106. The Rise of Islam

Empire

Jack Davenport

History

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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With the Sassanian Empire defeated and the Byzantine Empire exhausted, there is a power vacuum in the centre of the world. Both of these superpowers have drained their resources fighting each other over the past 30 years, consuming many of the great cities of antiquity. To the south, on the Arabian peninsula, a new power was rising that would come to take advantage of their weakness. A power that would change the course of history. Islam. Listen as William and Anita discuss the Rise of Islam. For bonus episodes, ad-free listening, reading lists, book discounts, a weekly newsletter, and a chat community. Sign up at https://empirepod.supportingcast.fm/ Twitter: @Empirepoduk Email: [email protected] Goalhangerpodcasts.com Producer: Callum Hill Exec Producer: Jack Davenport + Neil Fearn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you want access to bonus episodes reading lists for every series of empire, a chat community,
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0:14.4	W.
0:15.1	W. Empire pod me Anita Ireland.
0:23.0	Come on, say it. Hello, welcome to Empire with me Anisha Arlen.
0:32.8	Come on, say it.
0:33.8	I'm like from me, William Dr.
0:36.2	Dr.
0:37.1	With my mouthful.
0:38.1	Welcome, dear friends.
0:40.0	Look, we are here to pick up the baton from the last episode where we were talking about the great
0:46.5	clash of civilizations, the superpowers of antiquity who go up against each other and we're talking about a Byzantine and Persia and we're talking
0:58.5	about this war that involves some things which are so very important even to this day
1:05.2	is sort of icons of religion. So I mean we mentioned William that in this fight
1:10.0	between the Byzantine, Heraclius burns some of the temples of the Zoroastrians, the Persians, which contain the holy fires,
1:18.4	there are actual holy fires which are in here really very important to the Zoroastrian faith.
1:22.4	The eternal flames are destroyed in these. But also, you know, this story that we told last time
1:28.0	also involved as a starring role, the true cross, the one true cross, the cross that crucified Jesus.
1:35.4	The cross makes it back to Persia as a gift to Shereen from her loving husband
1:42.1	who is the King of Kings and then is taken back to Jerusalem by Heraclius as a muscle flex that you know by Zantheim really truly is the new Rome the protectors of the Christian faith.
1:52.2	But you left us at the end of the last episode
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