Umayyads in peril

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