... political systems. It also talks about how Ibn Mardanīsh operated in the polyglot setting of the western Mediterranean and drew on traditions near and far to legitimate his authority. The chapter traces how ideas about Ibn Mardanīsh have transformed over time, as his territory was lost first to the Almohads...

.... It also discusses several messianic movements appearing in North Africa and al-Andalus that sought to recenter religious and political power in the hands of a single figure. The chapter points out the debate over the meaning of the caliphate that forms the nucleus of the conflict between the Almohads...

...This chapter focuses on the transformation of the Almohad caliphate by its conquest and incorporation of Ibn Mardanīsh's kingdom. Although Almohad chronicles present Ibn Mardanīsh's death and defeat as a victory, close attention to the material landscape the Almohads inherited and the people...

...In eastern al-Andalus, the end of Almohad authority initiated a period of fierce clashes among Muslim and Christian rivals. Many of these conflicts were presented as holy war, and the eventual loss of the territory to the Christians means narratives often emphasise interreligious warfare...

...This chapter examines the responses of three important medieval Maghrib? dynasties to the dilemmas posed by nomadic populations dwelling in their midst. These dynasties include the Almoravids in al-Andalus in the twelfth century, the Almohads in the Maghrib in the thirteenth century, and the ?af...

...This chapter discusses how the cuboid tower added in the tenth century to the neo-Umayyad mosque in Córdoba became the prototype for a type of tower that continues to be built to the present day. The cuboid mosque tower favoured by the Almohads became the type favoured throughout the Maghrib...

..., take power, and set the stage for a new era. He wrote a great history of the Berbers to illustrate his point, perhaps to give hope that a new unifying dynasty would emerge in the midst of the disintegration of North Africa and the misfortunes of the Almohad successor dynasties. Despite a consequent...

...The Almohads’ rule over the Islamic West—twelfth–thirteenth centuries, from western Lybia to the Iberian Peninsula—involved the imposition of their founder’s profession of faith stressing God’s unity (tawḥīd) on the population at large, including not only Jews and Christians who...

...This chapter describes how Islamic architecture developed more sober and abstract tendencies during the religious reforms of 1100-1250 CE as two successive Berber dynasties, first the Almoravids, then the Almohads, consolidated power and united Islamic rule in the western Mediterranean. During...

...This book brings together a diverse group of scholars whose work concerns the reign of Alfonso VIII (1158–1215). This was a critical period in the history of the Iberian Peninsula, when the conflict between the Christian north and the Moroccan empire of the Almohads was at its most intense, while...

...This chapter details the founding of the city of Marrakech, which was regarded as a purely original Islamic city —a citadel to the unifying reforms of the Almoravid and Almohad Berber empires. Over time, despite some efforts to prevent religious diversity under both Islamic empires, the city almost...

... in the Far Maghrib owing to the joint influence of Ifrīqī and Andalusī theologians. Special emphasis is put in the Almoravids’ contribution to this latter process and the challenges posed by Ibn Tūmart—the leader of the Almohad movement—to the local Mālikī-Ashʿarī establishment. Abū ʿAlī al Ghassānī...

... to Norman Africa came courtesy of the Almohads from the Maghreb, who conquered Mahdia and ended Norman rule in Ifriqiya in 554H (1159–60). The Almohads instituted policies of forced deportation for many Ifriqiyan tribal leaders, which fundamentally realigned the regional political landscape. In Sicily...

... explicitly identified with the Peripatetic tradition, and strove to strengthen the authority of Aristotle and his commentators. This stricter version of Aristotelianism, which makes its debut with Ibn Bājja under the Almoravids, was further crystalized under the Almohads by philosophers such as Averroes...

... and to diminish the influence of noble factions. However, threats came from other sources. By the middle of the twelfth century, the Almoravids fell to the rising Almohad power. By the second half of the twelfth century, the Almohads built an expansive and successful Western Mediterranean empire. In many respects...

...The period begins with the emergence of another deeply religious confederation, the Almohads in Morocco and their ascendancy over the whole of North Africa eastward to Tripolitania. But in the 1230’s the unity had begun to fragment once more into three tribal states, the Marinids, Zayyanids...

... Christian, the king was also expected to provide moral and financial support to the Church and its institutions. By doing so, the community was assured of God's continuing favor and a life of peace and prosperity. That tranquility was threatened, however, by the Almohad menace that loomed ever larger. Thus...

...This chapter tells of Granada under two North African dynasties – the Almoravids and the Almohads. The veiled Almoravid warriors, led by Yusuf ibn Tashfin, conquered Granada at the end of the eleventh century and imposed a far more austere interpretation of Islam on the city than had existed during...

..., it connects the employment of the jenets to the more ancient service of Christian soldiers for the Muslim rulers of Spain and North Africa, with a particular emphasis on the history of the Almohads. Together, Christian and Muslim rulers and soldiers developed norms and traditions for the use...

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