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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.
In 1097, Yusuf Ibn Tashfin himself led another army into al-Andalus. Setting out from Cordoba with Muhammad ibn al-Hajj as his field commander, he marched against Alfonso VI, who was in Toledo at the time. The Castilians were routed at the Battle of Consuegra. El Cid was not involved, but his son, Diego, was killed in the battle. [136]
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]
Despite this, the expedition led by Emir Yusuf ibn Tashufin chose to return to the Maghreb upon hearing of his son's death. Aledo gained importance as an isolated Christian outpost in Islamic territory, challenging the surrounding taifas.
Almoravids continued to harass Toledo under the Almoravid prince, Tashfin bin Ali, the son of Ali ibn Yusuf, who governed Al-Andalus from Granada in the years 1128–1138. . The Almoravids took Colmenar de Oreja as their base in the east and Calatrava la Vieja in the sou
His cousin, Yusuf ibn Tashfin, continued to lead the Almoravids in southern Morocco and it was under his leadership that most of the Maghreb and Al-Andalus was conquered. [2] While the Lamtuna claim descent from the Himyarite Kingdom, [3] with one of the chiefs sometimes referred to as Saharawi (one who comes from the Sahara). This name is ...