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The Almohad influence on architecture is preserved in the area of the city called the Albaicín with its fine examples of Moorish and Morisco construction.
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In 1228, with the departure of the Almohad prince, Idris, who left Iberia to take the Almohad leadership, the ambitious Ibn al-Ahmar established the longest lasting Muslim dynasty on the Iberian peninsula-the Nasrids.
As a substitute for this, he commented on Plato's The Republic, arguing that the ideal state there described was the same as the original constitution of the Arab Caliphate, as well as the Almohad state of Ibn Tumart.
At the time of its establishment as a town by Alfonso XI, Palos was part of the Almohad kingdom of Niebla, and was a small nucleus whose population subsisted on fishing and took advantage of the area ’ s geographic protection against pirates and storms.
These disparate works were later collected and compiled in 1183-84, on the order of the Almohad caliph Yusuf ibn Abd al-Ma ' mun ( later translated in French in 1903, under the title Livre d ' Ibn Toumert.
Passing through the province of Seville, the main Almohad army reached Córdoba on June 30, reinforced by the few troops raised by the local governors and by a Christian cavalry contingent under Pedro Fernández de Castro, who held a personal feud against the Castilian king.
When on July 16 the Almohad host came in view.
Yaqub al-Mansur did not accept battle on this day, preferring to give rest to his forces ; but early next day, Wednesday, July 18, the Almohad army formed for battle around a small hill called La Cabeza, two bow-shots from Alarcos.
When the Almohad caliph Muhammad an-Nasir attempted to build on it 16 years later with a new Iberian offensive, he was crushingly defeated in the more decisive Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa.
For example, in a raid on Lisbon in 1189 the Almohad caliph Yaqub al-Mansur took 3, 000 female and child captives, and his governor of Córdoba took 3, 000 Christian slaves in a subsequent attack upon Silves in 1191.
By uniting Morocco, Tlemcen and Ifriqiya, the Marinid ruler Abu al-Hassan effectively accomplished the conquest of dominions as great as the Almohad empire of the Maghreb, and the comparison was not lost on contemporaries.
Almohad and is
* The Almohad dynasty of Caliphs ( not universally accepted ) that once ruled most of North Africa and Al-Andalus ( Moorish Spain ) is extinguished when Idris II is murdered in the dynasty's last remaining possession, Marrakesh.
* Tunis is reconquered from the Normans by the Almohad caliphs.
The Almohad army continues its campaign by the siege of Santarém, where the caliph, Abu Yaqub Yusuf is killed.
** The Almohad dynasty of caliphs ( not universally accepted ), that once ruled most of North Africa and Al-Andalus ( Moorish Spain ), is extinguished when Idris II is murdered in the dynasty's last remaining possession, Marrakesh.
He is most remembered for his part in the Reconquista and the downfall of the Almohad Caliphate.
The Castle of Salir () is an Almohad fortress, located in the civil parish of the same name ( Salir ), 16 kilometres from the municipality seat of Loulé in the Porutguese Algarve.
* 1269: Idris II, Almohad Caliph is overthrown by the Marinids, End of the Almohad.
It is based upon Almohad style and contains long rows of octagonal columns with curiously carved capitals, from which spring Moorish arches supporting the roof.
That the Almohad movement did not immediately collapse by the combined blows of the crushing defeat and large losses at the walls of Marrakesh, and the deaths of not only their spiritual leader, but also their chief military commanders, is testament to the careful organization that Ibn Tumart had built up at Tinmel.
It is built in a traditional Almohad style and the tower is adorned with four copper globes.
* 1163-The Almohad Caliph Abd al-Mu ' min al-Kumi dies and is suceded by Abu Ya ' qub Yusuf I.
** Yusuf I, Almohad Caliph, dies and is succeeded by Abu Yusuf Ya ' qub al-Mansur.
* 1199-The Almohad Caliph Abu Yusuf Ya ' qub al-Mansur dies and is succeeded by Muhammad an-Nasir.
Their origin is south-east of the High-Atlas and they seemingly settled in the Chaouia region as a result of the Almohad advance to the north.
* 1163-The Almohad Caliph Abd al-Mu ' min al-Kumi dies and is succeeded by Abu Ya ' qub Yusuf I.
** Yusuf I, Almohad Caliph, dies and is succeeded by Abu Yusuf Ya ' qub al-Mansur.
* 1199-The Almohad Caliph Abu Yusuf Ya ' qub al-Mansur dies and is succeeded by Muhammad an-Nasir.
The Torre del Oro ( Tower of Gold ) is a dodecagonal military watchtower built during the time of the Almohad dynasty.
The Torre del Oro ( English: " Gold Tower ") is a dodecagonal military watchtower in Seville, southern Spain, built by the Almohad dynasty in order to control access to Seville via the Guadalquivir river.
Almohad and preserved
The cave itself was preserved as a shrine for many years, where apparently Almohad partisans, regardless of their origin or background, would ceremonially reject their past affiliations and be " adopted " into Ibn Tumart's Hargha tribe ).
Almohad and area
Alfonso crossed the mountain range that defended the Almohad camp, sneaking through the Despeñaperros Pass, being led by a local shepherd that knew the area.
Almohad and city
* The efforts of the Almohad caliph, Abu Yaqub Yusuf, to repopulate the western Andalusian city of Beja begin.
* The Almohad caliph, Yaqub al-Mansur, reconquers the city of Gabes Ifriqiya from the Almoravid pretender, Ali b. Ghaniya.
* Estimation: Hangzhou, capital of Southern Song China, becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Fes in the Almohad Empire.
* Estimation: Fes in the Almohad Empire becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire.
In 1160 the city comes under Almohad rule.
Considered at first as foreigners, the Jews were not permitted to settle in the interior of the last-named city, but had to live in a building called later, however, a wealthy and humane Muslim, Sidi Mahrez, who in 1159 had rendered great services to the Almohad king, Abd al-Mu ' min, obtained for them the right to settle in a special quarter of the city proper.
Almohad and called
Having failed to gather an expedition against Palestine, Pope Innocent III resolved in 1207 to organize a new crusade ; beginning in 1209, he called for crusades against the Albigenses, against the Almohad dynasty of Spain ( 1213 ), and, also around that time, against the pagans of Prussia.
The Sous Almohad governor called upon them for help against a rebellion in the Sous and they resettled to in and around that region.
This last one was originated from Abu Nas ; his son was Ibn Abu Nas ; this has a son called Mandil I, Almohad governor of Chelif c. 1160.
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The Almohad caliph, Abu Yaqub Yusuf, manages to broke an alliance with the king of León Ferdinand II against Afonso.
* Abu Ishaq, uncle of the Hafsid khalif, sides with the Almohad rebels of Béjaïa and takes Tunis.
In 1184, after a series of failed attempts, the Almohad caliph Abu Yaqub Yusuf invaded Portugal with an army recruited in Northern Africa and, in May, besieged Afonso I in Santarém ; the Portuguese were helped by the arrival of the armies sent by the archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, in June, and by Ferdinand II in July.
Ibn Rushd began his career with the help of Ibn Tufail (" Aben Tofail " to the West ), the author of Hayy ibn Yaqdhan and philosophic vizier of Almohad king Abu Yaqub Yusuf who was an amateur of philosophy and science.
" Furthermore, by dividing his realm between his sons, he ensured that Christendom would not present the new Almohad threat with a united front.
The Almoravid and Almohad dynasties are characterized by a tendency toward austerity, for example in mosques with bare walls.
In 1145, it became part of the emirate of Valencia and was occupied, along with the rest of the emirate, by the Almohads in 1172, then passing as Almohad rule in Iberia collapsed to the emirate of Murcia in 1229.
Ibn Tumart had set up the Almohad commune as a minutely-detailed pyramidical hierarchy with fourteen grades.
The Almohad military had been organized as arranged " units " named by tribe, with sub-units and internal hierarchies carefully and exactly spelled out.
In 1189 the Almohad caliph Yaqub al-Mansur returned from Marrakech, to fight the Portuguese who, with the help of a Christian alliance, had taken over Silves.
The Arab right under Yarmun had been enveloping the Castilian flank and rear ; at this point the best of the Almohad forces attacked, with the sultan himself clearly visible in the front ranks ; and finally the knights are almost completely surrounded.
Most significantly, however, these raids did not lead to any territorial gains for the caliph, although Almohad diplomacy did obtain an alliance with King Alfonso IX of León ( who had been enraged when the Castilian king had not waited for him before the battle of Alarcos ) and the neutrality of Navarre.
Abu Yusuf Ya ' qub al-Mansur, the third Almohad prince, suspecting the sincerity of the supposedly converted Jews, compelled them to wear distinguishing garments, with a very noticeable yellow cloth for a head-covering ; from that time forward the clothing of the Jews formed an important subject in the legal regulations concerning them.
The Marinid empire disintegrated with stunning rapidity, Abu al-Hassan's recent dream of recreating the Almohad empire became a dead letter.
In the late 12th century, Almohad ruler Abu Yusuf ordered the Jews of the Maghreb to wear dark blue garments with long sleeves and saddle-like caps.
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