The History Of Spain Podcast

This is episode 37 called Umayyads in peril and in this episode you will learn: SHOW NOTES - The short reign of Emir al-Mundhir - The personality of Emir Abd Allah and the big picture of his reign - The qasi-Taifa states of Murcia and Seville, respectively ruled by Daysam ibn Ishaq and the Banu Hayyay clan - The story of the maritime Republic of Pechina, in Almería - The Muslim conquest of the Balearic Islands under Isam al-Hawlani - The Berber and Messianic movement that ended up in the Day of Zamora - The peak of Umar ibn Hafsun’s power and the loss of initiative - Why the Umayyad dynasty of Córdoba managed to survived this turbulent period and an illustrative example of the extreme fragility of Umayyad rule - A general overview of the situation of Medieval Spain before Abd al-Rahman III’s accession to the throne - An effort to imagine how the average Andalusi lived during this period