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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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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Crisis and Leadership: Epistles of Maimonides
Book by Moses Maimonides, Abraham S. Halkin; Jewish Publication Society of America, 1985
Subjects: Islam--Controversial Literature--Early Works To 1800, Jews--Persecutions--Yemen--Early Works To 1800, Judaism--Apologetic Works--Early Works To 1800, Judaism--Works To 1900, Maimonides, Moses--1135-1204--Correspondence, Martyrdom--Judaism--Early Works To 1800, Resurrection (Jewish Theology)--Early Works To 1800
...in Northwest Africa. This sect, the Almohads Al-Muwalidun : those who assert the...followed. 2. The reference is to the Almohads al-Muwalidun and their destructive...the victims of the persecution" . The Almohads 1130-1223 early in their history instituted...
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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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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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Algerian Graveyard stories./Ce Que Racontent Les Cimetieres Algeriens
Journal article by Judith Scheele; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 12, 2006
Subjects: Anthropology--Research, Cemeteries--Research, Death--Research, Ethnology--Research
...now northern Mauritania and swept across Northern Africa and Muslim Spain until it was defeated in 1160 by the al-Muwahhidun (Almohads). Despite this defeat, the Murabituns descendants--or those who claimed to be their descendants--continued to travel through...
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New Evidence on the Early Life of Ibn Al-Arabi
Journal article by Gerald Elmore; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 117, 1997
Subjects: Autobiographies--Analysis, al-Arabi, Muhyi 'l-Din Ibn--Conduct of life
...other Andalusian towns then under threat from Castile in alliance with the Portuguese. 16 In the campaign which followed the Almohads relief of Cordoba, Yusuf led a large force to Santarem, which was well defended by the Portuguese. After a disastrous siege...
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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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The Clash of Civilizations? Islamic Totalitarianism Constitutes an Ideological Threat, as Marxism-Leninism Did during the Cold War
Magazine article by Douglas Streusand; World and I, Vol. 18, July 2003
Subjects: Al-Qaeda, Islam and politics--International aspects, Islam--History, Islam--International aspects, Islamic fundamentalism--Political aspects, Islamic history, Khomeini, Ruhollah, Ayatollah, Muhammad, Sayyid Qutb
...the West as the Assassins, were one. In some cases, empires were conquered by activists, most notably the Almoravids and Almohads in Spain and North Africa in the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries and the Safavis in Iran in the sixteenth century...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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