Women of the Abbasid Caliphate | Al Muqaddimah

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:43 Wives of the Caliphs
05:48 al-Khayzuran, wife of al-Mahdi
06:53 Zubayda, wife of Harun al-Rashid
08:31 Qabiha, mother of al-Mu'tazz
09:38 Shaghab, mother of al-Muqtadir
12:20 Princess Ulayya bint al-Mahdi
13:46 Palaces of Women
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[@AnnalOfHistory]

It's a shame that a lot of the information about important women throughout history have either been erased, or modified to such a degree that it's hard to tell what's truth at times. You created a fantastic video as always my friend.

[@yuchubeluvstabanmeh7213]

No you’re just a progressive Muslim

[@Xaviergonzalez85]

@Gg Ottomans banned the printing press. And muslims worship ottomans. 😔😔😔

[@KILLER.KNIGHT]

@@yuchubeluvstabanmeh7213 What’s that supposed to mean?

[@Arthorias.]

I am not muslim but i really like your videos and islamic history, congrats for your amazing work

[@thelordchancellor3454]

I’m a Norse/Slav Pagan and I love west Asian/Islamic History

[@vannakinder352]

Two girls made one of those opposite attracts video. One of them was a Norse pagan the other was a Muslim and the tag was extremist Catholics hating us. I appreciate you all not being one of those alt right weirdos I have to face on this app.

[@monkeymoment6478]

@@vannakinder352 Why is that you types always have to bring politics into things?

[@javiergonzalez-meeks9216]

Thank you so much for making and sharing this video. My MA thesis looked at the role of al-Khayzuran in comparison to Empress Theodora of the Byzantine Empire.

[@AlMuqaddimahYT]

I would love to read that. Can you send it to me at [e-mail], please?

[@lerneanlion]

Prophet Muhammad said that men and women are equals. But yet, those who descended from his uncle, Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, ended up disregarding the Prophet's teachings about equality for the sake of politics. This is one of few things I dislike about the Abbasid Caliphate. The Caliphate doesn't listen to orders from women... much.

[@barryirlandi4217]

Shia?

[@lerneanlion]

@@barryirlandi4217 No. I did not practice any Abrahamic religions.

[@omarhab3689]

@@lerneanlion if you are not Muslim why are talking good about the prophet ?

[@lerneanlion]

@@omarhab3689 Prophet Muhammad is one of the greatest leaders the world has ever seen. I have my rights to admire him. And so does Moses.

[@marwaosman4134]

Yeah agree abbasid caliphates didn't respect this zone of our religion and wrong still wrong💔 But on the bright side islamic abbasid time is not only about this there are more interesting sides as well

[@HistoryOfRevolutions]

اكتموا حسناتِكُم ، كما تكتمون سيئاتكم. - رابعة العدوية Hide your good deeds, as well as your bad. - Rabi'a Al Adawia (Female Scholar)

[@jacobblack1640]

Damn !!

[@thedstorm8922]

Its "hide your good deeds like you hide your bad deeds"

[@atxndemir2838]

@@thedstorm8922 much likely

[@abuandrewdeez3454]

Aaaaahhhhhh weird

[@skinniestjeans]

@@thedstorm8922 Its actually "Hide yo kids, hide yo wife...."

[@kucingcat8687]

Assalamualaikum bro, can you make a video about women of the early Muslims (The Prophet ﷺ's time, the Rashidun Caliphate and the Umayyads)?

[@jassi7355]

No that would be booring

[@kucingcat8687]

@@jassi7355 no lmao, they're much more assertive in politics and the social circle in general, so if anything it would be much more interesting

[@chief4923]

@@jassi7355 it may be for you but not for me, so ur opinion doesn't matter

[@CarneSagrado]

. I'm so glad I found this channel! You don't find this kind of info in the mainstream! .

[@ARTiculations]

Thanks for this video! I learned so much I didn't know before!

[@alexk7973]

so interesting to hear that many Caliphs weren‘t married. In the West, historically non-marital offsprings would never have been considered as heirs, at least not once christianity was established. Also marriages were very important for political alliances. Why do you think the Caliphs didn‘t use marriage in a similar way?

[@alexk7973]

An interesting case in the West is that of Charlemagne, who didn‘t marry off any of his daughters, because he didn‘t want to be bound to any other family by such an alliance (and possibly because he didn‘t think there was any family that was high status enough?) but instead he gave them as good an education as was available in the time (they were at least as well educated as their brothers, if not better) and he was completely ok with them taking lovers. It was only after his death, that his sons and heirs decided it was unseemly for women from the family of the „Holy Roman Empire“ to have extra-marital relationships and stuck them into convents as nuns.

[@AlMuqaddimahYT]

Interesting question. Early Caliphs married for alliances. However, later with their own mercenary or slave armies, they didn't need to make alliances with their vassals so, they didn't marry. Ottomans had a similar pattern. They too married early on for alliances but later stopped it after developing their own forces including the Janissaries.

[@AlMuqaddimahYT]

Ah! I didn't know that about Charlemagne. Late Abbasid Caliphs just married off their daughters to bureaucrats or family members rather than sending them outside the family too.

[@alexk7973]

thank you! I guess it makes sense that once you have established yourself as the supreme power, you don‘t want to give any other family the opportunity to work themselves up the ladder and become a threat to you. I believe one reason why marriage was held absolutely essential in the West was the influence of the church as a political power. You can see many restriction especially regarding marriage and family life with the growing power of the church throughout the earlier middle ages. But if I‘m correct (and please correct me if I‘m not!) there was no such self-organized, -administered and independent organization as the Vatican with the Pope and the Church within the muslim world?

[@AlMuqaddimahYT]

Well, the Caliph was sort of supposed to be the head of Islam but he didn't exercise that and left it to various schools of thought. Some of which did have Vatican-like structures but yeah, Islam as a whole doesn't have that.

[@SerafimRCabral]

Good video Mعtadid, I've enjoyed it pretty much, specially focusing on the women of the royal abbasid family, witch really give us an expression on women power on politics. It would also be interesting if you could make a part 2 of this video focusing on the cultural and scientific work of women in the Abbasid Empire. I don't know how much expression the ulama women did have on the Abbasid Empire, but I know that on the Almohad Empire there's a great expression of women not only on the corpus of the ulama but also on the classical sciences. I'll have to check if I've some papers in English to send to you. Thank you for the video sadiq.

[@kaskarkhan1]

Great Video Brother. I never knew all of this. Cheers Thank you

[@anasbelmont8945]

Great video as always

[@halam899live8]

Great video today keep it up your doing amazing job

[@ben-jam-in6941]

I decided to subscribe to this channel today after reading the “channel description” and a video or two. I thought I probably couldn’t find a better way to learn more about the history of the world of Islam than by watching a channel with a description like this one. Keeping things secular makes it easier for people who might come from a different religious background like myself to just enjoy the wonderful history of the Muslim world. I’m willing to say KZbin isn’t lacking in channels focused on Islamic teachings if it’s anything like the amount of Christian channels it’s a lot. Probably keeps some of the arguments at a minimum as well and we all can agree those comment sections with the least amount of arguments are the best 😊.

[@highlandcheesestick8402]

Good video as always! But say, can you make one on the lives of the average Abbasidian woman? Most of we know about women's lives are focused on the nobles and I'd like to see details on the commoners.

[@Theunknownpast_official]

Amazing video once again you showed us how important history is and also how female roles played in history as well. i think you should make this into a series about all important female figure roles in history

[@mahadibrahim8836]

Great video as always I crave more could you make it longer or more frequently and how can I listed to your soundtrack

[@hamoodhabibiOTMI]

great vid!

[@troybrunner4633]

loved hearing about these topics which aren't discussed as much

[@the_major]

Great choice for a topic!

[@ted1045]

Your entire series of videos are very interesting and informative. Will you be doing a video on Fatima al-Fihri and other female scholars during the Islamic golden age?

[@forgottenhistory6232]

So interesting bro maybe make this into a new series

[@khalidmohammed5255]

Nice video 👌

[@judsonwall8615]

Really great channel you’re building here. I echo lots of comments I’ve seen: this is a super refreshing Muslim/middle eastern history channel. As a non-religious person that loves history, I understand that you still have to love to learn about the world’s great religions in order to understand history. You emphasize the “history” part of “Muslim history”, rather than focus primarily on the “Muslim” part, which I appreciate. I’m here to learn about Muslim HISTORY, not Muslim religion per se. Anyway, it looks like you’ve covered pre-Islam Arabia, Muhammad, the early conquests, the Ummayyads and now the Abbasids. Looks like you’re working on the various splinter polities of the caliphate breakup, like al-Andalus, etc. Looking forward to seeing more. Hope you go in a somewhat chronological order from the abbasids. Cheers

[@ansosboy8687]

Interesting Topic

[@houcemeddineothman1313]

I really love this channel. Much of the others focuses on the western history, which is good, but the world is larger than Europe.

[@Gaster_Edits]

Make a video on the seljuks please

[@m.islamnafees5770]

Video ideas: On Spanish Inquisition and settling the debate regarding real identity of Dhul-Qarnayn.

[@Norsean]

Seems like we are more practicing muslims today than were the Caliphate. Such a shame, I wonder how they will be judged at the end for using the power of Islam in their personal advantage.

[@mutaharnnouman6902]

indeed we are, at those time, Abbasid and Umayyad prisoned the scholars who were against them, and yes we should better call it Arab Golden age instead of Islamic Golden age, because those caliphate had sabotaged islamic values, if there were not the blessing of Allah on the scholars of that era, we would not preserved the islamic religion as well

[@Brahmdagh]

What's the sad music in the end?

[@serifir8663]

Brah why did you do the ramadan streams??? T____T

[@aleksapetrovic6519]

You know what would be interesting? Fashion! If you are interested, it would be cool idea to portray how fashion in Muslim world evolved.

[@brittwell2345]

Some kind of skirt that yemenis use is adapted in South East Asia and India with later on evolved as garment used during prayer ...the hat used by Ottoman student also adapted in South East Asia but the usage is evolving into prayer garment ...malaysia and Indonesia muslim used somekind of skirt and hat adapted from both ...kinda wondering to what the story behind it

[@mohammedmessaoudi2882]

A video about the Algerian prince abdelkader against french colony , and his complex system of social circles ... etc

[@Treasure-bl3cn]

to know that having a concubine is haram says a lot about these people 🤢🤢🤢🤢

[@marwaosman4134]

No it's haram and as Qur'an says in ( و لا متخذات اخذان ) &( و لا متخذي اخذان ) So concubines are haram no matter what even if you are the caliphate Allah will ask them in the day of judgement . Anyway they passed away years ago Allah yarhamhum . hamdu-li-Allah there were those good scholars back then who saved our religion ♥

[@Treasure-bl3cn]

@Amirah أميرة it is 🤢 shame on you

[@Treasure-bl3cn]

@@marwaosman4134 this is the biggest lie you are spreading. May Allah guide you

[@Treasure-bl3cn]

@Amirah أميرة what a bullshit. It does not mean that you fool. Ok, then I go and sleep with my ten slave men. They are in my.hand

[@LoveBD153]

@@Treasure-bl3cn prophet Solomon had 300wives and 700concubines as well.... It is Christian, Islam, Judaism history as well

[@ayaselmani932]

I hope you will make more videos about women in Islam history like loubna cordoba en hurra

[@fatherlouiswilliamssugaada5023]

Zubaydah is that kween!

[@afgpielover]

Islam: no sex outside of marriage Abbasid Caliphs, ottomans, etc: Ok, we'll have concubines then. Me: where is the logic in that?!

[@Zizoosworld]

Concubines as war bounty

[@mutaharnnouman6902]

@@Zizoosworld how sad Muslims raided neighboring area , enslaving free women and made them concubine.. when Seyyedina Umar r.a declared that a person who is born from his/her mother as free, how can you enslave ? Muslim monarchs were very much in greed of wealth and women, they abolished their religion

[@rabeeajamil6165]

Please post something on your Urdu channel too! Waiting eagerly!

[@laenorvelaryon5835]

Things look pretty conservative, women in Al Andalus (nobles and concubines) seem to have enjoyed greater freedoms, interestingly I read that it was in emulation of the abbassid "lifestyle"

[@arusa3626]

Please make a video about Sitt Al-Mulk sister of Al-Hakim

[@willbeutner628]

Women: Proof of divine perfection!

[@shahansindhi8141]

The Abbasids said to my face: "Nikah" not "Marriage". Okay!

[@aarushkhanna2749]

Alvida jumma mubarak

[@HamzaKhan-ne2qy]

2:22 Abu Zubayda Jafar Queen Isabella's father ? I dont get this which queen Isabella are you talking about

[@yusufmamasoburov9221]

Can I please ask you where you get all this information? I am working on a project about women in Islam and this would be very useful.

[@zeusdervis6031]

Source : trust me bro

[@786humaira1]

@@zeusdervis6031 😂😂😂

[@Mohammed-xg9ws]

What about شجرة الدر She had sooo much power But yeah she didn't live in the abbasid period

[@Dai_Abdurrahman]

❤

[@welatxwese8074]

I didn't know about all the slaves, concubines, eunuchs, huge parties, ... Were the majority of the Caliphs after the Rashidun caliphate like this?

[@iliass2313]

Nope not at all, That’s why they are called the rashidun. The rightly guided ones, they were humble and didn’t chase short terms pleasure or materialism. But when dynasties like the unmayads and abbasids took over shit like this went down.

[@iliass2313]

Hold on, I read your comment wrong😂

[@testcode9589]

I am so shocked

[@mahmudsami3341]

Love your vedios....❤️❤️ I would like to know which country are you from...?

[@barryirlandi4217]

My guess is Pakistani Canadian

[@faridahmed4886]

a video on the history of mughal harem......

[@ercaner_buzbey]

Assalamun Aleykum ve Rahmatullah, brother. You did a very good work, but I was curious about the princesses married to Seljuk Turks, why didn't you mentioned them? You also said at the start that you will "start with the women of chaliphs" implaying that you would talk about common women too, but apart from the naming of slave girls and how fashion spreading from palace life you did not said anything in particular, why?

[@Norsean]

I believe not a lot was said about common woman of that time. Even great women figures of that time have little sources talking about them, and possibly most of the authentic sources were destroyed. I have no hope in finding authentic source that talks about average women during that time period.

[@mohammedmessaoudi2882]

I hope muslims will build them selves again and share all what they have in belives , philosophy , science , this land has alot to share.

[@vannakinder352]

Yeah maybe let people look outside rod orthodox Sunni Islam or tell America to stop funding Wahhabism/giving so much power to Saudi Arabia (Who I fall the ultimate gatekeepers in Islamic scholarship).

[@shahansindhi8141]

Slavery was very common from all over the territory of the Caliphate!

[@iliass2313]

Letsss goo

[@phenomenology101]

I think there is more to the story of Ulyya.

[@Catherine-Breton]

Am I crazy or Do these famous women only have value for being wifes of rich men ?? I don't understand how come they are supposed to be interresting women in Islamic history !! It's, in my opinion, just sad to see how they are just "wifes" or "favorite concubines"... and nothing more in facts ! "Wow how amazing, did you hear ? There were a few women I can count on my both hands, in Islamic history that were actually loved by their husband. Sooo impressive."... Haha... wtf... they are still objects, merely shadows...

[@AlMuqaddimahYT]

Okay, I'll call history and them to change how women obtained status throughout the world. I bet we can get a few women to have their own startups and yoga studios.

[@mohammedmessaoudi2882]

Please a video about women in the prophet era also the social system and city managment

[@GSAD81]

Please make videos in hindi

[@hsnlutfi4261]

Why don't you make a video about what the actual rule of Islam as a religion and Muslim scholars in these eras was, I'm starting to think that none of them followed islam or adhered to its rules and teachings apart from their muslim names

[@arkseven]

Congrats u figured it out

[@mohammadrezakhani2539]

👍👍👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@mohammedmessaoudi2882]

Please a video about love in islamic history , like the scholar ibno hazm books about love .

[@HikmaHistory]

So now you're copying my 'Epic Female History' idea? Where did your standards go, man

[@AlMuqaddimahYT]

This way people can learn about epic women in history without having to watch one of your videos.

[@suspiciousmind192]

Damn..... My two favorite boys are here 😂

[@HikmaHistory]

@@AlMuqaddimahYT LOOL What kinda dweeb likes his own comments

[@Veriox22]

Me, a christian ._.

[@AlMuqaddimahYT]

I liked it because I wrote it. Charity begins at home, my friend.

[@Omir04]

Hi

[@Wildwildmint]

does anyone know how old this guy is? cause you sound kinda young but I don't think a teen would possess this amount of knowledge let alone speak 3 different languages

[@AlMuqaddimahYT]

I'm 25.

[@Wildwildmint]

@@AlMuqaddimahYT i thought you were 14

[@daud1543]

😂😂 @dae the happy tree

[@DePeaceHunter]

Too bad the pictures displayed are random pictures not related to the story told here

[@tanveerkhan804]

WHY SNACK VIDEO ALWAYS.......

[@worldlifesamer]

Someone: Al-Amin's fondness for eunuchs is questionable..... hhh. ..I did not mean it that way! I meant the other way!

[@UsefulCharts]

What's with all these history channels doing videos about women? It's not even women's history month!

[@AlMuqaddimahYT]

We're feminists. Every month is women's history month.

[@husseinalsharaa202]

@@shaheen6089 you're kinda misinformed.

[@husseinalsharaa202]

@@shaheen6089 about Muslims being afraid to say they are feminists.

[@divyankchhetri7068]

Was Abbasid caliphate influenced by Shiasm?

[@globalviewstv896]

Not at all

[@shahansindhi8141]

I wonder how many women paid the "Jizya".

[@immortalwarlock307]

Women does not pay yhe jizya you smart 🙄

[@shahansindhi8141]

We have to talk about women that were forced to pay "Jizya" to the Caliphate.

[@shahansindhi8141]

The Middle East was completely ethnically cleansed by the Caliphate.

[@immortalwarlock307]

Just like the moghal , they did a great job 👍👏 don't you agree 😁😁

[@shahansindhi8141]

Don't change the topic!

[@salahddinebensebane8429]

Qabiha stand on equal foot with Irene and wu zetian as the worst mother in human history

[@abbasidtheologian4411]

Al-Amin had a fondness for eunchs?? 7:40 .... Is the narrator suggesting he was sexually attracted to men?

[@mohamedsaed5509]

Do not put images of nacked women because we are fasting while watching this

[@AlMuqaddimahYT]

I was fasting while making this. :'(

[@mohamedsaed5509]

@@AlMuqaddimahYT how exactly

[@shahansindhi8141]

I'm guessing a lot of women were presented as "tribute", to your powerful Caliphate.

[@bensweiss]

The face sitting comment is pretty insensitive and inappropriate.

[@Buurba_Jolof]

A video on the umayyad caliph Umar bin abdal Aziz please🥺🙏

[@unknowninvisible2519]

There isn't much during his time, because he didn't had corruption in his time and also he lead for 2 yrs.

[@zxera9702]

Whamennn

[@barryirlandi4217]

Please admit you got everything from Huge Kennedy.. At least mention him

[@AlMuqaddimahYT]

Did you see the rest of my videos? -_-

[@barryirlandi4217]

@@AlMuqaddimahYT not all why?

[@goldencalf8441]

Do cover the caliphate of Abu bakr al baghdadi

[@rayyansobrany9759]

first

[@salahddinebensebane8429]

Wait Al Amine was gay ?

[@anasbelmont8945]

There is a street in Baghdad called gay boys street because he used to go there for you winking duds

[@AlMuqaddimahYT]

Gay and Straight didn't really exist in the same way as they do today. Having sex with people of the same gender was a sin, obviously, but it wasn't seen as a permanent piece of your identity. However, yeah, he did have a preference for male slaves.

[@javiarfasyah868]

Why you geh, al amin?

[@Theshowoffcollector]

@@AlMuqaddimahYT proof?

[@rifatshahriar5057]

These women were nothing in front of iconic figures like Queen Isabella, Queen Elizabeth and Cleopatra. But yeah, they were obviously something and much more independent than that of today's Middle eastern and African women where patriarchy and male chauvinism have deep roots.

[@thewarlock539]

While I agree the Muslim world has got issues regarding womans rights as of now, To state patriachy and Chauvinism as the boogyman is false.

[@ruzzsverion2728]

@@thewarlock539 It sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

[@thewarlock539]

@@ruzzsverion2728 and why is that?

[@husseinalsharaa202]

Actually you're wrong, shajarr al dur easily beats Isabel and cleopatra, but not elizabeth. I mean what is isabella even famous for? breaking treaties and acting like a jerk who expelled the jews,she is literally the definition of overrated. People see her as hero of the reqonquista, she is not a strong ruler if she invaded a small coastal kingdom plagued with internal conflicts (grenada),and then broke treaties.

[@ruzzsverion2728]

@@thewarlock539 Because the muslim world is the more sexist than all others.

[@ahmadganteng7435]

One of mystery in islam is how women in prophet era dress?? This is of course a hot debate topic. I hope one day you cover it

[@ruzzsverion2728]

The slavery of the caliphates was insane. Worst slave trade in history.

[@salahddinebensebane8429]

have you herd of the Atlantic slave trade

[@anasbelmont8945]

Have you heard of colonialism

[@Theakritas_]

Its as if its something thats not normal during colonialist times..

[@ruzzsverion2728]

@@salahddinebensebane8429 Yes they got their slaves from the Arab slave markets.

[@ruzzsverion2728]

@@anasbelmont8945 Yeah like arab colonialism in northen africa.

[@claudiotavares9580]

I never saw a content so heavily biased, defamatory and full misconceptions made by a muslim about muslim history. What a shameful thing, brother! You need to research and read a lot more to become capable of making educational content with responsability and discernment. C'mom, i would expect that type of content from a mossad funded anti-muslim content creator, but not from a muslim channel...

[@AR-bf7tm]

It's not historically incorrect. Just because an Empire or a figure is muslim does not mean that its going to be all happy and good. He clearly said that in early muslim history women were given a lot of privileges and enjoyed equal respect but during the Abbasid period this slowly deteriorated. This isnt false a lot of the social problem muslim women face now isn't due to religion but the legacy of social practices created by the Abbassids such as the Purdah, preventing women from working, preventing women from being educated and etc. Yes he is muslim but he is also an impartial historian. We as Muslims need to stop having a fairy tail illusion in our minds that all of Muslim history was great and happy.

[@claudiotavares9580]

@@AR-bf7tm Lol, this IS incorrect as fuck. Purdah is a pré-islamic concept that exists not only in Arabia, but also in various outhers cultural and religious groups in the Middle East and India; and was not widely adopted or institutionalized in Abbasid era, but in the Mughal era, centuries after the colapse of the Abbasid Caliphate. I know that some muslim states had issues with womans liberties, in some later periods in 18th and 19th centuries, when this escalated greatly in Middle East and India, but again, this was not the rule in muslim world even in this time. I'm not a idealist that romanticized the past, i know that things were not good in muslim states all the time, but is a fact that in muslim states before the illuminist and colonial european times, the muslim world had mutch better quality of life not only for womans, but for all general population, even slaves, that the christian west had.

[@AR-bf7tm]

@@claudiotavares9580 again I never said the Purdah was Islamic but that the Abbassid under Persian influence adopted the formal Harem construct and the Purdah System. Again I never said that Pre-Colonial Islamic society didn't have a higher standard of life than Colonial times, I agree with you. But that doesn't take away from the fact that the Abbasids deteriorated the rights of women that were established in the Rashidun and Umayyad caliphates throughout its time.

[@claudiotavares9580]

@@AR-bf7tm You can prove with sources that the Abbasids deteriorated womans rights in muslim world? Because about the purdah, i never read nothing that stated this in any historical or academical source. In contrast, theres a lot of literary sources that stated how social descentralized was the abbasid interference in his citizens daily lifes; not only this, but also how some notorious nobles of the caliphate - including womans - have a higitely libertine lifestyle, some times even hedonistic, in direct conflict with the sharia.