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A History of Europe, Key Battles

23.3 Las Navas de Tolosa 1212, Part 3, Medieval Spain, Rise of the Almohads

A History of Europe, Key Battles

Carl Rylett

History

4.4756 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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The Almohads arrive in Spain from North Africa and threaten to overwhelm the peninsula. The greatest resistance comes not from the Christian kingdoms, but from a fellow Muslim known as 'El Rey Lobo' (The Wolf King), head of a kingdom based in Murcia, a city in its golden age

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In the 1140s, a new centre of power emerged from the desert sands of North Africa,

1:04.8

which would reshape the politics of the Magreb and of Al-Andrus,

1:08.9

a new religious movement known to history as the Almahads.

1:15.6

It is all too easy to confuse Al-Maravid with Almahad, for these two successive empires have much in common, besides their first four letters.

1:29.0

The Al-Maravids, who came first, were a ruling dynasty from North Africa, who formed an empire

1:35.9

in the 11th century that stretched over the Western Maghreb and Al-Andalus.

1:43.0

Barnaby Rogerson, in his book, A Traveller's History of North Africa,

1:47.7

writes how both tribes United de Maghreb for a century,

1:52.1

starting off as a movement of Muslim reform.

1:55.4

Both were founded by charismatic scholars

1:57.9

and were based on the military prowess of a core group of Berber tribes

2:02.5

and both used the southern Moroccan city of Marrakesh as their capital.

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