ALMORAVIDS

ălmôrˈəvĭdz, Berber Muslim dynasty that ruled Morocco and Muslim Spain in the 11th and 12th cent. The Almoravids may have originated in what is now Mauritania. The real founder was Abd Allah ibn Yasin, who by military force converted a number of Saharan tribes to his own reformed religion and then advanced on Morocco. After his death (c.1059), Yusuf ibn Tashfin and his brother Abu Bakr came to power. Marrakech was founded in 1062 and was the center of a powerful empire. Called by the Moors in Spain to help stem Christian reconquest, Yusuf entered Andalusia and defeated (1086) Alfonso VI of Castile. He later subdued the local Muslim rulers and governed Muslim Spain and N Morocco (Abu Bakr ruling over S Morocco). The dynasty also pushed south, destroying the ancient state of Ghana. The Almoravids were rough and puritanical, contemptuous of the luxurious Muslim courts in Spain. Their rule was never entirely stable and in the 12th cent. was attacked by the Almohads, who finally (by 1174) won both Morocco and Muslim Spain.

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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
...8. Alfonso VI, the Taifas, and the Almoravids 193 9. Alfonso VII and...such as the Arabs and Berbers in the eighth century, the Almoravids and Almohads in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Marinids...
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Essays on Islamic Piety and Mysticism
Book by Fritz Meier, John O'Kane; Brill, 1999
Subjects: Islam--History, Sufism--History
...Predestination: A Bit of Ibn Taymiyya 309 Almoravids and Marabouts 335 Tahir al-Safadis...Sufism). In his long essay on the Almoravids, he brings to bear his specialist knowledge...and subtle workings of Gods will. Almoravids and Marabouts: This is the largest and...
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A History of Islamic Spain
Book by W. Montgomery Watt; Edinburgh University Press, 1965
Subjects: Spain--History--711-1516
... 7 The Berber Empires: The Almoravids 1. The foundations...state 95 2. The Almoravids in Spain 97 Chapter 8 The Berber Empires...
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The Golden Trade of the Moors
Book by E. W. Bovill; Oxford University Press, 1958
Subjects: Sudan (Region)--History
...55 6 THE ALMORAVIDS 66...was the conquest of Morocco by the Almoravids, most of whom were desert-born. The...instincts or mere love of conquest. The Almoravids were a notable exception. The controlling...
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African Glory: The Story of Vanished Negro Civilizations
Book by J. C. Degraft-Johnson; Praeger, 1954
Subjects: Africa--History, Black Race
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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
...century, alien armies of the North African Berber empires of the Almoravids and Almohads held sway.(18) The tenth-century eastern visitor...Caliphate of Cordoba and the North African empires of the Almoravids and Almohads, "the local people could not mount a successful...
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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
...711, a succession of 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...
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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
...Hadibi 1999). (12) Historically, these saints, who are also referred to as marabouts, seem to be linked to the al-Murabitun (Almoravids) movement of Islamic reform, which originated in the eleventh century in what is now northern Mauritania and swept across...
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Itineraires d'Orient: Hommages a Claude Cahen
Journal article by Carl F. Petry; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 118, 1998
Subjects: Books--Reviews
...of itinerant jurists or scholars shed some light on professional offices in this murky period. Dierk Langes article on the Almoravids and the Islamization of West African states traces the advance of Berber forces into Ghana, Gawgaw (Gao), and Kanem during...
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African Voices
Journal article by Robert T. Soppelsa; African Arts, Vol. 34, 2001
Subjects: Africa--Social aspects, Culture--Exhibitions, Exhibitions--Evaluation, Museums--Evaluation
...the open spaces of the hall. Some of the heroic episodes may be unknown to some visitors, such as the rule of Spain by the Almoravids, African Muslims, during the eleventh and twelfth centuries and the Ethiopian king Meneliks victory over the Italian army...
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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
...Ismailis, known in 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...
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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
...history; but the 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...


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Holiday Hotspots: Marraknificent! MOROCCO'S EXOTIC RED CITY OFFERS LUXURY.. AND BARGAINS GALORE
Newspaper article; The People (London, England), May 11, 2008
...Back in Marrakech, there are some of the finest monuments from its history stretching back to the citys foundation by the Almoravids in 1070. There are also fabulous palaces. Be sure not to miss the Bahia Palace, a succession of patios and riads with amazing...


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encyclopedia articles on: Almoravids  - 17 results

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Almoravids
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ALMORAVIDS almor vidz, Berber Muslim dynasty that ruled Morocco and Muslim Spain in the 11th and 12th cent. The Almoravids may have originated in what is now Mauritania . The...south, destroying the ancient state of Ghana . The Almoravids were rough and puritanical, contemptuous of the luxurious...
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Abd Allah Ibn Yasin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ABD ALLAH IBN YASIN see Almoravids . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Marabouts
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MARABOUTS mar boots Arab.,=devotee hermit, members of a Muslim religious and military community, precursors of the Almoravids . They spread from NW Africa into Spain in the 11th and 12th cent. The Marabouts later became known as holy men and were greatly...
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Yusuf Ibn Tashfin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
YUSUF IBN TASHFIN yoosoof i b n tashfen , d. 1106, ruler in the dynasty of the Almoravids (c.1059 1106). A Muslim, he led the Berbers in N Africa, continued the conquest of Morocco, took Algeria, and founded (1062) Marrakech...
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Almohads
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...tribes of the Atlas Mts. area to purify Islam and oust the Almoravids . His successors, Abd al-Mumin , Yusuf II, and Yakub I...Spain, and by 1174 the Almohads had completely displaced the Almoravids. With time the Almohads lost some of their fierce purifying...
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