Sayyida al-Hurra: The Mediterranean Pirate Queen

High Tales of History

Welcome to episode 86! We are celebrating our three year anniversary of the show with a topic that kicked it all off for us: a kickass female pirate.

In this episode we meet al-Sayyida al-Hurra, a queen of her city-state of Tétouan in present-day Morocco. Due to a lack of formal navy against the might of the Portuguese and Spanish fleets, she created one out of privateers and pirates. Her ragtag crews terrorized the European ships and the plunder from them gave her city unprecedented wealth.

For this episode, Laurel is flying solo but Kt will be back along with a special guest for episode 87 and our final episode of season three!

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https://www.medievalists.net/2022/08/pirate-queen-mediterranean-al-sayyida-al-hurra/

https://historiaislamica.com/en/sayyida-al-hurra-the-muslim-pirate-queen/

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