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Le mouvement almohade (de l’arabe al mwuaḥḥidūn, confesseurs de l’Un) a exprime, avec le mouvement almoravide qu’il prolonge, l’apparition dans l’Histoire d’un ensemble berbere musulman coherent. Cet ensemble, si on prend en compte ces deux mouvements, a dure plus de deux siecles pendant lesquels des habitudes culturelles, sociales et politiques se ...
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Le mahdi Ibn Tûmart et al-Andalus : l'élaboration de la légitimité almohade
Mahdism is one of the means offered by Islamic tradition to legitimize a ruler. It is of special relevance when the aim is to renovate society and to eliminate old politico-religious elites and create new ones.
Maribel Fierro
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Fortified Construction Techniques in al-Ṭagr al-Awsaṯ, 8th–13th Centuries
Spanish Islamic military architecture shows an attempt at the systematization of works, techniques, and defensive elements, commencing in the era of the Umayyad Emirate and Caliphate up to the North African Empires (Almoravids and Almohads). This article
Ignacio Javier Gil Crespo +2 more
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Abraham ibn Daud (d. 1180) was one of the leading Jewish scholars of Spain. The Spanish lands witnessed wars among Almoravids, Almohads, and Christian kingdoms during his lifetime.
Yasin Meral
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This paper addresses the impact of the Almohad caliphs’ claim to religious authority, their religious policy, and specifically their propagation of the creeds attributed to the movement’s founder Ibn Tūmart.
Jan Thiele
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Analysis of the Magnetic Anomalies of Buried Archaeological Ovens of Aïn Kerouach (Morocco)
Aïn Kerouach is one of the most important archaeological sites in the northern part of Morocco. The main buried archaeological ruins in this area were surveyed in 1977 using magnetic prospecting. This survey highlights the mean anomalies that are related to potteries ovens built to the Marinid dynasty that governed Morocco from the 13th to the 15th ...
Abderrahim Ayad +2 more
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Oriental patterns in Andalusi textile ornamentation. 13th-15th centuries
Andalusi textiles developed a decorative repertoire of oriental origin. In the second half of twelfth century there was a change in textile decoration. This change has been associated with the religiosity of the Almohads, the new dynasty.
Laura Rodríguez Peinado
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The contributions to this fourth issue of al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā (UW) in its new (online, open-access, peerreviewed) format includes, alongside a set of article-length studies, eight book reviews, including a contribution by Peter Brown (Princeton University);
Antoine Borrut, Matthew S. Gordon
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Epigrafía funeraria en al-Andalus (siglos IX-XII)
The process of Arabisation and Islamisation in funeral epigraphs first began to emerge in the period of the Emirates. The use of epitaphs became generalised with the advent of the Umayyad caliphate and the culmination of what is known as «social ...
Mª Antonia Martínez Núñez
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The eastern regions of Al-Andalus before the conquest by Catalonia-Aragon: An overview [PDF]
This article sets forth a highly schematic synthesis of current knowledge on the history of the eastern regions of Al-Andalus, particularly Tortosa, Valencia and the Balearic Islands, before they were conquered by the Crown of Aragon between the ...
Josep Torró
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