Sayyida al-Hurra: Moroccan Queen, Warrior & Sufi | Forgotten Muslim History | They Don't Teach This

Описание: Sayyida al-Ḥurra was a Moroccan queen, naval strategist, and Shādhilī Sufi leader whose story was erased from mainstream history. This video introduces her extraordinary life—shaped by Spain, Morocco, and Arabia—and explains why she became one of the most influential Muslim women of the 16th-century Mediterranean world.

They taught you about Queen Elizabeth.
They taught you about Columbus.

But they didn’t teach you about the woman who ruled Tétouan, negotiated with the Ottomans, and reshaped the balance of power after 1492.

Join Dr Jason Idriss Sparkes, poet and scholar of Islamic humanities, for a decolonial historical account based on years of research and a recent peer-reviewed article. Her life disrupts everything we think we know about Islam, women, power, and modernity.

They don’t teach you this in school.
But we remember.

This is the sixth video in the series “Why Don’t They Teach You This?”

Here is the link for the article by Dr. Sparkes "Sayyida al-Ḥurra: An Early Modern Decolonial Muslim Exemplar" https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16111362

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:36 The Cosmopolitan Woman
3:26 The Governor of Tetouan
4:32 The Naval Commander
5:39 The Queen
6:29 The Sufi
7:47 Share the Love
8:00 Conclusion

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Selected reading by Dr. Jason Idriss Sparkes
Dissertation
https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/2300/](https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/2300/

“Morocco as a Hub of Globalised Traditional Islam”
https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13050392

“Decolonizing the Left and the Right: Muslim Mistrust of Foxes and Wolves”
https://themaydan.com/2021/02/decolon...

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