AlMuqaddimahYT]

Recently scholarship on the Ibadis is really enlightening. I do plan on making a video about them soon.

[@hoplite723]

​@@AlMuqaddimahYTcould you do a video on al Andalus and how Moors brought certain fruits and other stuff never before seen in Europe

[@shotgunridersweden]

Thank you for a very enlightening video

[@paulverhaegh488]

Great video. Thanks.

[@AhmedHassan-yc5fb]

The modern obsession by Egyptian people for relating themselves to the Pharohs is a by product of the British empire and the creation of new states with controversial borders by the former colonizers. Indeed, nowdays, the people of Egypt would relate the the Pharohs rather their own common history with the other arab states in the region. They would argue that they are the descendants of the Pharohs and their country, Egypt, is simply a given. Such a shame. Source: am Egyptian

[@atenmohammed]

Foolish comment. Stop giving white supremacy such power to state that the primary reason modern Egyptians derive our motivation to understand our own history is because it is held highly by the West. What does understanding history have to do with modern borders? For the first time in 2500 years, Egyptians are self-governing and have an unobstructed view to understand ourselves. You must understand the significance of this, and support your fellow Egyptian in stitching together a 7000+ year old historical narrative, which includes our modern history of ~150 years.

[@AhmedHassan-yc5fb]

@@atenmohammed self identification is never related to governance. Egyptians relating to the Pharoahs is still a new phenomenum. I would argue it is a form of foreigners obsession (عقدة الخواجة). We take pride in the Pharohs due to the west's fascination with them and to self compensate for our continued and progressive dysfunction as a nation. To further reinforce my argument here are a couple of points. Firstly, Modern day Egyptians are as much related to the Pharohs as any person in Eurasia/Middle East. The Pharos are so old, that Cleopatra's time is closer to the landing on the moon than the building of the great pyramids. Secondly, the Pharaonic civilzation ruled in territories primarily in Upper Egypt (i.e. the south), mainly modern day Aswan and Sudan. Most of the Pharaonic pyramids actually exist in Sudan. Anecdotaly, when Nasser built the High Dam, a lot of nubian people who are arguably the closest people to the Pharaos and who took care of the monuments for centuries, were displaced and never resettled. There is an outsized population of Nubians living in Saudi Arabia due to that. There are a lot of things I could say, but for me while it is an honor that such a great civilization lived hear long ago, I do not relate to them at all. It is rather a responsibility take care of such monuments and to learn more about a society that lived so long ago they might as well be aliens from outer space. I find it far more important to identify with people of common heritage such as other arab countries and Amazighs and Nubians that live with us. It is fascinating that we accept the authority of terroristic foreigners (Zionists) over our people and piece of our land (Palestine). We would not accept that to pieces of Pharaonic history, yet we accept the former. Why is it that Europeans who fought and slaughtered each others for millenia, are now trading partners with open borders. While nowdays, arab countries have comprehensive borders with strict enforcements and insignificant intratrading. Frankly, that is stupid and indicative of the west's influence on our self-perceeption. Lastly, I have no idea where do you relate my comment to white supermacy.

[@qadarinimo258]

@@AhmedHassan-yc5fbrealist Egyptian I’ve ever seen

[@MrMysticphantom]

Man, you mentioned the Persians and persian muslims retrofitting the stories and culture to islamic themes.... dude.... you cant just leave it like that now... Now you gotta cover that as a dedicated video topic

[@jacobvardy]

Really fascinating. Thank you.

[@noneofyourbusiness3288]

Very interesting. I am glad to have stumbled across your channel. :)

[@singam7436]

I can't help but wonder how history might have changed if the Arabs were able to fully figure out hieroglyphs (maybe if they found the Rosetta Stone or another stone with that same texts). So much knowledge could have been gotten much earlier.

[@mohamedelhaddade6371]

Well according to a lot of Arabic historians..the arabs where able to desipher a lot of hieroglyphics..what was the extend of that knowledge..am not really sure!

[@JohnnyWalker-kq7ds]

If all the Europeans and Arabs didn't invade those ancient black Egyptians we'll now understand what the ancient Egyptians hieroglyphs meant sooner. The great Sphinx and the valley o the kings tell us all we need to know, they were a total black civilization with Nubian men and Ethiopian wives. Ethiopia, Cush/Sudan was actually ancient Egypt. Now they're three countries.

[@atenmohammed]

@@JohnnyWalker-kq7ds so their blackness would've taught them how to read hieroglyphics? 😂🤦‍♂ Language doesn't pass by skin color, crazy that I have to explain that. Also worth noting that hieroglyphs were only understood by a small minority of rulers. The vast majority of Egyptians were illiterate. It was a deeply hierarchical society. You are embarrassing yourself. Keep your prejudice to yourself.

[@hannanada9542]

​@@JohnnyWalker-kq7ds The Ancient Egyptians were not black for the same reason European are white because they moved away from East Africa to the North faraway from the Equator about 65,000 years ago. # Tracing the route of modern human out of Africa by using human genome sequence from Ethiopians and Egyptians. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4457944/

[@Sssseeeeyyyba.7452]

@@hannanada9542out of Africa theory has been debunked there are human skeletons in Greece older than your theory would have allowed

[@dev0ur408]

Great video! I've been strongly fascinated by Ancient Egypt since early childhood but I somehow never tried to find out how Arabs viewed Ancient Egypt.

[@limonynada007]

Im watching you from Spain, as a passionate from history, I can only say wow. Great content and impressive research on such interesting topic.

[@qaidikramuddin]

Thank you very much. This was very helpful. I've been thinking this month about where to find sources for pre-flood Egyptian history.

[@ricardogalvan1031]

It seems like the Islamic world went through the same process as the Christian: re-discovering Greek and Egyptian wisdom, developing romantic views of them (even to the point of imagining Aristotle as buried between a pyramid), as well as exploring alchemy, magic, and astrology.

[@bigbuckss4303]

There are too many people in the comments from the "we wuz kangz" crowd 💀💀💀

[@y.l7455]

The black washing idiots?

[@jamieammar6131]

That's really unfortunate. These mooks are spreading.

[@snakesnake6799]

Go back to the hive mind cultist.

[@arian1926]

Afarin! Super interesting material

[@mazzmarymaria]

Im so glad I found your channel

[@adityamohan1773]

A brilliant video. Great amount of research and thought has been put behind. I also liked the dig you took at what's happening in India right now. I'm staunchly against misinterpretations of old texts. It's like undermining their genius with modern stupidity. Well my doubt was, bronze age , when Egypt was at its height, had many warring countries, and Arabs were mercenaries in these wars. If oral stories from bronze age did make it to atleast pre Judeo Arabia, the Arabs would have faint recollections of all these fabulous bronze age cultures. But Arabs were never a homogenous bunch, were they?

[@midoabolila9532]

Can you do a video on the history of Art in the islamic civilization? Thank you 🙏