Saladin, the Almohads and the Banū Ghāniya : the contest for North Africa (12th and 13th centuries) / by Amar Salem Baadj.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baadj, Amar Salem, author.

Series:

Studies in the history and society of the Maghrib ; v. 7.

Studies in the history and society of the Maghrib ; volume 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Almoravides.

Almohades.

Africa, North--History--647-1517.

Africa, North.

North Africa.

History.

Almohades--Africa, North.

Almoravides--Africa, North.

Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 1137-1193.

Saladin.

Banū Ghāniya dynasty, 1126-1203.

Banū Ghāniya dynasty.

Physical Description:

250 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Brill, 2015.

Summary:

In Saladin, the Almohads and the Banu Ghaniya, 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 Banu Ghaniya 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Setting the stage

2. The eastern Maghrib in the period of city-states and petty dynasties

3. The coming of the Almohads and the rise of the Banu Ghaniya

4. The emergence of a new order in Egypt

5. The Ayyubids and the West

6. The Almohad response under al-Manṣur

7. The long career of Yaḥya b. Ghaniya

8. Conclusion

Appendix A: Primary sources. A.1 Maghribi historians

A.2 Mashriqi historians

A.3 Geographers and travelers.

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Toronto, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004296206

9004296204

9789004298576

9004298576

OCLC:

910239468