TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bennison,Amira K.
TI  - Almoravid and Almohad Empires
T2  - The Edinburgh history of the Islamic Empires
SN  - 9780748646807 (paperback)
AV  - DT199 .B39 2016 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Almoravides
KW  - History
KW  - Almohades
KW  - fast
KW  - Africa, North
KW  - 647-1517
KW  - Spain
KW  - 711-1516
KW  - North Africa
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "This is the first book in English to provide a comprehensive account of the rise and fall of the Almoravids and the Almohads, the two most important Berber dynasties of the medieval Islamic west, an area that encompassed southern Spain and Portugal, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. The Sanhaja Almoravids emerged from the Sahara in the 1050s to conquer vast territories and halt the Christian advance in Iberia. They were replaced a century later by their rivals, the Almohads, supported by the Masmuda Berbers of the High Atlas. Although both have often been seen as uncouth, religiously intolerant tribesmen who undermined the high culture of al-Andalus, this book argues that the eleventh to thirteenth centuries were crucial to the Islamisation of the Maghrib, its integration into the Islamic cultural sphere, and its emergence as a key player in the western Mediterranean, and that much of this was due to these oft-neglected Berber empires."--Source inconnue
ER  -