Radio War Nerd #255 — Arab Conquests, Part 4: Reign of Ali to Battle of Karbala
Guest: Aamer, podcaster & writer
Recorded: November 16, 2020
The final episode in our 4-part series on the early Arab Conquests, with popular guest Aamer. This episode begins with the doomed reign of Ali (656-661) through the epochal Battle of Karbala, the formative events in the Shia-Sunni divide through today.
*The Battle of Karbala
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Interlude music by Brendon Anderegg. Check out his group Mountains here.
Buy John Dolan's "The War Nerd Iliad" and his audiobook "Pleasant Hell".
Total time: 1:42:54
Comments (4)
Joined to enjoy the WN series and I am not disappointed! Thanks for all your hard work.
Late listener here, but my god, so fucking good!
loved this whole series, hope aamer's doing well and would love to hear him back for some other eps!
Great episode! Get Aamer to come back and do the Abbasids