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      The Almohad Revolution
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      Politics and Religion in the Islamic West during the Twelfth—Thirteenth Centuries

      The Almohad Revolution

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      Politics and Religion in the Islamic West during the Twelfth—Thirteenth Centuries
      ByMaribel Fierro
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2012
      eBook Published 31 December 2017
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351219501
      Pages 358
      eBook ISBN 9781351219501
      Subjects Humanities
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      Fierro, M. (2012). The Almohad Revolution: Politics and Religion in the Islamic West during the Twelfth—Thirteenth Centuries (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351219501

      ABSTRACT

      The studies in this collection comprise a series of explorations into the revolutionary character of the Almohad movement in medieval North Africa and Spain and how it was expressed, including through compelling visual and auditory means. Almohad silver coins were minted square instead of round, and they carried no date, as if to indicate that a new era had begun. The new age was symbolized in the texts appearing on the coins, reminding Muslims that 'God is our Lord, Muhammad is our Prophet, the Mahdi is our imam', and that a new caliphate had begun. Almoravid mosques were purified and attempts were made to correct their orientation (qibla). Also, both non-Almohad Muslims and non-Muslims were obliged to learn the Almohad profession of faith, in what was in fact a forced conversion to the Almohad understanding of true religion. New scholarly elites - entrusted with the propagation and maintenance of Almohad beliefs and practices - were created by the Almohad caliphs. Philosophy flourished with Ibn Tufayl and Ibn Rushd (Averroes) serving the new rulers. These articles by Professor Fierro are an attempt at explaining what put in motion such a revolution, how it developed and changed, and the influences it had both in the Islamic and non Islamic worlds. Eight of the studies have been translated into English, from Spanish and French, specially for publication here.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter I|32 pages

      Spiritual Alienation and Political Activism: The Ġurabā’ in al-Andalus During the Sixth/Twelfth Century 1

      ByMaribel Fierro

      chapter II|24 pages

      Between the Maghreb and al-Andalus: Political and Religious Authority under the Almoravids

      ByEd McAllister

      chapter III|20 pages

      The Mahdī Ibn Tūmart and al-Andalus: The Construction of Almohad Legitimacy 1

      ByEd McAllister

      chapter IV|15 pages

      The Almohads and the Fatimids

      ByMaribel Fierro

      chapter V|32 pages

      The Genealogies of ‘Abd al-Mu’min, the First Almohad Caliph 1

      ByJeremy Rogers

      chapter VI|19 pages

      Coins of the Almohad Era: I. The dinar of Qāḍī ‘Iyāḍ that never was II. When the first Almohad coins were minted, and the question of the lawfulness of minting coins 1

      ByJeremy Rogers

      chapter VII|32 pages

      Revolution and Tradition: Some Aspects of the World of Scholarship in al-Andalus during the Almoravid and Almohad Periods 1

      ByJeremy Rogers

      chapter VIII|34 pages

      Legal Doctrine and Practice under the Almohads

      ByJeremy Rogers

      chapter IX|3 pages

      The Title of the Almohad Chronicle of Ibn Ṣāḥib al-Ṣalāt

      ByJeremy Rogers

      chapter X|15 pages

      Some Considerations on Almohad Itinerant Power

      ByJeremy Rogers

      chapter XI|24 pages

      Christian Success and Muslim Fear in Andalusī Writings During the Almoravid and Almohad Periods *

      ByMaribel Fierro

      chapter XII|23 pages

      The Legal Policies of the Almohad Caliphs and Ibn Rushd’s Bidāyat al-Mujtahid 1

      ByMaribel Fierro

      chapter XIII|19 pages

      Conversion, ancestry and universal religion: the case of the Almohads in the Islamic West (sixth/twelfth—seventh/thirteenth centuries)

      ByJeremy Rogers

      chapter XIV|26 pages

      Alfonso X “The Wise”: The Last Almohad Caliph?

      ByJeremy Rogers
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