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  2. Yusuf ibn Tashfin - Wikipedia

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    Yusuf ibn Tashfin was a Berber of the Banu Turgut, a branch of the Lamtuna, a tribe belonging to the Sanhaja confederacy. [12] The Sanhaja were linked by medieval Muslim genealogists with the Himyarite Kingdom through semi-mythical and mythical pre-Islamic kings and for some reason, some of the contemporary sources (e.g., ibn Arabi) add the nisba al-Himyari to Yusuf's name to indicate this ...

  3. Siege of Toledo (1090) - Wikipedia

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    Yusuf ibn Tashfin disembarked on June 10, 1090 and went directly to Toledo, as the first movement for the conquest of all Muslim territories.The Taifas, aware of the intentions of the Almoravid, did not support him in this campaign [5] and negotiations had already begun with Alfonso VI of Castile and Leon.

  4. Battle of Sagrajas - Wikipedia

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    After Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad agreed to surrender the island of Al-Jazira Al-Khadra (the Green Island) to the Almoravids, Yusuf ibn Tashfin ordered the mobilization of five hundred knights to serve as an advance contingent for the main army's crossing into Al-Andalus. These knights gathered on the island, establishing a camp in the Dar Al-Sina'a ...

  5. Almoravid dynasty - Wikipedia

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    It is possible that Yusuf ibn Tashfin had understood this problem and had intended to leave Zaragoza as a buffer state between the Almoravids and the Christians, as suggested by an apocryphal story in the Hulul al-Mawshiya, a 14th-century chronicle, which reports that Ibn Tashfin, while on his deathbed, advised his son to follow this policy. [154]

  6. Siege of Valencia (1092–1094) - Wikipedia

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    Yusuf ibn Tashfin, the leader of the Almoravids, ordered its recapture [5] and gave the command of a new expedition to capture it to his nephew Abu 'Abdullah Muhammad, because Muhammad ibn Aisa did not have a permanent army and he had to mobilize the troops in Ceuta, send them across the Strait of Gibraltar and reinforce the garrisons of Andalusia before marching towards Valencia.

  7. Zaynab an-Nafzawiyyah - Wikipedia

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    Yusuf ibn Tashfin, was left as Abu-Bakr Ibn-Umar's deputy in the Almoravid northern territories. Abu Bakr departed for the Sahara in January 1071, and after the Iddah legal period of 3 months' separation had ended, Zaynab duly married Yusuf in May of that year. [8]

  8. History of Fez - Wikipedia

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    The last Maghrawa ruler of Fez, Mu'ansir Ibn Ziri, was a persistent obstacle. [23]: 43–49 Unable to take Fez quickly, Ibn Tashfin conquered some of the surrounding forts and settlements first before refocusing on besieging the city. Mu'ansir fled Fez before the Almoravids were able to capture it in the later months of 1063.

  9. Massa River (Morocco) - Wikipedia

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    Yusuf Ibn Tashfin Dam. Constructed in 1972, the Yusuf Ibn Tashfin dam is the main dam on the Massa river. See also. Northern bald ibis; Souss-Massa National Park;