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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, 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.
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.
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]
Yousuf bin Tashfin [1] Yousuf Son of Tashfin: یوسف بن تاشفین: Novel: Al-Andalus, First Taifas period, Almoravid Empire, Spanish Reconquista: 7 [8] Akhari Chattan [2] [1] The Last Rock: آخری چٹان: Novel
Soon however, Rodrigo and his friends escape imprisonment and Garces opens the castle gates. Rodrigo's forces, led by Al-Mu'tamin, siege the castle but are soon overrun by Yusuf's gathered troops. Meanwhile, Rodrigo confronts Yusuf, and the two fight. Yusuf gains the upper hand and disarms Rodrigo, but at the same time, Ordoñez and Jimena escape.
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]
She was married to Yusuf ibn Tashfin (r. 1061-1107) and reportedly his de facto co-ruler. She was one of the wives of Berber kings given the title of malika (queen), which was not a given thing for the wives of Muslim monarchs, and called al-qa'ima bi mulkihi ('literally: the one in charge of her husband's mulk '), referring to her ...