The Almoravid and Almohad empires
This is the first book in English to provide a comprehensive account of the rise and fall of the Almoravids and the Almohads, the two most important Berber dynasties of the medieval Islamic west, an area that encompassed southern Spain and Portugal, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. The Sanhaja Almoravi...
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh University Press
2016
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The Almoravids: striving in the path of God
- The Almohads: revelation, revolution and empire
- Society in the Almoravid and Almohad eras, 1050-1250
- Economy and trade within and beyond imperial frontiers, 1050-1250
- Malikism, Mahdism and mysticism: religion and learning, 1050-1250
- 'The most wondrous artifice': the art and architecture of the Berber empires
- Conclusion