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Encyclopedia > Yusuf ibn Tashfin

Yusuf ibn Tashfin or Tashafin (reigned c. 1061 - 1106) (Arabic: يوسف بن تاشفين or يوسف بن تشفين) was the Berber Almoravid ruler in North Africa and Al-Andalus (Moorish Iberia). Events September 28 - Henry I of England defeats his older brother Robert Curthose, duke of Normandy, at the Battle of Tinchebrai, and imprisons him in Cardiff Castle; Edgar Atheling and William Clito are also taken prisoner. ... Arabic ( or just ) is the largest living member of the Semitic language family in terms of speakers. ... The Berbers (also called Amazigh, free men, pl. ... Map showing the extent of the Almoravid empire The Almoravids (In Arabic المرابطون al-Murabitun, sing. ...  Northern Africa (UN subregion)  geographic, including above North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of the African continent, separated by the Sahara from Sub-Saharan Africa. ... Al-Andalus is the Arabic name given the Iberian Peninsula by its Muslim conquerors; it refers to both the Caliphate proper and the general period of Muslim rule (711–1492). ... The Moors are the Muslim African and Arab inhabitants of the western Mediterranean and western Sahara, including the Maghreb (the coastal and mountain lands of present day Morocco and Algeria, and Tunisia although Tunisia often is separately called Ifriqiya after the former Roman province of Africa); al-Andalus (the former... The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe, and includes modern day Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar. ...


He took the title of amir al-muslimin (commander of the Muslims). He was either a cousin or nephew of Abu Bakr ibn Umar, the founder of the Almoravid dynasty, and married Zaynab an-Nafzawiyyat, a former wife of Abu Bakr. He united all of the Muslim dominions in the Iberian Peninsula (modern Portugal and Spain) to the Kingdom of Morocco (circa 1090), after being called to the Al-Andalus by the Emir of Seville. Abu-Bakr Ibn-Umar (died in 1087) (Arabic: أبو بكر بن عمر) was a Almoravid ruler. ... Zaynab an-Nafzāwiyyat (Arabic: ) (fl. ... There is also a collection of Hadith called Sahih Muslim A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Persian: Mosalman or Mosalmon Urdu: مسلمان, Turkish: Müslüman, Albanian: Mysliman, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of the religion of Islam. ... Events Granada captured by Yusuf Ibn Tashfin, King of the Almoravides Beginnings of troubadours in Provence Bejaia becomes the capital of the Algeria Births William of Malmsbury Saint Bernard of Clairvaux Saint Famianus Eliezer ben Nathan of Mainz Deaths Saint Malcoldia of Asti Saint Adalbero Categories: 1090 ... Entrance to the emirs palace in Bukhara. ... NO8DO (I was not abandoned) Location Coordinates : ( ) Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name Sevilla (Spanish) Spanish name Sevilla Founded 8th-9th century BC Postal code 41001-41080 Website http://www. ...


Yusuf bin Tashfin is the co-founder of the famous Moroccan city Marrakech (in Arabic Murakush, corrupted to Morocco in English). The site had been chosen and work started by Abu Bakr ibn Umar in 1070 but early in 1071 he had to leave to quell a revolt in the Sahara. The work was completed by Yusuf, who then made it the capital of his Empire, in place of the former capital Aghmat. Until then the Almoravids had been desert nomads, but the new capital marked their settling into a more urban way of life. For the record label, see Marrakesh Records. ... Abu-Bakr Ibn-Umar (died in 1087) (Arabic: أبو بكر بن عمر) was a Almoravid ruler. ... Events Hereward the Wake begins a Saxon revolt in the Fens of eastern England. ... Events Byzantine Empire loses Battle of Manzikert to Turkish army under Alp Arslan. ... Aghmāt was an important medieval Berber town in southern Morocco which is today an archaeological site known as Joumâa Aghmat. It is situated approximately 30 km east of Marrakech on the Ourika road. ...


Bibliography

  • Ibn Idhari, Al-bayan al-mughrib Part III, annotated Spanish translation by A. Huici Miranda, Valencia, 1963.
  • N. Levtzion & J.F.P. Hopkins, Corpus of early Arabic sources for West African history, Cambridge University Press, 1981, ISBN 0521224225 (reprint: Markus Wiener, Princeton, 2000, ISBN 1-55876-241-8). Contains English translations of extracts from medieval works dealing with the Almoravids; the selections cover some (but not all) of the information above.
  • E. A. Freeman, History and Conquests of the Saracens, (Oxford, 1856)
  • Codera, Decadencia y desaparicion de los Almoravides en España (1889)
Preceded by
Abu-Bakr Ibn-Umar		 Almoravid
1061–1106		 Succeeded by
Ali ibn Yusuf

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