Why The Alhambra Is Epic | Al-Andalus History

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The Christian re-conquest of Spain culminated in the 15th century with the recapture of Granada. Ever since then, the vestiges of al-Andalus were stamped out by Catholic monarchs who wanted to imprint a Christian identity on the nation. But reminders of the glory of al-Andalus still abound; perhaps nowhere more strongly than through its architectural legacy. The Muslim rulers in Spain commissioned the construction of countless brilliant monuments. Many consider the most remarkable of these monuments to be the palace fortress the Alhambra, which sits gloriously atop the hills of Granada.
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@HikmaHistory 3 года назад

What are your TOP 3 favourite historical monuments?

@xyzg4828 3 года назад

Kaba masjid al nabawi and dome of the rock

@ShahrukhKhan-qo9pw 3 года назад

The blue mosque,taj mahal and haram al sharif

@miamidolphinsfan 3 года назад

Lincoln Memorial, Holocaust Memorial on Miami Beach & Valley Forge in Pennsylvania

@jannestiemes4328 3 года назад

That’s an extremely hard choice, there are just way too many incredibly beautiful and imposing monuments. But in the end I think I’d pick the Statue of Liberty, the Petra and the Taj Mahal, because of what they represent: Freedom, perseverance and love respectively, 3 things I value greatly. But in the end there are hundreds upon hundreds of different sites that that deserve to be in a list like that in their own right. From temples and places of learning to administrative buildings and fortresses, it is incredible and truly awe-inspiring what humanity has been able to build. I’d also be interested in hearing your top 3 though.

@HikmaHistory 3 года назад

Haram al-Sharif because of the religious value or do you actually like the aesthetic of it?

@JoseManuel-is4yc 3 года назад

I live in Málaga, near Granada. I have visited the Alhambra plenty of times, and I've also visited some more famous things like the coliseum or new york thirty. The Alhambra is still the most precious peace of architecture that I have ever seen. We aren't a muslim country anymore, but we are proud of our heritage

@HikmaHistory 3 года назад

Better than the Mezquita?

@JoseManuel-is4yc 3 года назад

@@HikmaHistory I also love La Mezquita de Córdoba, but the art inside the Alhambra is more complex and beautiful, and the christian cathedral inside the Mezquita isn't a good idea, because you can't see the hole line of columns as it was, because this enormous thing is in the middle

@Boric78 3 года назад

@J C Ture - not Spanish but seen both and live fairly close to both. The Alhambra is awesome, the Mezquita too - but I would choose the Alhambra. The throne room sections is amazing. And the views outiside both into the complex and out. I don't think its a question of what is best, they are both awesome. You need to get yourself over to Spain (when you can). Its a great country. A visit to both is essential.

@galadari Год назад

I was looking at your last comment "We aren't a muslim country anymore" Sure, you are not anymore, but that does not stop you from reverting to being Muslim. Study and you will find the truth. The Muslims who remained in Spain after the expulsion were forced to change religion. If it wasn't for that, you may have still be a Muslim. Give it a thought.

@uaala 8 месяцев назад

Visited Andalusia last July and the Alhambra is truly the most spectacular and beautiful place I’ve ever been to.

@AsiniusNaso 3 года назад

I’ve travelled to three different continents, and La Alhambra is the most beautiful building I have ever seen.

@HikmaHistory 3 года назад

Big praise. What else have you seen?

@AsiniusNaso 3 года назад

@@HikmaHistory Bunch of the classic tourist locations in Spain, England, mainland USA, Hawai’i and Japan. All sorts of cathedrals like Santiago de Compostela, castles like the one in York, temples like Yasukuni, standing stones and other places. The sheer detail and geometry of La Alhambra, mixed with water and nature is like nothing else. It’s just incredible!

@HikmaHistory 3 года назад

Yh in my research for this video I found it fascinating how integral Mathematics was to the architects of the Alhambra!

@elliottprats1910 2 года назад

Even better than the Shah Mosque (Isfahan)?

@Albiliuss 2 года назад

You should do one video about the Madinat al-Zahra or Medina Azahara. Not many people know about it, but sure it was splendid in its time!

@HikmaHistory 2 года назад

Great idea!

@jeremyglauert40 9 месяцев назад

It's always been my dream to see the Alhambra for the past 10 years. I'm Australian but the absolute love of my life is a Persian woman I've been dating the last five years and I want nothing more than to share the experience with her as she really wants to see it as well and her homeland of Iran also has the most beautiful Islamic mosaic work. Another place I would like to visit

@HikmaHistory 9 месяцев назад

I'm in the same boat - been enamoured by it from a distance, I can't wait to see it in person!

@lindacassumba6252 3 года назад

Granada is really a beautiful little town. If you haven't seen it already. You should definitely go there. And see Alhambra when you go you will not be sorry. One of the most beautiful things I have seen ❤️

@sokrat-sokrat Год назад

are you from england ????

@miamidolphinsfan 3 года назад

A place on my European "bucket list" for sure

@HikmaHistory 3 года назад

Fascinating to think a monument so closely associated with Islam could be on your 'European bucket list'! Just speaks about how interesting history is!

@miamidolphinsfan 3 года назад

@@HikmaHistory yeah but living in Miami, and that means Coral Gables, a city in which all of the streets are either Spanish, Italian or Porugese, and one of the main drags is Alhambra Circle. So when in school I saw there was an Alhambra Palace I had to find out about it....voila!!! There was born an interest in going there :)

@user-ms9ig8ig6n Год назад

Nevertheless, the palace of Alhambra has also inspired Fransisco Tarrega, remarkable Spanish guitar composer, for writing his famous "Recuerdos de la Alhambra" piece.

@kh4liqi 2 года назад

The Arabs left the Spanish with a magnificent tourism industry that it is today!!!!

@syedjavedahmad9719 Год назад

Excellent historic report. Just returned from Alhambra beautiful one must visit.

@HikmaHistory Год назад

I’m still yet to visit, can’t wait until I do!

@McVaySwifty 3 года назад

Fascinating stuff. Makes you wonder about the identities and backgrounds of the architects who made the Alhambra, such intricate architecture and interior design

@HikmaHistory 3 года назад

Yeah that's one kinda sad thing in history - architects not getting the due respect/credit for their creations.

@silveryuno 3 года назад

I am so happy I decided to visit in 2018~ Don't know when will it happen again...

@riab3591 11 месяцев назад

Can’t beat the Muslims in their architecture and the fact their Creator name is at the center and on all walls, says a lot about their conviction and the truth in their faith

@MakamoCreations 2 года назад

Most beautiful place I’ve ever been to

@HikmaHistory 2 года назад

Can't wait to go myself!

@freetube5304 3 года назад

if the Alhambra is so magnificent and beautiful as it is, then just imagine how opulent Medinat-Al-Zahara would have been if it survived to present time

@Goyim-phobic 3 года назад

Its so great that Spanish archeologists say they there was 4000 calms in the al zahra palace

@SamAronow 3 года назад

I made a terrible mistake skipping Granada when I last visited Spain. Won't make that mistake next time!

@HikmaHistory 3 года назад

Granada is definitely on my travel list!

@elliottprats1910 2 года назад

Where did you visit if not Granada?

@johoch40 9 месяцев назад

Gracias por este vídeo! Me fascina la historia española , especialmente la del Andaluz.

@HikmaHistory 9 месяцев назад

De nada!

@silveryuno 3 года назад

I like to nickname Musilm Granada as "The City of Water", given how much water and the motif of water is present in the city from the floors to the walls and celings.

@skpjoecoursegold366 3 года назад

on my 'bucket list'.

@KhalidKhan-ki9bi Год назад

Good 👍information 👌.

@user-fl7by8in5o 3 года назад

👍 good video

@HikmaHistory 3 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@Firp353 2 года назад

Next holiday destination

@lerneanlion 3 года назад

Have you ever heard of the place called Mosque City of Bagerhat? I heard that it contains several mosques inside and was built when the entire Bengal region was an independent sultanate. So can you do a video about it, please?

@HikmaHistory 3 года назад

That's a great idea. A very underrated and impressive monument!

@CivilWarWeekByWeek 3 года назад

You should start a review show of these places

@HikmaHistory 3 года назад

'Review show' - what do you mean?

@CivilWarWeekByWeek 3 года назад

@@HikmaHistory like this gets a 4/5

@HikmaHistory 3 года назад

Ahh never thought of that...

@achourfreepalestine Год назад

Fun fact The word Alhambra is a descendant of the Arabic word الحمرا Or الحمراء Which means RED

@elliottprats1910 2 года назад

I know in Iran and other places muslim buildings were made in such a way that a sound would echo back 4x+ (one i know is 7x) is anyplace in the Alhambra made like this?

@jayslungsbloodclot2733 11 месяцев назад

Still defending the Andalusian Heritage 🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦

@naim7466 9 месяцев назад

Most famous historic Arabian Palace in the World,from the prosperous Islamic Spain,no Middle Eastern country has from that period,Topkapi Palace in Instabul,Turkey was built much later.

@hafsaboudra-dewit1006 3 года назад

Mohammadin 3ysah = שירה אהובה = beloved poetry

@Nomadicenjoyer31 3 года назад

Where are you from admin?

@HikmaHistory 3 года назад

Check my Q&A ;)

@tiffanybennito1907 11 месяцев назад

Some more info, this is Algerian dziri architect, stated by the spanish historians themselves, the familly who built the castle was of Algerian origin, after the chase of the spanish from Andalusia which was also conquered by the Algerian amazigh Tarik Ibn ziad from the Aouras mountains in Algeria, when they were chased from Alhambra, they flee back to Algeria, Algiers was built using this Dziri architecture, it was completely destroyed by the french, but there still some remains, the castle of bni hamad in Algeria was along what survived

@s.z.zmagnum9428 9 месяцев назад

I see where you come from. Cut that nationalistic political sided pseudo-historian arguments. There was no Algerian, Moroccan nor Tunisian identity at the time. It was Al-Andalus.

@444_ek 8 месяцев назад

it’s not algerian it’s arab levantine

@s.z.zmagnum9428 8 месяцев назад

@@444_ek neither.

@tiffanybennito1907 8 месяцев назад

@@444_ek 😁 you find this Architecture no where in the Arab world, the few ones who have them are newly built, mean while Andalousia and Grenada castle is a copy cat of Telemcen a very ancient city in Algeria, and the Castle of Beni Hamad

@tiffanybennito1907 8 месяцев назад

@@s.z.zmagnum9428 😁😁😁 you're obviously ignorant about Algerian History, then who conquered Andalousie and spread Islam? Let just me just tell you some things, then do your own research, the oldest university in the world not in use anymore, is in Algeria it's 2000 years old, did you know that the math that you know today came from Béjaïa a city in the north of Algeria, brought by da vinci? his dad took to learn science there, it's was the city of sciences, candles were invented there too, did you know that an Algerian numedian ruled Rome for 14 months and put rome for sale? And another one ruled England. And shashunk the Algerian numedian who became a pharo and rulled Egypt, did you hear of the Algerian Pirates the strongest and the most fierce pirates in history? Jack Sparrow in the movie was real, he was of Algerian origin, Christopher Columbus did't discover the Americas, Yuba the 1st the husband of Cleopatra's daughter céléné was the one who discovered the Americas, their Dome is in Algeria till today, and it's an Algerian sailor who took Christopher Columbus to the americas. Most of the Andalousie people when they flee from the prosecution they flee back to Algeria. Spain returned the saber of Tarik Ibn Ziad to Algeria, and she opened a museum about the Algerian ziri influence in Andalousia and Grenada, when we don't know history we zip our mouths

@lailaabir8698 Год назад

It's not AL-Hambra, it's Al-Hamra, which means the red (for a female) . It was named after the ruler of Gharnata (Granada) who's last name is Al-Ahmar (the red, for a male) from the tribe of Bani Al-Ahmar. The castle was built with the moroccan architecture under the moroccan rule of Al-Andalous by Marinids and Hafsids. This is what Ibn al-Khatib mentioned in his book, he mentioned how the Marinids and Hafsids sent subsidies to build the palace.

@ColonelFluffles 10 месяцев назад

It was built under the nasrid rule. However the architecture was not purely Andalusian, but inspired by the architecture of Fes. The inspiration mainly came from when the Nasrid king and his Architect sought refuge in Fes due to a military coup in Granada.

@iTZzEroK Год назад

Arab Architecture in Spain is Amazing Fun Fact inside the Alhambra on the walls has inscriptions that means in Arabic:Prince of Granada is proud to be an Arab from Alansar tribe who they came along from Arabian Peninsula And Thanks to Spain for protect it and grateful to the Saudi King who paid generously to Fix it

@ColonelFluffles 10 месяцев назад

The architecture is not Arabian. But indigenous western. However there are influences from the east.

@444_ek 8 месяцев назад

@@ColonelFlufflesit’s arab architecture, specifically levantine

@444_ek 8 месяцев назад

it’s not arabian architecture but arab architecture,

@thecaracarn6544 2 месяца назад

@@444_ek Very funny, tell me where I can find the likes of Alhambra in the levant? Maybe the earlier mosque of Cordoba, but Alhambra? That's completely western Islamic architecture that's only found in Spain, Morocco and El Mechouar palace in Tlemcen.

@jaif7327 Год назад

4:28 Nords

@wrightroenigk 3 года назад

I am arguement with friends when did consantinople become istanble

@meryemuca1905 3 года назад

1453

@jaif7327 Год назад

very long time ago al masudi calls it istanbul

@awk90 2 года назад

moroccan architecture is always the best 🇲🇦 we have this architecture in fes marrakech rabat casablanca meknes and also in chefchaoun ، Qarawyin university (7th century ) alhambra (12th century) im so proud 😍 ps: Spain uses Moroccans to restore these buildings

@jubanumidia8460 2 года назад

It's Andalusian architecture, at that time there wasn't Morocco, Granada city was built by Ziries

@yassineyassine4557 2 года назад

@@jubanumidia8460 look who speaks a stupid algeria 🇵🇼😂 did u know that algeria was founded by france in 1962

@justejuste9700 Год назад

@@jubanumidia8460exactly👌the marocain people appropriate all the maghreb! history to Morroco🤔

@justejuste9700 Год назад

@@awk90 you have to be strong to hear what do you not able to hear. because, ibn Ziri is from algerian.

@justejuste9700 Год назад

Maroccain architecture?? Do you know the history of Granada?? Do you know the algerian IBN Ziri according to dzayer?? You can't change the history as you like.

@gravityrha5358 Год назад

Unfortunately, they simply refer that the architecture used there is Arabic muslim, if you look anywhere in the world you won't find the same but only in Morocco, why you guys don't😊 tell the truth, that this has been transferred from moroccain architecture, as we have older palaces in morocco with same architecture.

@Saa42808 2 года назад

Catholic monarch wants to imprint Christian identity but wants to preserve the amazing talent of Muslims in architecture so it can serve them as a cash cow to this day. Worst example of hypocrisy. Same could be said for the Indians the way they have preserved Islamic architecture (Taj Mahal and many more) over there which have absolutely nothing to do with Hinduism and its history.

@invisiblegirl28 Год назад

At least they can recognize a good thing and not destroy it.

@tcbbctagain572 3 месяца назад

Well muslims were the one's that invaded 😂

@666GamesBond 3 года назад

Alhamdulillah for the past but what did the muslims of today achieve?

@alexisdespland4939 Год назад

need to explain what a yeshiva is.

@shakilahmed6915 11 месяцев назад

If it is in India, then hinduttabadis may call it is their hindu architecture and was a temple...

@salmasalma750 2 года назад

Our islamic country .. wonderful place 😍

@sokrat-sokrat Год назад

are you from england ????

@salmasalma750 Год назад

No... from saudi arabia .. Father saudi.. Mama syrian.. And im artist 🎨

@salmasalma750 Год назад

@@sokrat-sokrat thank you you so Much.. You are welcom 🌷🌷🌷

@sokrat-sokrat Год назад

@@salmasalma750 THANK YOU MY SISTER ... I AM FROM MOROCCO..

@salmasalma750 Год назад

@@sokrat-sokrat 😊welcome brother.. So you are speak arabic??

@alexisdespland4939 Год назад

who was the laST PERSON TO CALL THE ALHAMBARA HO,mE. THERE is also an l'a sunurn called alhamnra

@Dennis-qf6gf 2 года назад

We will return, and take back what is ours

@goncaloalves1756 2 года назад

lol 😂

@elliottprats1910 2 года назад

No you won’t and it’s not yours.

@Dark-gd7ob 2 года назад

It's ours we made it better

@malikahmad8170 9 месяцев назад

Yes, we would take it back Inshallah-you violated the treaty of surrender and each of its clause. First we would try to the international courts of Justice- same thing Russia is doing in Ukraine

@yassineyassine4557 2 года назад

Moroccan architecture ❤️🇲🇦