The Medieval Islamicate World: Crash Course History of Science #7

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  • čas přidán 13. 05. 2018
  • The religion of Islam significantly influenced knowledge-making in the greater Mediterranean and western Asian world. Islamicate scholars-meaning people influenced by Islamic civilization, regardless of their religious views-gave us terms such as “algebra,” “azimuth,” “algorithm,” “alcohol,” “alkali,” and “alembic.”
    We’ll dive into Islamic medicine and philosophers such as the great Persian polymath Ibn Sina in future episodes. For now, let’s explore the beginnings of Islamicate natural philosophy.
    It's really cool, you guys!
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  • @Golha2505
    @Golha2505 Před 6 lety +1157

    oh man ,he didn't even mention ibn al haytham ,jabir ibn hayan ,al kinidi ,al-Tabari.. and its still awesome!

    • @yas7689
      @yas7689 Před 5 lety +9

      he probably will in the next episodes :D

    • @navedrizv
      @navedrizv Před 5 lety +68

      @Blue Gh Jabir bin Hayyan was great muslim scientist, your filthy mind would not fathem this truth.
      You are filled with hate and in denial.

    • @ahmarsaeed6085
      @ahmarsaeed6085 Před 5 lety +2

      Awesome? It freaking blew my mind!

    • @billbir6113
      @billbir6113 Před 5 lety +14

      @@navedrizv My name is Jabir, so I did a bit of research and realized how lucky I am to be named after such an individual whom the west owes a tremendous amount due to his understanding of all the sciences we cherish today.

    • @sameerhasan8101
      @sameerhasan8101 Před 5 lety +9

      @How Would The Unwary Know Give me the source which states that Ibn al-Haytham was an atheist.

  • @reembn868
    @reembn868 Před 6 lety +2303

    As a Muslim this makes me both proud and kinda sad because how things are right now

    • @eclypso8524
      @eclypso8524 Před 5 lety +43

      Same here 2

    • @nazimjijel5387
      @nazimjijel5387 Před 5 lety +16

      @Afra The Fox Girl same 3

    • @mohamednsiri7713
      @mohamednsiri7713 Před 5 lety +15

      Same here 4

    • @yuzan3607
      @yuzan3607 Před 5 lety +188

      Let's try to live our lives (as much as we can) with the morals and philosophies of our wise ancestors.
      Let's ignore the hatered and prejudice of the west, the ignorance, corruption and backwardness of our nations.
      Let's not forget our scientists and philosophers whom history has forgotten, let's study, teach and add on to their wisdom. If we can't change our nations we can start from ourselves.

    • @xlynx9
      @xlynx9 Před 5 lety +32

      That's wise @@yuzan3607. No matter your circumstance, you can have pride just from knowing you're thinking in a way which leads to human flourishing. Pride => economy => politics => all. Remember it's one world of which you are a part.

  • @msaley6033
    @msaley6033 Před 4 lety +436

    "Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave" ~Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)

  • @whiteflagstoo
    @whiteflagstoo Před 6 lety +1446

    You can't just drop "medieval robots" on me and say nothing about it!

    • @qbslug
      @qbslug Před 6 lety +31

      thats because it is an exaggeration

    • @syedusamamanzoor1838
      @syedusamamanzoor1838 Před 6 lety +50

      mechanical automation existed even in prophet king Solomon's era.

    • @syedusamamanzoor1838
      @syedusamamanzoor1838 Před 6 lety +25

      having robots in medieval times should be no surprise

    • @solaireastora5133
      @solaireastora5133 Před 6 lety +38

      THIS!!!!
      WE DEMAND ANSWERS!!!!

    • @IgnisDomini97
      @IgnisDomini97 Před 6 lety +102

      They were more like theme-park animatronics than modern-day useful robots, but still amazing.

  • @carschmn
    @carschmn Před 5 lety +374

    We were taught in my high school astronomy class how the Arabs saved astronomy. Since it is was the early 2000s in the USA, this blew some people’s minds.

    • @zhess4096
      @zhess4096 Před 4 lety +62

      @Mando Man lol, "stole". How do you steal knowledge?

    • @JAYZ999
      @JAYZ999 Před 4 lety +77

      Mando Man If true, I don’t think you know how knowledge works. Otherwise science is now built on “stealing” from each other.

    • @user-ve2in6jf9q
      @user-ve2in6jf9q Před 4 lety +33

      @Mando Man Stole knowledge? you're not very bright aren't you?

    • @ChangedNames
      @ChangedNames Před 4 lety +17

      @Mando Man Knowledge is something that is given from one scientist to another, and improved by the next.
      If we stole, so did every other scientist. Because our advancement builds up from the experiments our ancestors. For once respect those who used their brain for the better ment of humanity, at least we didnt create bombs that would explode thousands of humans at a time.

    • @abhiprakash74999
      @abhiprakash74999 Před 4 lety +8

      @Mando Man bro by ur definition we all steal knowledge. None of us invented geology or quadratic equations or languages , yet we all learn it in school.
      By ur definition , we should let children figure out everything from hindu numeral and decimal systems to advanced calculus.
      Hawking stole from einstein who stole from Newton who stole from previous scholars. Lol .
      It's not stealing , it's transference of knowledge in increasing quantity.

  • @3idaalmehairi183
    @3idaalmehairi183 Před 6 lety +427

    madrasa is school in arabic btw

    • @3idaalmehairi183
      @3idaalmehairi183 Před 6 lety +14

      also qanats is channels in arabic

    • @vj9086
      @vj9086 Před 5 lety +14

      In other cultures and nations they hadn't schools at that time 😅

    • @sanaullahalom2253
      @sanaullahalom2253 Před 5 lety +38

      Right and a Muslim girls called fatima Al fehri is founder of education system .....

    • @69tg97
      @69tg97 Před 5 lety

      يا فاضي😂😂

    • @nafeezofficial
      @nafeezofficial Před 5 lety +3

      In Bengali it means Islamic School.

  • @Norimarisu
    @Norimarisu Před 6 lety +628

    I've watched this video 4 times because I feel the need to search most of the info here so I can know more cause it all sounds so interesting. I feel like young me was robbed of this knowledge in my formal education.

    • @duraath
      @duraath Před 5 lety +52

      it's not called robbed from you, if you live in the western it is called "not telling"

    • @walkingdead7115
      @walkingdead7115 Před 5 lety +28

      Yes sadly the media lies a lot.
      Read about jabar bin hayan.
      Hes one of the most influential figures in chemistry.
      He is considered the father of chemistry along with later EUROPEAN scientists.
      But he laid basis for later chemists.
      Jabar bin hayan was a Persian polymath.a practicing shia Muslim and student of imam jafar( jafar was a theologian polymath and the son of the Prophet Muhammad,his 6th generation)

    • @Aazammm
      @Aazammm Před 5 lety +19

      Most of the history we refer is from Christians and that's why you won't see praise about Islamic world in it

    • @gravefx9437
      @gravefx9437 Před 5 lety +31

      WALKING DEAD no they don’t teach us the the islamic history because they want us to stay ignorant and think that islam is a barbarian religion and that we they had no influence on our current world..

    • @hdakahidef
      @hdakahidef Před 5 lety +12

      I'm glad to see positive comments, gives me hope that intelligence is still somewhat sought

  • @nedimbajgoric2909
    @nedimbajgoric2909 Před 5 lety +379

    The abbassid caliphate had the highest life expectancy in the world before the industrial revolution

    • @RazorEdge2006
      @RazorEdge2006 Před 5 lety +59

      @Mateo Valenzuela
      Average life expectancy of pre-industrial civilizations:
      Ancient Greece - 25-28
      Ancient Rome - 25
      Medieval Islamic World - 35+ (source: Lawrence Conrad, The Western Medical Tradition)
      Pre-Columbian America - 25-30
      Late Medieval England - 30
      As you can see, the Medieval Islamic World had the highest average life expectancy among pre-industrial civilizations.

    • @navedrizv
      @navedrizv Před 5 lety +4

      .. because of the blood and money they sucked out of their people.

    • @isorokudono
      @isorokudono Před 5 lety +4

      @@RazorEdge2006 Medieval England is a bad example. There were two mini ice ages.

    • @RazorEdge2006
      @RazorEdge2006 Před 5 lety +9

      @@isorokudono That was the life expectancy in Medieval England even before the mini-ice age.

    • @RazorEdge2006
      @RazorEdge2006 Před 5 lety +60

      @@navedrizv People lived longer in the medieval Islamic world because they had the highest living standards, most advanced medicine, most sophisticated hospitals and best healthcare available in the pre-modern era.

  • @sleepynidzyy
    @sleepynidzyy Před 6 lety +2579

    The muslim ummah today (on the other hand): Sharing videos of a cat not stepping on Quran...Wow

    • @Froggeh92
      @Froggeh92 Před 6 lety +160

      Too real

    • @mohdsaif5539
      @mohdsaif5539 Před 6 lety +65

      😂😂😂

    • @hamzahfrs6548
      @hamzahfrs6548 Před 6 lety +107

      Nidzara K and Zamzam water turning light bulbs on

    • @lovelace5286
      @lovelace5286 Před 6 lety +65

      This comment deserves a Pulitzer Prize

    • @lovelace5286
      @lovelace5286 Před 6 lety +42

      HmFRS M OMG my mum showed me that and I cried because the dude comes from the same ummah as the medieval robot inventor

  • @112steinway
    @112steinway Před 6 lety +164

    So much of this was undone when the Mongols came to town. They burned the library at Baghdad to the ground and thew so many books in the river that it was said the water turned black.

    • @bilodolo11
      @bilodolo11 Před 5 lety

      oh my, where did you hear this?

    • @Zoogor95
      @Zoogor95 Před 5 lety +27

      @@bilodolo11 it's true

    • @trentbishop5920
      @trentbishop5920 Před 5 lety

      When I hear the sacking of Baghdad (1250s) I laughed because I loved the mongols

    • @hdakahidef
      @hdakahidef Před 5 lety +23

      Yes this is true, well documented as well, over a million Muslims were slaughtered and when genghis came to the Muslims he told them that because of there failure to fulfill ther duties to God, is the reason why he was able to rule over them. What a statement..that I agree with and I'm a Muslim

    • @strengthhonour8594
      @strengthhonour8594 Před 4 lety +1

      @@hdakahidef Why do they bring God into this?

  • @user-wm9mt6th9s
    @user-wm9mt6th9s Před 4 lety +109

    Their dark age was our golden age

    • @TheLegendSpeaker
      @TheLegendSpeaker Před 4 lety +57

      It was arguably the golden age of human civilization. There hasn't been a single time in human history where knowledge was prioritized to a scale similar to how it was during the Golden age of Islam.
      Countries are divided today more than ever, and almost no country puts this much emphasis on knowledge.
      Today the world is all about prioritizing money, power, and military.

    • @abhiprakash74999
      @abhiprakash74999 Před 4 lety +25

      And our golden age is ur dark one . Sadly . I hope we can all , everyone in the world , enjoy the golden age in the future

    • @user-wm9mt6th9s
      @user-wm9mt6th9s Před 4 lety +8

      @@abhiprakash74999 sure but ur government would let us enjoing the golden age togther now and in the future????????????

  • @husseinbulehlib6607
    @husseinbulehlib6607 Před 5 lety +326

    "When Arabic was the language of science" Neil Degrass Tyson

  • @engineered.mechanized
    @engineered.mechanized Před 4 lety +175

    Excellent, I am a Muslim and an Engineer and about to start my Master's degree in Mechatronics this september 2020. Continuing their legacy in faith and in science.

  • @workguy2275
    @workguy2275 Před 6 lety +173

    I remember watching Neil Degrass Tyson in a lecture years ago mention that there was a period of time when education fluorished in after the prophet died. But hearing about it in detail is fascinating. These guys were smart!

    • @wb8695
      @wb8695 Před 6 lety +40

      "after the prophet died" implies he was against it... on the contrary, his teachings planted the seeds for it.

    • @workguy2275
      @workguy2275 Před 6 lety +19

      Wasn't implying anything bro, just saying back what I heard.

    • @tasinal-hassan8268
      @tasinal-hassan8268 Před 6 lety +5

      He was wrong in so many ways.

    • @herodotus945
      @herodotus945 Před 6 lety +6

      Didnt Muhammed claimed that sperm is located in the back and that the Earth is flat like a rug ?

    • @tasinal-hassan8268
      @tasinal-hassan8268 Před 6 lety +30

      +Herodotus 94 no.

  • @deathdoor
    @deathdoor Před 6 lety +532

    And then the Mongols went and OBLITERATED Baghdad from existence.The greatest tragedy of the story of all humanity.

    • @sebuktegin4403
      @sebuktegin4403 Před 6 lety +32

      Panino Manino How about when Muslim Turks burnt the Library at Nalanda in India and razed the 2000 year old university to the ground, while killing all the teachers and the Brahmins on the spot.

    • @azmeeimtihan586
      @azmeeimtihan586 Před 6 lety +56

      Nalanda library still existed that time? :3

    • @Damo2690
      @Damo2690 Před 6 lety +26

      L I B A R A Y O F A L E X A N D R I A

    • @jsaba3521
      @jsaba3521 Před 6 lety

      What abut it?

    • @neneklampir6664
      @neneklampir6664 Před 6 lety +5

      Cough *The Library of Alexanderia* Cough *It could make our Civilization rum faster* Cough

  • @sarahm8997
    @sarahm8997 Před 4 lety +40

    Wake up! O Ummah, Keep Going and Shine Again!

  • @mattmacaulay2900
    @mattmacaulay2900 Před 6 lety +1113

    Anyone who denies the greatness of the early Islamic caliphates is clearly mistaken.

    • @pienmash7495
      @pienmash7495 Před 6 lety +40

      Stolen knowledge, rewritten history. Come on, it's not that hard!

    • @nekotamo5154
      @nekotamo5154 Před 6 lety +13

      Kill those who deny medieval islamic science!
      Science akbar!
      :P

    • @herodotus945
      @herodotus945 Před 6 lety +11

      That greatness would not happen without Christian Nestorians who translated Greek book to Arabic.

    • @mtraa.942
      @mtraa.942 Před 6 lety +53

      Pien Mash
      Hey look I'm atheist !
      But really you can't deny that my ancestors had a great civilization
      I don't care about islam !
      Because most of these scientists were excited on charge of Heresy
      Islam is just like any abrahamic savage religion !
      And i know that the arabs translated some of the greek , Egyptian books
      But they also developed that science !
      Most of the basic of the modern science was made by the arabs !
      And there's countless inventions they made such as the camera , the clock ,many of the medical tools , the basic of mathematics , algebra , the arabic numerals and alot more
      Just please stop trying to Monopolize science on Europeans only!
      Or even try to strip us from our history !
      Because this is really disgusting and again this got nothing to do with islam !
      It's like saying Christianity what made the US great
      (even though there's alot of religious diversity there).

    • @spacetoon6ok
      @spacetoon6ok Před 6 lety +52

      You are right, childish individuals will always deal with absolutes, science is a continuous process with each era contributing a certain amount of knowledge and progress, their is no ideal society and will never be, Iron Age Hellenistic era, Roman Empire, islamicate world, Eastern and southeastern Asian nations, post medieval western world etc, non of them was a perfect utopia but all had contributed to the progress of the mankind, their is no good and evil such absolute vague terms are in children stories only.

  • @romessaa.1853
    @romessaa.1853 Před 6 lety +689

    Wow no hate comments iam impressed❤️

    • @xQixAni
      @xQixAni Před 6 lety +5

      R&R talks not yet

    • @ya3463
      @ya3463 Před 6 lety +3

      Sorry

    • @hamzahfrs6548
      @hamzahfrs6548 Před 6 lety +56

      R&R talks they run away when they see the truth as if you threw a grenade on them

    • @basilb2007
      @basilb2007 Před 5 lety +75

      They don't like facts. They like fake news.

    • @shaikhaalmeer2364
      @shaikhaalmeer2364 Před 5 lety +10

      just wait for it

  • @asimabdullah6188
    @asimabdullah6188 Před 6 lety +2455

    And then came the Mongols

    • @dchuhay
      @dchuhay Před 6 lety +108

      Eventually, yes. However, first came the fundamentalists.

    • @Seaoflife.
      @Seaoflife. Před 6 lety +101

      Adnan Bosnjak *dramatic mongol action scene from an old movie start playing*

    • @FarhatC28
      @FarhatC28 Před 6 lety +48

      They're the exception 😉

    • @kinghassan3122
      @kinghassan3122 Před 6 lety +167

      And then they converted to islam and became the ottoman empire

    • @pleasesubscribe7659
      @pleasesubscribe7659 Před 6 lety +18

      dchuhay don't bring lies here

  • @alvirarahman2690
    @alvirarahman2690 Před 4 lety +163

    We fell behind, it’s true. In the year 1258AD, Hülagu Khan with his huge Mongol Army completely razed Baghdad to the ground and set more than 36 of these priceless libraries on fire 😭😭😭
    Millions of scriptures were lost. Baghdad was the knowledge hub of the Muslims ❤️ it took centuries for Muslims to bounce back from that loss.
    Another thing I had wished this video included was that the VERY FIRST DEGREE GIVING UNIVERSITY was established by a Muslim woman. She paved the way for knowledge that is still in norm today. Ever wondered why the Graduation ceremony academic regalia looks like what a Muslim woman wears A.K.A Burqa? Well now you know 😊

    • @TheLegendSpeaker
      @TheLegendSpeaker Před 4 lety +6

      It was a knowledge hub of the world!

    • @alvirarahman2690
      @alvirarahman2690 Před 4 lety +17

      Jayant Rawat that’s not only a misinformation but it was also refuted by Joseph B Lumbard. The movement had no impact on science or academics. It’s literally on the Wikipedia. Go check before commenting

  • @malakhassan6626
    @malakhassan6626 Před 6 lety +142

    Love how unbiased and neutral crash course video are

  • @muazthunder
    @muazthunder Před 6 lety +125

    medieval times
    -al khawirzmi,al biruni,ibn abbas etc
    2018
    -Dj Khaled

    • @eddielookingbeautifulbravo8
      @eddielookingbeautifulbravo8 Před 5 lety +18

      another one

    • @saeedvazirian
      @saeedvazirian Před 5 lety +3

      Those were Persians, lmao!

    • @blackdedo93
      @blackdedo93 Před 5 lety +25

      ​@@saeedvazirian
      you clearly missed the point of the video, and even more clearly you didnt read @Puseman comment.
      maybe you should watch the video again!!
      ohh maybe i should tell you since you probably will not understand this.
      NO BODY MENTIONED ARABS HERE
      ITS "ISLAMIC", PERSIANS WERE MUSLIMS FYI
      Thanks :)

    • @zsway4632
      @zsway4632 Před 5 lety +4

      @@blackdedo93 Don't use Dj Khaled , he is a very bad influence to muslims.

    • @shapurthegreat8314
      @shapurthegreat8314 Před 5 lety +1

      blackdedo93
      Persians weren't mulsims.
      Zoroastrian or shia.
      Both of them nothing to do with arabs and their islam. Isolated.
      Even of you see other muslims don't consider iran as muslims because in reality they aren't muslim.

  • @camdenjones1246
    @camdenjones1246 Před 6 lety +50

    Amazing (and admittedly indescribably frustrating) how an engineering genius like Al-Jazari has gone completely untaught throughout all my years of schooling

  • @coalyboi7939
    @coalyboi7939 Před 5 lety +33

    I can't comprehend how some people can be so smart

  • @falnica
    @falnica Před 6 lety +113

    We are learning how science prospered, but i feel that we should also learn how science dwindled and was forgotten, and why, because we obviously don't want that to happen again

    • @saadshehadeh5579
      @saadshehadeh5579 Před 4 lety +7

      the mongols razed baghdad which set us back hundereds of years and then the europeans burned every single book in Al Andalus when they reqonquerd it.

    • @khalidalali186
      @khalidalali186 Před 4 lety +4

      Wrong. The Catholic monks revered any book they found written in Arabic, and led a great translation movement to Castilian and Latin in places like the university of Salamanca. Needless to say, that was in Spain alone, and even prior to the fall of Granada in 1492 by two centuries. Arabic books, were in demand all over Europe, from Thomas Aquinas in Italy, Albertus Magnus in Germany, and Siger of Brabant from what is modern day South Holland, and many many more.
      Furthermore, the sack of Baghdad in 1258 is pathetic excuse, as it wasn’t the Baghdad of the 9th century by any stretch of the imagination. Yes, it was still a huge metropolitan city, a very wealthy one too, but it lost its cosmopolitan essence centuries prior to the coming of Hulagu Khan. Oh, and the Abbasid Caliph ruled Baghdad and a few other towns and villages not far from it, making him the head of a city state, rather than what his ancestors from the 9th century ruled, a true empire spanning two continents. Stop repeating false information, and stop looking for simple answers. Do us all a favor, and read a few hundred books.

    • @ZetaFuzzMachine
      @ZetaFuzzMachine Před 4 lety +2

      @@khalidalali186 it is so nice to see people not just arguing to be right but to seek the truth! No matter what country, culture or religion you are. That insight and self-critic (self as in one's own cultural past) is what I'm all about. Also I just wanted to say that besides a slight xenophobia in my country (Spain) against Muslims, I'm proud to be studying astronomy, and wanted to thank all of these great scientists the Arab world brought us!!! Respect!!!

    • @khalidalali186
      @khalidalali186 Před 4 lety +8

      Of course! We all have to seek truth, and arguing about one’s heritage is futile, if one only focuses on something that occurred centuries ago, and one has nothing to do with that in anyway, especially by associating yourself to it, that’s not contribution. It stems from a sense of insecurity, because a tiny nation like spain a decade ago, was producing more patents than the whole Islamic World. My ancestors lived in Islamic Spain from 711-1518, they were Arab from Arabia, they mingled with the Visigothic Germans, Berbers, Slavs, and Roman Hispanics throughout those 807 years.
      There is xenophobia everywhere my friend, don’t be fooled, it’s just the Europeans that are made to feel bad about it, due to their high level of critical thinking, self-awareness, realizations, and self-criticism. I’m glad you are studying Astronomy, the heavens are filled with Arabic names due to these discoveries from long ago, but one is to find Greek, Roman, Hungarian, German, French, and English names too, as all these civilizations contributed to humanity on different stages of time. I wish you all the best!
      Greetings from a Cardiac Surgeon from Abu Dhabi 😋✌️🇦🇪🇪🇸
      Oh, and we have like 15,000 spaniards here and in Dubai, or maybe more.

  • @awaf12
    @awaf12 Před 6 lety +15

    As a Mesopotamian arab.. I love you.. I myself love science and was always an ambitious mathematician but wars made my main attention is securing my peaceful life and I still suffering from trauma and depression but I will be an inventor like my ancestors and I hate when people talk bad about my culture not knowing that there whole life is based on it .. I appreciate your existence hank

  • @truehope2344
    @truehope2344 Před 6 lety +160

    I just can't help but notice how adorable Hank is whenever he butchers the pronounciation of an arabic word, just too cute ^^

    • @zurryn
      @zurryn Před 5 lety

      Bag-dad. Gold stuff xD

    • @protoeuro
      @protoeuro Před 5 lety

      To be honest, his pronunciation of Mu3tazilism impressed me

  • @amiratlanta
    @amiratlanta Před 5 lety +35

    FINALLY! The contributions of Islamic scholars to the sciences and mathematics is invaluable. Thanks for doing this video in particular.

  • @huzaifafaheem6382
    @huzaifafaheem6382 Před 6 lety +281

    Damn, no ignorant people in the comments, guess if u want to stay ignorant u would never watch this channel!

    • @salami_boi3169
      @salami_boi3169 Před 5 lety +14

      so far i only found one, who calls ramadan a bloody month for some reason

    • @amigaamigo5307
      @amigaamigo5307 Před 5 lety +5

      Who’s the biggest fool the fool or the fool who follows a fool.

    • @n-carter4468
      @n-carter4468 Před 5 lety +13

      @@amigaamigo5307 you

    • @Monyato
      @Monyato Před 4 lety +1

      jim janssen it... is a month...

    • @anbynth2911
      @anbynth2911 Před 4 lety +1

      Slapfacegamer i think they understood it as a month where blood is shed, which is not true.

  • @cometmoon4485
    @cometmoon4485 Před 6 lety +765

    Ramadan Mubarak everyone! Have a nice month.

    • @themanfromtheeast2048
      @themanfromtheeast2048 Před 6 lety +8

      Ramadan Mbarak to you 2 brother\sister

    • @oof-rr5nf
      @oof-rr5nf Před 6 lety +2

      Cometmoon448 Same to you!

    • @99unclesam17
      @99unclesam17 Před 6 lety +4

      Arunima Tiwari Salam

    • @99unclesam17
      @99unclesam17 Před 6 lety +38

      Donato Marcello Radice Somebody watched a little toooo much Fox News.

    • @ahmedzerrouk9575
      @ahmedzerrouk9575 Před 6 lety +12

      Donato Marcello Radice can you give as the statistics and comparisons

  • @AhlusSunnahwalJamah
    @AhlusSunnahwalJamah Před 5 lety +75

    He didn’t mention Ibn Haytham, the first scientist who pretty much grandfathered the scientific method.

  • @yj9032
    @yj9032 Před 6 lety +634

    The Islamic world was modern then and medieval now

    • @Golha2505
      @Golha2505 Před 6 lety +9

      lol true

    • @Monyato
      @Monyato Před 5 lety +64

      Just another Bird ignorance, People that want power instead of knowledge, just reading one part of a religious text that coincidentally has violence in it and take it out of context and the revolve your whole life around it... people not teaching their children.

    • @amerlad
      @amerlad Před 5 lety +27

      @Just another Bird it's really sad, i live in the arab world, and i see all the ignorance and misinformation, it's honestly sickening, but there's still hope, hope in the new generation, the educated bunch.

    • @1989Nihil
      @1989Nihil Před 5 lety +18

      @Just another Bird The discovery of new trade routes, as well as finding the americas largly contributed to the down-fall of the Islamic Golden Age. You see, there is a correlation between trade and willingness to exchange not only goods, but also knowledge. There is a reason why a country's port-cities, or trade centres in general are more liberal in their world-view then the rest of the country. Back to the topic: The arabic-islamic world basically held monopol to the access of goods from the rest of Asia, such as spices, frankincense ect. that european kingdoms needed/wanted. All that stuff needed to take the Silk Road to get to the purchaser, which lead through the arab-islamic realms. However, once it was discovered by western powers (thanks to maps created by making use of the work of arabic-islamic schoolars), that you could get direct access to spices and stuff from Sri Lanka, India ect. by taking the sea-route and thus by-passing the large trade centres of the arab-islamic world, trade, and subsequently the exchange of knowledge began to decline rapidly. Even more so when the americas were discovered, and then exploited for their resources. So, with all the trade as good as gone (or rather reduced to an insignificant minimum, less then what was needed to sustain the endeavors of open minded Caliphs) from the arabic-islamic world also came political instability, which gave ample oppertunities for more radical and orthodox factions of the islamic world to grab for power themselves, and lastingly transform the face of the arab-islamic world, some of which we can still see today. But not all of that was bad either, though. Iraq for example, before the baseless US-invasion in '03, had one of the wolrd's best education systems, as well as a functioning health-care system the USA could only hope to have, all of which could be traced back to the Islamic Golden Age. Hospitals and health-care in general also flurished greatley during the Arab-Islamic Golden Age, which would have made Hippocrates of Kos and Galenos shed happy tears.

    • @1989Nihil
      @1989Nihil Před 5 lety +3

      @Blue Gh That only happened once the Golden Age was over, and political instability had settled in, which in turn was fueled by the rapid decline of trade through the Silk Road. I suggest you go read Peter Frankopan's Book _The Silk Road_ .

  • @khalilaidani8005
    @khalilaidani8005 Před 6 lety +5

    I live in an Arab-Muslim country and this is my official Arabic literature program. This video is very helpful. Thank you Crash Course, your blessings have reached another part of the world.

  • @raqiyaahmedjibriil3647
    @raqiyaahmedjibriil3647 Před 6 lety +189

    Woow! This is really cool! I didn't know all of this I am so excited to know more.
    Your excitement is so infectious Hank. Keep up the good work.

    • @raqiyaahmedjibriil3647
      @raqiyaahmedjibriil3647 Před 6 lety +4

      T'chaylet Handel I love history and I believe the knowledge we have today came from the hard work and contributions of many amazing people and they all deserve to be acknowledged. I think that crash course team is doing amazing job.

  • @Explore_Pakistan
    @Explore_Pakistan Před rokem +9

    scientific and philosophical revolutions in the West
    like industrial revolution and Renaissance could never happen if it was not for the work done by the great great Muslim scientists of the middle ages.
    So please make a video which is not Biased..

  • @washingtonirving9951
    @washingtonirving9951 Před 6 lety +159

    Came here for the comments saying "Came here for the comments" or *sips tea, eats popcorn*

    • @antivanti
      @antivanti Před 6 lety +2

      ...stayed for the comments saying they came for the comments saying they came here for the comments or sips tea, eats popcorn

    • @danieldossantos5868
      @danieldossantos5868 Před 6 lety +3

      the comments are fairly peaceful unfortunately.

  • @camiloiribarren1450
    @camiloiribarren1450 Před 6 lety +734

    Islamic natural philosophy, also known as physics. Love to learn more. Thanks, Hank

    • @Yusuf-gh4xg
      @Yusuf-gh4xg Před 6 lety +76

      Donato Marcello Radice Just stop! Your statement have no source's, It's quite sad really. I reccomend Citing your sources before stating them.

    • @404Dannyboy
      @404Dannyboy Před 6 lety +12

      Then cite your sources for that not being the case. Incidentally in regards to actual physics he is mostly correct. The Islamic world made amazing advances in medicine, math, and astronomy... but not so much in physics. It should also be noted that most of the knowledge Islam had OVER the West during the middle ages was a result of them preserving Greek and Roman sources that the West had lost.

    • @marathonman1205
      @marathonman1205 Před 6 lety +40

      Roman sources ? Haha the Romans were not interested at all in sciences. They were great soldiers and thieves.

    • @theadel8591
      @theadel8591 Před 6 lety +15

      404Dannyboy you didn’t tell us a new thing my friend, every generation of science build its knowledge on the previous generations. Nothing comes from nothing.

    • @beastvader
      @beastvader Před 5 lety +28

      Jarlaxle Daerthe Did you even watch the beginning of the video? Or do you simply enjoy living in ignorance?

  • @sisteray3539
    @sisteray3539 Před 5 lety +14

    I hate how we never learned any of this at school. I hope it's part of the curriculum now. Great upload guys!

    • @muazthunder
      @muazthunder Před 5 lety

      yes and the westerner call us brainwashed even tho we studied both western and eastern history.And they just learn the western.And they called us brainwashed?

  • @CoffeewithCue
    @CoffeewithCue Před 6 lety +333

    I love this topic id love to see more islamic videos. I am a history major trying to find a middle eastern studies grad school in the US and they are fairly rare. Its a shame they dont teach any of this stuff in the west enough, so its almost like you are re-learning history since this subject is rarely taught indepth outside of a designated college classroom. the near east is so rich in culture. I enjoyed watching this one i learned something new.

    • @fromthe4621
      @fromthe4621 Před 6 lety +9

      Queonnah-latrice Coleman maybe some college in Turkey has that knowledge u seek

    • @CoffeewithCue
      @CoffeewithCue Před 6 lety +13

      iYoteOn aPineapple i wanted to stay in the US for schooling for now. I dont think im ready to leave my country for reaseach just yet but you are totally right they have amazing schools in turkey, ive seen great ones in england, egypt the list goes on. They have a few in the US but they are at top tier ivy leauge schools either that or they are expensive to go to lol but when i look overseas i see much more opportunites to study in the area.

    • @soukainatips3204
      @soukainatips3204 Před 6 lety +33

      Queonnah-latrice Coleman it's a shame they don't want to teach people about how muslims contributes to civilization, the first university in the world was build in Fes Morocco. I hope you found a good school here in the US

    • @Tsukiko.97
      @Tsukiko.97 Před 6 lety +11

      Though it is best to get your information from primary source may I recommended the CZcams Channel *Caspian Report*. He has a series that goes into a brief overview of the history of Islam and the role of Islam in science.

    • @CoffeewithCue
      @CoffeewithCue Před 6 lety +20

      Soukaina Bensghir it really is isnt. But you know the west. We like to depict the middle east like its a wasteland, africa like everybody has no shoes and is absolute poor. If it has no immedaite relations to european affairs than it must be not worth anything they feel. smh!!! I have found a few programs but i need to get learning theres so much achievement to cover!!! Lol

  • @ahmarsaeed6085
    @ahmarsaeed6085 Před 5 lety +24

    A Robot Band in 1206???
    I don't know what to say.

  • @yasserel911
    @yasserel911 Před 6 lety +331

    You never regret subscribing to this channel.

  • @mbmr4064
    @mbmr4064 Před 5 lety +17

    Thank you for the video, I really liked it. I’m from the middle-east, Saudi Arabia.

    • @emperorkaido8539
      @emperorkaido8539 Před 4 lety +3

      oooo saudi arabia which is compiting with turkey on who will lead the arab world to destruction

  • @michaelemouse1
    @michaelemouse1 Před 6 lety +45

    Can we hear the "instrument that plays by itself"?

  • @mayarhesham8416
    @mayarhesham8416 Před 6 lety +345

    Wow.. I am amazed at how respectful the video is 💜
    Love from Egypt 😍

    • @TheTariqibnziyad
      @TheTariqibnziyad Před 6 lety +33

      Mayar Hesham dont worry its not a video about islam, its about science, the opposite of islam

    • @LuisSierra42
      @LuisSierra42 Před 6 lety +20

      how respectful? you expected Crash Course to start insulting people?

    • @mayarhesham8416
      @mayarhesham8416 Před 6 lety +22

      Luis Sierra of course not that's why I clicked it immediately when I saw the notification.. Coz I know that I will enjoy every moment of it... But I mean there's other videos which are not that respectful ✌

    • @danieldanieldadada
      @danieldanieldadada Před 6 lety +9

      this channel could talk about dog barf respectfully

    • @mayarhesham8416
      @mayarhesham8416 Před 6 lety +38

      Ibnziyad Tariq I think u didn't bay attention... Coz all those scientific inventions were based on the service of Islam and the Islamic society and to understand Allah and Islam better... And because of the life style of Islam as a religion and as a society all of that was possible.. ✌

  • @randomness2622
    @randomness2622 Před 6 lety +451

    in the immortal words of a great islamic philiosopher, by the name of DJ Khaled..
    "We da best"

  • @whootoo1117
    @whootoo1117 Před 5 lety +5

    This is what the world needs. This is the most intensive positive vibe plus history without impartiality

  • @Noververify
    @Noververify Před 4 lety +13

    Al Jazari: *builds a robot musical band*
    DJ Khaled: "Congratulations, you played yourself"

  • @samiai8905
    @samiai8905 Před 5 lety +4

    I'm so glad this history is being more out-spoken. It really is amazing. Please make a separate Crashcourse section for Islamic History! It would help so many out!

  • @TheKilla1777
    @TheKilla1777 Před 5 lety +6

    You deserve the most in the world for being unbiased and so loving of history to not put bs in it

  • @hadiyahkhan76
    @hadiyahkhan76 Před 6 lety +12

    I just love watching/hearing him mispronouncing the words and names. It is very entertaining.

  • @elaunamarie5113
    @elaunamarie5113 Před 5 lety +9

    Thank you for your accurate and unbiased explanations. Your videos are both informative and entertaining. I'm a big fan!

  • @mariakhan6090
    @mariakhan6090 Před 4 lety +7

    I literally jumped on hearing the precision of the circumference measurement

  • @TheKasimkage
    @TheKasimkage Před 6 lety +8

    I was so happy to see this video. Finally, something positive with a Muslim face on it. And the unstoppable smile on my face that grew during the part with the astrolabes! It’s truly a shame that we don’t learn/hear more about this stuff more often.

  • @MuniraHoosain
    @MuniraHoosain Před 6 lety +372

    Finalllyyyyy!!! A history of science that acknowledges Muslim contributions 🙌🙌🙌🙌👏👏👏👏

    • @Nightspyz1
      @Nightspyz1 Před 6 lety +29

      Munira Hoosain and what do they contribute now?

    • @naciremasti
      @naciremasti Před 6 lety +20

      what do christians contribute? pillage, plinder?

    • @thehh5118
      @thehh5118 Před 6 lety +2

      Munira Hoosain agreed.

    • @thehh5118
      @thehh5118 Před 6 lety +18

      Nightspyz1 lol like having professions in various different fields of work, like every other person? This video is talking about historical contributions.

    • @naciremasti
      @naciremasti Před 6 lety +1

      probably because shes not a bigot.

  • @99unclesam17
    @99unclesam17 Před 6 lety +184

    Wait for it...
    The Mongols. Dang it😥

    • @roha1329
      @roha1329 Před 6 lety +2

      Uncle Sam, Usually they are the exception.

    • @samm.6060
      @samm.6060 Před 5 lety

      Hey uncle Sam

    • @user-cs9cm8eb1y
      @user-cs9cm8eb1y Před 5 lety +4

      هههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههه😂😭

    • @a_bone_in_the_ocean2276
      @a_bone_in_the_ocean2276 Před 5 lety +7

      And then its Uncle sam

    • @user-kk5jk2xz4b
      @user-kk5jk2xz4b Před 5 lety +2

      @@user-cs9cm8eb1y يحول يالعتبان بكل مكان الاقيكم 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

  • @kzma009
    @kzma009 Před 4 lety +6

    You summarised a lot in this amazing recaps. And your enthusiasm got me enlightened 🔥🔥

  • @Msferedrose
    @Msferedrose Před 5 lety +3

    Thank you John and Hank for what you do. Your videos are essential viewing for EVERYONE right now, to recognise how our modern civilisation is informed by scholars from numerous cultural and religious backgrounds. It is beyond refreshing to see your depictions of Islamic-garbed cartoons as this was and is a civilisation absolutely RICH in its scholars - such a contrast to how we see Muslims depicted in mainstream media. You guys rock, keep it up !

  • @TheR971
    @TheR971 Před 6 lety +299

    Last time I was this early, the Islamic world was still looked up to by the western.

    • @Sigzyl
      @Sigzyl Před 6 lety +5

      Roman Riesen Ooooh good one

    • @Tsukiko.97
      @Tsukiko.97 Před 6 lety +32

      recesspieces I am against religious fundamentalism but do understand that all abrahamic faiths lived relatively peacefully in the past. You can thanks the Sykes-Picot agreement which was commenced by western nations as catalyst in spawning the religious fundamentalism you see today.

    • @sdushdiu
      @sdushdiu Před 6 lety +26

      LMAO! You obviously missed the history of Islamic oppression in the Balkans under the Ottomans that lead to the Bosnian war.....

    • @tasinal-hassan8268
      @tasinal-hassan8268 Před 6 lety

      +sdushdiu What's wrong with conquest?

    • @redkiller3129
      @redkiller3129 Před 6 lety +7

      Because Bosnians and Ottomans caused WW1 too, amright?

  • @Daniel-wd2ir
    @Daniel-wd2ir Před 6 lety +1

    Absolutely one of the best CZcams channels! Thank you so much for the content and the amount of dedication put into these videos!

  • @jeninabuhijelh699
    @jeninabuhijelh699 Před 6 lety +8

    I like how he mentioned that the prophet mohammed, blessing and peace be upon him, passed away when islamic empower happened.

  • @mohammadalawad1928
    @mohammadalawad1928 Před 5 lety +12

    Thanks for you all for your nice comments!!.I am glad that people can understand and admire our culture as a part of the overall human civilization progress

    • @mohammadalawad1928
      @mohammadalawad1928 Před 5 lety +2

      @Dont Worry Now, it doesn't matter if he existed or not what matters that there are around 1.8B Muslims in the world.

  • @zelenplav1701
    @zelenplav1701 Před 6 lety +9

    A mechanical clock was presented to the King of France, who thought there was an evil spirit in it.

  • @SohanDsouza
    @SohanDsouza Před 5 lety +12

    4:06 Peak nerd in the ancient world: when you demand scientific texts as war loot.

  • @fatimamahmoud4261
    @fatimamahmoud4261 Před 6 lety +1

    I was looking forward to this class the whole course, thanks for making it

  • @TeachingandLearningOnline
    @TeachingandLearningOnline Před 6 lety +17

    Great treatment of this era in the history of science! And wouldn't it be wonderful is translation was still held in such high esteem!

  • @DarkshadowXD63
    @DarkshadowXD63 Před 6 lety +49

    When the Europeans where in there dark ages the Middle East guided by Islam experienced a almost golden age of knowledge. Now it seems it has been flipped I wonder for how long. I have been waiting for this channel to speak about Islam and its role of continuing the study of knowledge in the past. Speaks volumes of how now some followers are extremist that seek to destroy the learning of ancient texts and sites.

    • @BlockMechanics
      @BlockMechanics Před 6 lety +13

      I'd imagine its because what happened in the Europe during the middle ages happened to the Middle East in the last few decades; the sudden growth of religious fundamentalism and rampant corruption within the ruling classes (both authority and in the clergy), leading to uneducated (especially in the actual texts of Islam) extremists whose only wearing the rotting skin of what they profess, making a mockery of the whole religion.
      And trust me, as a muslim this frustrates me in levels I can't even describe.

    • @camiblack1
      @camiblack1 Před 6 lety +2

      It's more that the Muslim/Islamicate world were less divided being a relatively young empire/shared cultural grouping. The Carolingians had just barely consolidated Occitania (Southern France), Lombardia (most of Northern Italy, sans Venice), the low countries, and a big part of Germany (basically everything but what would have been East Germany). Plus all the problems that the ERE had with the Slavs, Turkish peoples, Persians, Magyars, Arabs, Armenians, as well as having quite a few weak emperors.

    • @Tsukiko.97
      @Tsukiko.97 Před 6 lety +3

      The medieval world was not in a dark ages because of there being no prosperity it was instead called so because literacy rates were low. But being illiterate does not mean that you are either unintelligent or uneducated.

    • @3DArchery
      @3DArchery Před 6 lety +4

      "When the Europeans where in there dark ages" - Really? I think that those who lived on the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine) would disagree with you. In those "Dark Ages" you refer too, they built the Hagia Sophia.

    • @camiblack1
      @camiblack1 Před 6 lety +1

      3D Archery unfortunately the time period they're talking about also included the Heraclian and Iusarian dynasties which saw the Empire reduced to an Anatolian rump state with a handful of places in Greece and Italy, only being brought out of it in the late-early and early-high Medieval petiod. Oh and Dark Ages isn't used as a time frame, the proper is late migration period (mostly overlaps with the early part of the early medieval fall to about 650 or so) early medieval (fall-1000 with the most part being post Charlemagne) high medieval (1000-around 1300), and late medieval (around 1300-about 1450).

  • @himbolastname6379
    @himbolastname6379 Před 5 lety +2

    I swear this channel is the only thing saving my grade. Keep up the good work!

  • @Mohammed_125
    @Mohammed_125 Před 6 lety +2

    This is a great video. I was not aware of those scientific advancements. Thanks!

  • @fahimzahir9587
    @fahimzahir9587 Před 5 lety +4

    Thanks for bringing light to Islamic scholars and teaching. It means a lot when people can have a different view given everything going on these days.

  • @samarah.2945
    @samarah.2945 Před 5 lety +3

    They had amazing ethics, appreciation, team work and wisdom back then.....The world truly ended after that period and we began an alternate route. Great video guys and good effort for the pronunciation. :)

  • @makeupbyushna3085
    @makeupbyushna3085 Před 6 lety +2

    I learnt about history of science in medieval Islamic era in school but never new about the robots thing. This is seriously amazing.

  • @talismann44
    @talismann44 Před 4 lety

    How things where so natural and evolving for all humanity, now I'm on tears

  • @idonttellmyhearttobeatbuti97

    Thanks for covering this enriched aspect of the Muslims. Always a pleasure knowing,learning.....from Crash Course.

  • @commie563
    @commie563 Před 5 lety +14

    If I ever get to travel in time, I would save the library from mongols

  • @deniseglines8239
    @deniseglines8239 Před 6 lety

    I enjoy this series so much, thank you!

  • @KnuxTube
    @KnuxTube Před 6 lety +2

    The Al-Jazari sequence was literally stunning. I need to research further into the robotics.

  • @yuatfan4864
    @yuatfan4864 Před 6 lety +26

    Please make more episodes on Muslim history science

  • @fahid4219
    @fahid4219 Před 5 lety +13

    1:56
    I am from Baghdad-Iraq-Mesopotamia

  • @haniashoaib13
    @haniashoaib13 Před 6 lety +1

    Awesome Video! These inventions and discoveries need to be shared! ☺️😁

  • @abdallababikir4473
    @abdallababikir4473 Před 5 lety

    What a comprehensive video! I was mind blown!

  • @ghadyahmad2031
    @ghadyahmad2031 Před 5 lety +5

    So proud my ancestors! Al-jazry you are the best!!

  • @kieranmcgarvey6792
    @kieranmcgarvey6792 Před 6 lety +6

    this video was really good : )

  • @empresshedo9350
    @empresshedo9350 Před 6 lety

    Amazing video, thank you for your hard work!

  • @prg2457
    @prg2457 Před 4 lety

    amazing video full of forgotten jewels of knowledge , great job man, thanks

  • @Phylonyous
    @Phylonyous Před 5 lety +4

    LOL, I love the mariachi floating band!

  • @Muneeb__Arain
    @Muneeb__Arain Před 4 lety +5

    *Those who think that Islamic Golden Age lasted in the 13th century may be wrong. Don't forget to mention the Mughal Empire who has the biggest economy in the world and use to contribute 24% of whole world's GDP and was the biggest Trader in the world until the 18th century. And, Another such Empire was the Ottoman Empire which lasted till the 20th century.*
    *Even today there are many richer Muslim nations in the world.*

  • @tariqsattar5540
    @tariqsattar5540 Před 4 lety

    You are doing wonderful job, sharing lost knowledge and much under-appreciated in today's world.

  • @morrgash
    @morrgash Před 6 lety

    Such a great review of that golden era, one day we will return to that point!

  • @kawaiiobama8079
    @kawaiiobama8079 Před 6 lety +25

    the caspian report made a 1 hour video on this topic. it's really good.

    • @Tsukiko.97
      @Tsukiko.97 Před 6 lety +3

      I have been referring people to that video in some comment threads, I enjoyed it very much.

    • @Aazammm
      @Aazammm Před 5 lety

      Link?

  • @unpopularopinion6200
    @unpopularopinion6200 Před 6 lety +13

    I'm sure there will be civil discussions here

  • @souhail208
    @souhail208 Před 6 lety

    verry interesting info; thank you so much guys.

  • @carlewen-lewis3305
    @carlewen-lewis3305 Před 6 lety +2

    Wow, this was amazing, up there with the Americas episode. Can't wait for the next one.

  • @XxPlayMakerxX131
    @XxPlayMakerxX131 Před 5 lety +3

    You guys outdid yourself on this one

  • @rauf3192
    @rauf3192 Před 4 lety +6

    If the library in Baghdad weren't burnt the world would have witnessed a different world,more knowledge and wisdom...

  • @os44881616
    @os44881616 Před 6 lety

    Favourite series so far!

  • @tokujinsicura9507
    @tokujinsicura9507 Před 6 lety

    I had to watch this twice.. all of this is just incredible!!

  • @szlonkobusjbusj3819
    @szlonkobusjbusj3819 Před 6 lety +33

    Despite beeing the root for the word France, the Frankish Empire was not "France" as you claim in your video.
    The elephant was taken to Aachen, which is today in Germany.

    • @mohamedhamza456
      @mohamedhamza456 Před 6 lety +6

      Indeed, Aachen was the capital of Karl Magnus aka Charlemagne.

    • @khairiaris
      @khairiaris Před 5 lety +2

      The Arabs referred to Western Europeans as “Franks” regardless where they came from. Because of you know, the crusades.. Most of the first crusaders came from Frankish regions..

    • @khairiaris
      @khairiaris Před 4 lety +2

      @Ganda Bacha In Malay Peninsula.. When the Portuguese first arrived, the Malays called them Feringi, which originated from Arabic word for Franks too

  • @TeachingandLearningOnline
    @TeachingandLearningOnline Před 6 lety +36

    Yay, the no dark age insight! So glad to hear this. Great job here!

    • @hohohohoh4043
      @hohohohoh4043 Před 5 lety +5

      donato muslims must read quran once every 3 days at least else it becomes Hajr, which is pretty bad in sharia, very bad. all muslims were obligated to learn, reading and writing was the bare minimum. and because of the nature of islam, eliticism was strictly prohibited
      when u look into history try to be a lil bit unbiased, and never project your history on others

    • @allangazali5025
      @allangazali5025 Před 4 lety

      @@hohohohoh4043 you're not muslim ,i'm pretty sure with this.

    • @allangazali5025
      @allangazali5025 Před 4 lety

      @@hohohohoh4043 when we have a golden age you have a dark age .. hoho hoho

    • @hohohohoh4043
      @hohohohoh4043 Před 4 lety

      @@allangazali5025 what do u mean m not a muslim ?

  • @THEEck5000
    @THEEck5000 Před 5 lety

    great video!..we're so blessed to get this type of content for such a low price...

  • @Laura-qp9iw
    @Laura-qp9iw Před 6 lety

    I love how much Hank is nerding out over this