ALMOHADS

ălˈməhădz, Berber Muslim dynasty that ruled Morocco and Spain in the 12th and 13th cent. It had its origins in the puritanical sect founded by Ibn Tumart, who stirred up (c.1120) the tribes of the Atlas Mts. area to purify Islam and oust the Almoravids. His successors, Abd al-Mumin, Yusuf II, and Yakub I, succeeded in conquering Morocco and Muslim Spain, and by 1174 the Almohads had completely displaced the Almoravids. With time the Almohads lost some of their fierce purifying zeal; Yakub had a rich court and was the patron of Averroës. Yakub defeated (1195) Alfonso VIII of Castile in the battle of Alarcos, but in 1212 the Almohad army was defeated, and Almohad power in Spain was destroyed by the victory of the Spanish and Portuguese at Navas de Tolosa. In Morocco they lost power to the Merinid dynasty, which took Marrakech in 1269.

See studies by Abd al-Wahid al Marrakushi 1881, repr. 1968) and R. Le Tourneau (1969).

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The Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Handbook
Book by Clifford Edmund Bosworth; Edinburgh University Press, 1967
Subjects: Islamic Countries--History--Outlines, Syllabi, Etc, Islamic Countries--Kings And Rulers
...28 12. The Almohads or al-Murh h bidun 30...reign Spanish conquest After the Almohads abandoned Spain, most of the Muslim...and H ammadid territories passed to the Almohads. BIBLIOGRAPHY . Lane Poole, 39...
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A History of Medieval Spain
Book by Joseph F. O'Callaghan; Cornell University Press, 1975
Subjects: Portugal--History--Period Of Discoveries, 1385-1580, Portugal--History--To 1385, Spain--History--711-1516, Spain--History--Gothic Period, 414-711
...215 10. The Duel with the Almohads 234 11. Government, 1031-1212...Arabs and Berbers in the eighth century, the Almoravids and Almohads in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Marinids in the...
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A History of Islamic Spain
Book by W. Montgomery Watt; Edinburgh University Press, 1965
Subjects: Spain--History--711-1516
...Almoravids in Spain 97 Chapter 8 The Berber Empires : The Almohads 1. Ibn-T t and the Almohad movement 103 2. Spain under the Almohads to 1223 105 3. The progress...
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The Latin Chronicle of the Kings of Castile
Book by Joseph F. O'Callaghan; Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2002
Subjects: Castile (Spain)--History
...Leon-Castile (1126-1157) 11 6 The Coming of the Almohads 13 7 Alfonso VIIs Separation of...Saracens 90 45 Civil War among the Almohads in Morocco and Spain 92 46 Fernando...Rebellion of Ibn Hud of Murcia against the Almohads 106 54 The Mission of Cardinal Jean...
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Dictionary of Islamic Architecture
Book by Andrew Petersen; Routledge, 1999
...more before being overthrown by the Almohads, another Berber group with similar origins. Like their predecessors the Almohads too had early successes, but did...built in the twelfth century by the Almohads and which protects the western end...
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Walking the Tightrope between Memory and History: Metaphor in Tahar Djaout's L'invention Du Désert
Journal article by Raji Vallury; Novel, Vol. 41, 2008
Subjects: Books, Ideology, Metaphor, Novels, Poetry, Politics, Reading, Studies
...the spiritual leader and founder of the Almohads, the hordes that supplanted the Almoravid...the histories of the Almoravids and the Almohads cannot therefore be disentangled from...victorious defense of Marrakech against the Almohads, the return of Ibn Toumert to the mountains...
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A Unique Bilingual Surrender Treaty from Muslim-Crusader Spain
Journal article by Robert I. Burns, Paul E. Chevedden; The Historian, Vol. 62, 2000
Subjects: Arabs in Spain--History, Capitulations, Military--History, Crusades--History, Spain--History, Treaties--History
...armies of the North African Berber empires of the Almoravids and Almohads held sway.(18) The tenth-century eastern visitor Ibn Hawqal...Cordoba and the North African empires of the Almoravids and Almohads, "the local people could not mount a successful resistance...
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From Azulejos to Zaguanes: The Islamic Legacy in the Built Environment of Hispano-America
Journal article by R. Brooks Jeffery; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 45, 2003
Subjects: Buildings, Buildings--History, Buildings--Religious aspects, Islam, Islam and politics, Islam and politics--Influence, Islam and politics--Social aspects, Islam--Influence, Islam--Social aspects, Mexican history--Analysis, Mexican history--Religious aspects, Mexico--History, Mexico--Religious aspects, North America--History, North America--Religious aspects, North American history--Analysis, North American history--Religious aspects
...Islamic dynasties ruled the Iberian Peninsula, including the Umayyads (711-750), Abbasids (750-1082), Almoravids (1082-1147), Almohads (1147-1184), and the Nasrids (1184-1492), producing many of Islamic architectures finest monuments: the Great Mosque of Cordoba...
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Artisans and Mathematicians in Medieval Islam
Journal article by George Saliba; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 119, 1999
Subjects: Architecture--History, Artisans--History, Islam--History, Mathematicians--History, The Topkapi Scroll: Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...along the lines of Ghazali himself, to document the contemporaneity of two phenomena, such as the "visual asceticism of the Almohads" and "that of the Cistercians" (p. 101), does not necessarily demonstrate any relationship between them beyond their contemporaneity...
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On Judicial Review in Islamic Law
Journal article by David S. Powers; Law & Society Review, Vol. 26, 1992
Subjects: Sociological Jurisprudence
...principalities into a centralized state with a distinct territorial identity ( Hopkins 1958; Lapidus 1988 :372-75). The Almohads were succeeded by the Marinids, a Berber dynasty of the Zanata group that captured Meknes (1244), Fez (1248), Sijilmasa...
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Symbol ...or Not
Magazine article by Majid Mohiuddin; Islamic Horizons, Vol. 35, January 2006
Subjects: Architecture, Islam, Islamic life & ethics, Muslims, Symbolism, Symbols
...the Almoravids (1056-1147 CE) and the Almohads (1130-1269 CE) from Western Sahara spread...Fatimids. Completed in 1153 CE by the Almohads, the Tinmal Mosque is located in the...not use "Sunni" minarets at all. The Almohads experimented and likely placed the Tinmal...
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AT WAR: Identity Unknown: The Case for Civilizational Confidence
Magazine article by John O'Sullivan; National Review, Vol. 53, November 19, 2001
Subjects: Civilization, Islamic--International aspects, Civilization, Western--International aspects, Islamic countries--Military aspects, Islamic fundamentalism--Military aspects, Western culture--International aspects
...guidebooks dont show an equal fervor in condemning the oppressive rule of later Moorish dynasties, like the Almoravids and the Almohads. This pro-Muslim bias is the result of several intellectual trends: the academic convention of cultural relativism; the tendency...
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Letters
Magazine article; The Nation, Vol. 274, May 27, 2002
...and Isabella, but its much-vaunted tolerance ended many years before, in the twelfth century, when power was seized by the Almohads, a fanatical Islamic sect from Morocco, which does bear comparison to the Taliban. They waged a campaign of terror on all Christians...
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Islamic Intolerance
Magazine article by Ibn Warraq; Free Inquiry, Vol. 13, Summer 1993
Subjects: Fanaticism--Religious aspects, Islam--Catechisms and creeds, Islamic law--Religious aspects, Religious life--Islam
...three thousand people) in Grenada was exterminated and a further five thousand were killed in Fez in 1033; in the twelfth, the Almohads of North Africa spread terror everywhere they went. In the thirteenth century, the Christians of Damascus were killed or...
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All aboard for the Marrakech Express: Morocco Was the First to Recognize America's Independence, and U.S. Tourists Won't Be Disappointed by a Visit to an Old Friend
Magazine article by Allen Bradford; Insight on the News, Vol. 12, January 15, 1996
Subjects: Casablanca, Morocco--Description and travel, Marrakech, Morocco--Description and travel, Morocco--Description and travel
...and ornaments. * Koutoubia mosque, the citys most famous landmark, a 231-foot-high tower built in the 12th century by the Almohads, who ruled North Africa and Muslim Spain. Similar towers were built at the same time in Seville, Spain, and Rabat, Moroccos...
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Little Charmer
Newspaper article; Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales), December 31, 2006
...room, while out under the sun, the graves of their servants are a blaze of tiles. Nearby, an earlier dynasty, the 12th Century Almohads, made an even greater mark - building the Koutoubia Mosque, whose 65m-high minaret dominates the skyline. But no trip would...


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Almohads
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ALMOHADS al m hadz, Berber Muslim dynasty that ruled Morocco and Spain in the 12th and 13th...II, and Yakub I , succeeded in conquering Morocco and Muslim Spain, and by 1174 the Almohads had completely displaced the Almoravids. With time the Almohads lost some of their fierce purifying zeal; Yakub had a rich court and was the patron of...
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Ibn Tumart
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
IBN TUMART i b n toomart , c.1080 1130, Berber Muslim religious leader, founder of the Almohads . He went to the East in his youth and returned convinced that he was the Mahdi and that he was destined to reform Islam. He...
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Abd Al-Mumin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ABD AL-MUMIN ab dal-mu min, d. 1163, founder of the empire of the Almohads . He was the favorite of the Almohad religious reformer Ibn Tumart and became (1130) his successor. Even before his rise to leadership...
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TÔrres Vedras
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...manufactures. The town was captured from the Moors by Alfonso I soon after he took Lisbon (1147) but was reconquered by the Almohads briefly in 1189. Torres Vedras was an important fortress and royal residence throughout the Middle Ages and was an important...
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Yakub I
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...al-Mansur the victorious after his victory over Alfonso VIII of Castile at Alarcos (1195). One of the most powerful of the Almohads , he encouraged art and literature and constructed many public buildings in both Spain and Morocco, notably the Giralda at...
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