This will be a treat 🕌🇪🇸 The Moorish caliphates on the Iberian peninsula over a few hundred years produced such exquisite buildings and gardens and extraordinary strides in learning (mathematics, astronomy…)

Ever seen Jahangir holding a Mango ?? 🥭

Usually Jahangir have been portrayed holding a wine cup but Here is a RARE image of Prince Jahangir holding a mango, created in c.1760.
Image:- Sir John Soane's Museum 🏛️🖼️

Talking about this with James O'Brien at the end here: globalplayer.com/catchup/lbc/uk…

Excellent...look forward to these Dalrymple podcasts of Great Empresses.

Good grief! Almost sold out for our Empire Podcast live show! Just a handful of tickets left! At the Barbican! Which is huge! Join William Dalrymple and me - we may still be in a state of shock!

For those that do podcasts - unravelling the Middle East

Rather nice fore edge (the very ends of the pages) on this new book by William Dalrymple.

Empire Podcast anita anand **Empire Live**

The last one hundred Empire live show tickets are still ON SALE! Join Anita and William at the London Barbican 8 July 2024! Buy your tickets here:
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Listen Empire Podcast as William and anita anand are once again joined by Brian Catlos to listen to the Moor's Last Sigh
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In the epoch defining year of 1492, she also conquered Granada with her husband Ferdinand, ending the era of Islamic Spain, and gave patronage to Columbus as he took his first voyage to the new world.

Isabella began the Spanish Inquisition and brought to the fore a religious fundamentalism that would eventually force out of the country the muslims and the jews.

For centuries Spain had been an outlier in Europe due to its religious diversity; Christians, Jews, and Muslims all existed reasonably peacefully across the Iberian peninsula. Under Isabelle of Castile that all changed.

New Empire Podcast Episode:

Isabella of Castile & the Moor's Last Sight:
The Spanish Inquisition & the Conquest of Granada

New Empire Podcast episode:
Nur Jahan: The Most Powerful of Mughal Women

William Dalrymple Empire Podcast Isabella of Castile has been walking with me to school University of Canterbury this last couple of days! BTW, loving the focus on #women in #history : 👏🏿&🙏🏿 Empire Podcast for what you do considering the systemic erasure that has kept so many more out of/minimal mentions in records/archives.

William Dalrymple Empire Podcast Fabulous and I love your guest’s book. Truly illuminating and corrective to earlier histories.

3 out of 4 in, and like others i've listened to, incredibly informative, interesting and funny

Latest Empire Podcast on Isabella of Castile, Isabella the Catholic, likely the most powerful woman in Europe since the fall of Rome, but not otherwise given to being woke in any way. Great podcast.