Fall of the Umayyad Caliphate

The History of Spain Podcast

This is episode 23 called Fall of the Umayyad Caliphate and in this episode you will learn:
SHOW NOTES
- Important announcement regarding the new website that has now a store and the start of monetization of the podcast, through Patreon, donations, ads and the store
- The military failures of wali Anbasa and the rise of taxes, leading to increasing internal strife, as it was happening in the rest of the Caliphate
- The reappointment of Abd al-Rahman al-Ghafiqi as wali of al-Andalus and the last major expedition of the Umayyad Caliphate in the West, devastating Aquitaine but ending as a disaster with the Battle of Tours
- After the death of al-Ghafiqi, factionalist Arab conflicts and ethnic struggles between Arabs and Berbers became uncontrollable
- The start of the Great Berber Revolt in Maghreb due to the second-class treatment that Muslim Berbers received
- Permanent political division of Islam after the success of the Great Berber Revolt in the Battle of the Nobles and the Battle of Bagdoura
- First steps towards the self-government of al-Andalus
- Rebellion of the Berbers of al-Andalus, who abandoned their garrisons of the north and allowed Alfonso I of Asturias to take them
- The coming of the Syrians who survived the Battle of Bagdoura under Balj ibn Bishr
- The suppression of the Berber revolt in al-Andalus and the seizure of power by the Syrians
- Last attempt to restore Umayyad caliphal rule in al-Andalus, by agreeing to a governor to reestablish peace and order and stop the civil war
- Restart of the civil war and coup d'état led by the Syrians al-Sumayl and Yusuf ibn Abd al-Rahman, who became the last wali of al-Andalus although he was de facto independent from Umayyad central authority
- Success of the Abbasid Revolution in 750 and fall of the Umayyad Caliphate
- The arrival in al-Andalus of an exiled survivor of the Umayyad dynasty, Abd al-Rahman, who would establish the Emirate of Córdoba in 756
- Reflection on the consequences of the Abbasid Revolution for the Islamic world