This is episode 44 called Slavery and Jews of al-Andalus and in this episode you will learn:

SHOW NOTES

- Introduction to slavery in the Islamic world and al-Andalus

- What’s the difference between a captive and a slave

- Captivity for women and the social problem that captivity supposed

- Which were the occupations and jobs performed by slaves in al-Andalus

- Captivity and slavery in the context of the campaigns of Almanzor

- What determined the price of a slave and how were auctions and transactions done

- Jews under early Umayyad rule and the case of Eleazar of Zaragoza

- Why Jews in al-Andalus were Arabized but not Islamized

- A brief biography of the great foreign minister and physician Hasdai ibn Shaprut

- Jews under the Taifa kingdoms, the case of Samuel HaNagrid, and the Golden Age of Jewish culture

- The end of the Jewish golden age in al-Andalus, with the 1066 Granada Massacre and the arrival of the Almoravids

- The expulsion and forced conversions of Christians and Jews under the Almohads

- Why Jews were sometimes tolerated and sometimes suffered repression, understanding the political and economic logic behind it

- A reflection on the lives of captives and enslaved people