Messier, Ronald A.
The Almoravids and the Meanings of Jihad

Messier offers a scholarly, highly readable account of the 11th-12th century rulers of Morocco and Muslim Spain who offered a full range of meanings of jihad and challenged Ibn Khaldun's paradigm for the rise and fall of regimes. - Contents: Islamic reformism comes to West Africa, CE eleventh century. - Gateway of the Sahara. - From Aghmat to Marrakech. - The second founding of Fez. - The urban nomad. - War in the Makhzan. - Jihad in Andalusia. - The statesman. - A war of sieges with the Taifa kings. - The Almoravids confront El Cid. - Ali Ibn Yusuf: Setting his house in order. - Ali Ibn Yusuf faces Muslim and Christian challengers. - Voices of dissent. - The center cannot hold. - The Almoravids and Ibn Khaldun. XXII,248 Seiten mit 24 Abb., gebunden (Praeger Publishers 2010) textsauber, leichte Gebrauchsspuren/clean text pages, minor traces of use