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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. 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.

  5. Battle of Sagrajas - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Sagrajas (23 October 1086), also called Zalaca or Zallaqah (Arabic: معركة الزلاقة, romanized: Maʿrakat az-Zallāqah), was a conflict fought in 1086 between the Almoravid army, led by their king, Yusuf ibn Tashfin, and the forces of King Alfonso VI of Castile. [6]

  6. Siege of Aledo - Wikipedia

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    Emir Ibn Tašufin returned to the Iberian Peninsula in 1089, using Gibraltar as a landing point. [3] At Algeciras, his troops were joined by those of Sevillian al-Mu'tamid, and together they advanced to Málaga, where the taifa Tamim ibn Buluggin joined them with his hosts.

  7. Berbers - Wikipedia

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    Forced to resolve a Sanhaja civil war, he left control of the Moroccan conquests to his brother, Yusuf ibn Tashfin. Yusuf continued to conquer territory; and following Abu Bakr's death in 1087, he became the Almoravid leader. [134]: 100–101 After their loss of Cordoba, the Hammudids had occupied Algeciras and Ceuta.

  8. Zaynab an-Nafzawiyyah - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. 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]