The Moors in Spain

De: Stanley Lane-Poole

Narrado por: Rodney Louis Tompkins

The Moors in Spain is an overview of the Moorish conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. Stanley Edward Lane-Poole (1854 - 1931), the author, was a noted British archaeologist.

Public Domain (P)2020 Museum Audiobooks

Enlightening

I’ve knew little of the story and history of the Moors. After listening to this I’ve got to learn more of the history of the Moors.

Where are they now

I find the movie is fascinating. If they were such a learning people, why were they banished to begin with. It’s obvious they were interested in acclamation rather utter domination. Between one group ,tribe, clan or another this is still happening today in the 21st-century

Good review and context of events

The middle couple chapters were a challenge to maintain attention to, but overall the informant throughout the book was well explained and interesting.

They were way more advanced than the Europeans

I like the poetry the author draws on for a eyewitness point of view give and take the creativity of the poet. But most poems and songs are still social commentary today

Moors and Spain

Good overview on the history of the Moors, Spain, and religious conquests that lay the foundation to modern relationships between Christianity and Islam prior to the era of colonialism.

Mmmm. Great subject…but….

Most of my criticism is about the narrator-pronunciations are difficult, doesn’t read poetry well

Question some of the statements & wonder if there is a bibliography of primary & secondary sources.

Classic.,.

Shout out to....
Bro Panic..
Bobby Hemmitt ...
Dr Phil Valentine..
Bro C. Freeman El....
Dr Josef Ben-Jochannan....
Amen Ra KamKam...
Dr Khallid Muhammad...
Dr Ann Brown....
Dr Delbert Blair.....
Dr Timothy Owens Moore.
Dr Malachi Z York....
Dr Chancellor Williiams....
Jordan Maxwell...
Dr Ivan Van Sertima....
Richard D King MD....
Rev Ray Hagins......
Zoe Williams....
Young Pharaoh ....
PapaDuck ......
Runoko Rashidi....
Dr Walter Williams.,.
Grand Sheik Taj Tarik Bey....
Bill Donahue....
Cheikh Anta Diop....
Shahrazad Ali......
Gabriel Oyibo....
Kwame Ture......
Amos Wilson....
Marimba Ani....
Booker T. Coleman....
Williams Mackey.....
Rod Hayes....
Prof. James Small..,
Dr. Na'im Akbar....
Dr. Frances Cress Welsing....
Dr John Henrik Clarke ....
Dr Wade Nobles ....
Neely Fuller Jr..,
Steve Cokely,..
Gil Scott-Heronmmmm
Dr Alim El-Bey....

Perfect History

Inspired by the history of a people that became great & enshrined nobility. Well Done

Atrociously Flat Vocal Performance

This is one of the worst vocal performances I've ever heard. It is flat, dry, and uninspired. The forced pronunciation of very specific words is jarring and the pacing is off. There is no flow to this performance at all. It's SO BAD I can't even pay attention to what he is actually talking about, the complete history is completely missed.

Fraudulent & exploitative race-bait

Having graduated from University with a focus in Islamic Archaeology as well as visiting Andalusia, I was interested in this subject. There are few options for Islamic Spain available on Audible. Unfortunately, i decided to buy this one because it was on sale for $2.94 and i thought "What the heck?! I could use a little review in audio format".

Little did i know that i would be overpaying. My BS meter went into overdrive immediately both with the text and the narrator. The content itself was less of the issue as i am already fully aware of the subject and have a few books on my shelf covering the subject. I could see through the fawning (i.e. today we would call it pandering) praise. No big deal. The early Muslim dynasties were truly amazing, especially the Iberian ones. And the author is one of "those" British Orientalists from the 19th century (yes, this was written over 130 years ago). What really caused me to put down this audiobook was the narrator's inability to pronounce properly. It's one thing to mispronounce the Arabic words and/or Islamic dynasties (took me a minute to realize he was mispronouncing Fatimids) but it's another entirely to mispronounce Madrid (MaH-Dread). WtF!? This doesn't even address his overall reading mannerisms, which has been mentioned in previous reviews

Then, I stopped and started doing some internet sleuthing. Lo and behold, there are FOUR versions of this audiobook available on Audible!? And they've all been produced/published between 2018 & 2020!? All with different covers and narrators?! The ONE thing they have in common?! All the "Moors" on the covers are sub-saharan Africans. Then, i looked up the author and discovered he was an Orientalist from the 19th century!? What does that mean? Oh, it means his work is in the Public Domain, i.e. someone can "grab it" for themselves and stick a different cover on it or a different narrator on it and pretend it's original or new. Charge next to nothing for it on Audible, as the covers are either cheaply created and/or lifted from other sources (again, some public domain images appear on a couple covers), and how much does it cost to pay for a narrator who can't even pronounce the city of Madrid?! The only thing more reprehensible are some of the comments made by reviewers. Some are truly ignorant and don't know they've been had. Others are deceitfully duplicitous in THEIR fawning praise for the book (Look at some of the names associated with the high reviews). Not sure how many are true reviews or AI or fake accounts. Then, there are the BS Youtube videos, which use this book as a source.

I'm not sure how much of the information presented in the book is true or reliable, as i was unable to finish it (i don't have much patience or a high gag tolerance), nor did i waste my time watching any of the plethora of conspiracy BS Youtube videos. The author did make some mildly racist swipes at the Spanish who pushed the Muslims out (he makes derogatory comments about the Spanish then as well as the Spanish of today or HIS day anyways as backwards and that they would have been better to keep the Moors, but that's how stupid they were, blah, blah, blah). Amazon Music does allow for one free book a month now but I'm not willing to even waste that "free" credit on whoever is using a false presentation that Black Africans invaded Europe and were some kind of Atlantean (i.e, from the mythical island of Atlantis) people that had preternatural abilities and the world would be a better place if the Muslims had kept Spain and/or taken over the world.

FYI: the earliest Muslims were NOT all black! They came from Arabia picking up people/converts/opportunists as they moved along. North Africa is not majority black-skinned. And the majority of Sub-saharan Africans today are not Muslims!? Albeit, in places like Nigeria, Mali, and Burkina Faso the Muslim population is increasing under the yoke of various fundamentalists. I hear the women "love it". Look into historically how the Arabs have treated sub-saharan Blacks, even in the 20th century. Maybe you've heard of a thing called slavery. It's still purported to be practiced today in some Muslim countries, specifically IN Africa.

Frankly, Amazon should be ashamed to be making money off this fleecing of Muslims and Blacks (mostly american because i haven't met too many blacks of other nationalities that fall for this BS). But, everyone else is doing it (pandering and making money off the race-baiting), why shouldn't they?