Islamic civilization flourished in the Middle Ages across a vast geographical area that spans
today's Middle and Near East. First published in 2006, Medieval Islamic Civilization …

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 …

When dealing with the prolific intellectual output during the reign of Alfonso X, known to be
indebted to Arabic sources, hardly any reference is made to the Almohad context. It is …

This volume traces the second great expansion of the Islamic world eastwards from the
eleventh century to the eighteenth. As the faith crossed cultural boundaries, the trader and …

Some Muslim scholars writing under the Almoravids were favourable to a hardening of the
conditions under which Jews and Christians lived in their societies. Concern about the …

The Almohads' rule over the Islamic West—twelfth–thirteenth centuries, from western Lybia
to the Iberian Peninsula—involved the imposition of their founder's profession of faith …

Ibn Ṭufayl's (d. 581/1185) connection with Almohad rulers and involvement in the Almohad
doctrinal and intellectual project has been addressed by Nemesio Morata and Lawrence …

The Almohad movement (12th–13th centuries, Islamic West) had in the return to the direct
study of the primary sources of Islam—the Qur'an and the Sunna—and in jihād, two of its …

In the prologue to his trilingual Qur'an (Arabic-Castilian-Latin), Juan de Segovia pointed out
that among the defects of Robert of Ketton's Latin translation was the fact that it did not adopt …

This article aims to explain the importance of Christian slaves or ex‐slaves in the army and
personal guard of the Almohads. Numerous studies posit that, at the time of the Almohads …