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The Almoravid minbar, commissioned by Ali ibn Yusuf in 1137 and built in Cordoba. Internal view of the Almoravid Qubba, inscribed with Ali's name. [12]He commissioned a minbar now known as the Minbar of the Kutubiyya Mosque from a workshop in Córdoba to furnish his grand mosque, the original Ben Youssef Mosque (destroyed under the Almohads), in the imperial capital, Marrakesh. [13]
The Almoravid governor was besieged in his palace and the rebellion became so serious that Ali ibn Yusuf crossed over into al-Andalus to deal with it himself. His army besieged Cordoba but, eventually, a peace was negotiated between the Almoravid governor and the population. [157] [156] This was the last time Ali ibn Yusuf visited al-Andalus. [145]
Ali ibn Yusuf ibn Umar (Arabic: علي بن يوسف بن عمر) was the sixth emir of Crete, reigning from c. 915–925.. The surviving records on the internal history and rulers of the Emirate of Crete are very fragmentary.
An Almoravid dinar minted under Ali ibn Yusuf in Seville featuring Almoravid Kufic script. The greatest extent of Almoravid dinar production started around 1120 and lasted until around 1130; it was the peak of Almoravid prosperity when most of Ali's constructions took place. [1]
Yusuf ibn Tashfin, the Almoravid emir (d. 1161), gave one of his daughters in marriage to Ali ibn Yusuf, the head of Ghaniya clan. He had two sons with her: Yahya and Muhammad. [8] These two became important governors and commanders during the 1120s, under the reign of Ali ibn Yusuf, the son of Yusuf ibn Tashfin who succeeded him as emir (r.
Abu Nasr Sa'd ibn Ali ibn Yusuf (Arabic: أبو نصر سعد بن علي بن يوسف, romanized: ʾAbū Naṣr Saʿd ibn ʿAlī ibn Yūsuf), known by the regnal name al-Musta'in bi-llah (Arabic: المستعين بالله, romanized: al-Mustaʿīn bi-ʾllāh, lit.
It was built in either 1117 or, more likely, in 1125, by the Almoravid amir Ali ibn Yusuf. [27] [28]: 43 Located just south of the Ben youssef Mosque today, most scholars believe that it belonged to the Almoravid mosque built by Ali Ibn Yusuf and that it was a pavilion used for ritual ablutions before prayer.
As Yusuf weakened, factions sprung up around his three sons; though Yusuf abdicated in 1832 in favor of his son Ali II, civil war soon resulted. Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II sent in troops ostensibly to restore order, but instead deposed and exiled Ali II, marking the end of both the Karamanli dynasty and an independent Tripolitania. [ 6 ]