Al-Andalus
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Sep 11, 2026
Doug MetzgerHOST
It's not new.
Doug MetzgerHOST
During the Roman Empire, during the first three caliphates in Al-Andalus and in a dozen central Eurasian empires, humanity did what we are perfectly capable of doing, glomming together into productive civilizations, even though some of us were striped and others spotted.
Doug MetzgerHOST
We have always been able to do this and to do it without losing our stripes and spots, should we decide to retain them.
Doug MetzgerHOST
We are as hardwired for cultural interoperability as we are for malignant tribalism, and it is tremendously inspiring to see a pope and a grand ayatollah and a grand sheikh all standing up on behalf of the solidarity of all humans.
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To the north, the newborn Christian kingdom of Portugal.
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To the south, Muslim Al-Andalus.
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Leiria was not born to be beautiful.
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It was born to be a shield.
S.S. KimNARRATOR
They had learned their lessons and meekly admitted the Goths.
S.S. KimNARRATOR
In the beginning of the 8th century, when the Saracens had reached the African shore of the Atlantic and were looking across the Straits of Hercules to the sunny provinces of Andalusia, the Goths had been in possession of Spain for more than 200 years.
S.S. KimNARRATOR
There had been time enough to reform the corrupt conditions of the kingdom and to infuse the fresh vigor of youth, which an old civilization sometimes gains by the introduction of barbarians but masculine races.
S.S. KimNARRATOR
There were special reasons why the Goths should improve the status of Spain.
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S.S. KimNARRATOR
Julian himself would show him the way and lend him the ships.
S.S. KimNARRATOR
The Arab was a cautious general, however.
S.S. KimNARRATOR
This inviting proposal, he considered, might cover a treacherous ambuscade, so he sent his messengers to his master, the Caliph at Damascus, to ask for instructions, and meantime contented himself with sending a small body of 500 men on the tariff in 710 to make a raid in Julian's four ships upon the coast of Andalusia.
S.S. KimNARRATOR
The Arabs had not yet become used to the navigation of the Mediterranean, and Musa was unwilling to expose more than an insignificant part of his army to the perils of the deep.
TitusHOST
[chuckles] So there's the Almohad Caliphate.
TitusHOST
It was a Berber dynasty that ruled most of, like, you know, Al-Andalus in, in North Africa.
TitusHOST
They followed Almohadism.
TitusHOST
What's that? I don't know.
Doug MetzgerHOST
It's not new.
Doug MetzgerHOST
During the Roman Empire, during the first three Caliphates, in Al-Andalus, and in a dozen central Eurasian empires, humanity did what we are perfectly capable of doing, glomming together into productive civilizations, even though some of us were striped and others spotted.
Doug MetzgerHOST
We have always been able to do this, and to do it without losing our stripes and spots, should we decide to retain them.
Doug MetzgerHOST
We are as hard-wired for cultural interoperability as we are for malignant tribalism, and it is tremendously inspiring to see a Pope and a Grand Ayatollah and a Grand Sheikh all standing up on behalf of the solidarity of all humans.
Sharyn EastaughHOST
The History of the Crusades podcast presents Reconquista, The Rise of Al-Andalus and the Reconquest of Spain.
Sharyn EastaughHOST
Episode 140, Carlos the Bad.
Sharyn EastaughHOST
Hello again.
Corey WayneHOST
So in post, when you're editing this, Caroline, you can put it together with that.
Corey WayneHOST
So this is why Spain, the like ISIS and all the rest of them, they refer to Spain as, how do you say that? Al-Andalus? Andalus? Andalus.
Corey WayneHOST
Al-Andalus.
Corey WayneHOST
So they see Spain, even though Queen Isabella took it back, In the Reconquista, they still see that as Islamic land because it was once conquered.
Corey WayneHOST
And so in their mind, Allah owns it.
Ali Al-BarghouthiHOST
Right? So he saw someone doing like this and spending a lot of time next to Rasulullah's grave.
Ali Al-BarghouthiHOST
He told him, right, whatever salah and salam you send, Allah delivers it through an angel and you standing right here and someone in Al-Andalus in Spain are alike.
Ali Al-BarghouthiHOST
So imagine that the distance, this distance does not make any difference because the way the vehicle of carrying that salutation a greeting and dua for the Prophet ﷺ is the same vehicle, which is an angel.
Ali Al-BarghouthiHOST
It doesn't happen through the Prophet ﷺ hearing you directly.
Mariel GruszkoHOST
Cordoba House invokes Cordoba.
Mariel GruszkoHOST
of al-Andalus.
Mariel GruszkoHOST
So al-Andalus was a Muslim caliphate in the 8th through 11th centuries.
Mariel GruszkoHOST
Famously, al-Andalus was a golden age for For the Iberian Peninsula, that time of the caliphate was a time where Muslims, Jews, and Christians coexisted in a territory and had this massive efflorescence of science and arts and architecture and just huge amounts of cultural production in an atmosphere of shared prosperity, right? Oh, and also Al-Andalus was incredibly prosperous.
Mariel GruszkoHOST
So if you're thinking about... models for coexistence in the wake of 9-11, the invocation of Cordoba is incredibly apt.
Colin McLaughlin AlcockHOST
Yeah.
Jimmy BittonHOST
And I remember the speech made by Osama bin Laden after 9-11.
Jimmy BittonHOST
And he says that al-Andalus will never fall again.
Jimmy BittonHOST
Because for them, Spain is also Dar al-Islam.
Jimmy BittonHOST
And therefore, so is Israel, because Israel, of course, was once under Islamic rule.
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