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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 ...
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.
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.
The Battle of Sagrajas (known to Muslims as the Battle of Al-Zallaqah) marked a victory for the Muslim forces under Yusuf ibn Tashfin and Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad against the army of Alfonso VI of Castile. As the battle intensified, Alfonso’s troops found themselves caught between the combined forces of Al-Mu'tamid and Yusuf ibn Tashfin. [77]
After this setback, Yusuf ibn Tašufin briefly continued his peninsular campaign, seizing Talavera de la Reina and Madrid, but after being rejected in Guadalajara he retreated to Cordoba, to end up returning to his North African possessions.
Yusuf was understandably reluctant to yield, but did not know how to keep his position without triggering an internecine war with Abu Bakr. It is said that Zaynab, knowing of Abu Bakr's fondness for the desert life and his own reluctance to cause unwarranted bloodshed, advised Yusuf to confront Abu Bakr in a firm but courteous manner, and ...
The Almoravid dinar (Arabic: الدينار المرابطي) was a gold dinar coin minted under the Almoravid dynasty in the Maghreb and Iberia (). [1] [2] The mints that produced them were supplied by the West African gold mines south of the Sahara desert.
It is known, however, that Yusuf Ibn Tashfin forbade Jews living in the capital city Marrakesh. It was allowed for them to trade there, but if a Jew was caught in the city during night hours it was punishable by death. [15] Under the Almoravids, some Jews prospered (although far more so under Ali III, than under his father Yusuf ibn Tashfin).