Saladin, the Almohads and the Banū Ghāniya: The Contest for North Africa (12th and 13th centuries)In Saladin, the Almohads and the Banū Ghāniya, Amar Baadj gives us the first comprehensive, modern study of a fascinating but little-known episode in the history of the medieval Mediterranean. This is the story of the long struggle between the Almohad caliphs of the Maghrib, the Banū Ghāniya of Majorca, and the Ayyubids for dominance of North Africa. The author makes use of important textual sources that have been ignored as well as new archaeological evidence to challenge some of the basic assumptions about the events in question. He also successfully places these events in their wider temporal and geographical context for the first time. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 | 6 |
Chapter 2 | 30 |
Chapter 3 | 48 |
Chapter 4 | 86 |
Chapter 5 | 111 |
Chapter 6 | 142 |
Chapter 7 | 154 |
Chapter 8 | 174 |
Appendix A | 193 |
Tables | 211 |
Maps | 212 |
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Abbasid Abd al-Mu'min Abdallāh Abū Abū Muḥammad Abū Shāma Abū Zayd Aḥmad Akhbār al-Andalus al-Dawla al-Ḥasan al-Islāmī al-Maghrib al-Aqṣā al-Maghrib al-Awsat al-Mahdīya al-Manṣūr Al-Maqrīzī Al-Marrākushī al-Nāṣir Al-Tijānī Algiers Alī Almohad caliph Almohad Empire Almoravid amir Arab Arab tribes army Awjila Aydhāb Ayyubid Balearic Islands Banī Banu Banū Ghāniya battle Bayān Beirut Berber Bijāya Brill Cairo captured Central Maghrib conquest Dār defeat dinars dynasty east eastern Egypt Ghuzz gold governor Hafsids Ḥammād Hammadid Ibar Ibid Ibn al-Athīr Ibn Idhārī Ibn Khaldūn Ibn Qarātikīn Ibn Taqī Ibn Tūmart Ifriqiya inhabitants Islamic Jabal Nafūsa Jarīd Kāmil Kitāb Leiden Libya Maghrib Majorca Marrakech medieval Miḍmār Mūsā Muslim North Africa Nubia Nūr port Qābis Qafṣa Qarāqūsh Qayrawān region Riḥla Riyāḥ route ruler Sahara Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn siege Sijilmāsa Slane Sulaym Taqi Taqī al-Dīn Tārīkh Tilimsān trade Trans-Saharan Trans-Saharan trade Tripoli Tripolitania Tunis Tunisia twelfth century Wādī Wargla western Yaḥyā Zanāta Zirids