Governing the Empire: Provincial Administration in the Almohad Caliphate (1224-1269)

Buresi, Pascal; Aallaoui, Hicham El

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“…As scholars have noted, the Almohad empire's ideology set it apart from other Islamic regimes of the time, in which a de facto separation of political, religious and judicial powers had occurred, by restoring the caliph-imam as the fount of justice, knowledge and prosperity that flowed down to the Almohad ruling class and then through society. 34 This idealistic and centralising vision is expressed in a missive from ʿAbd al-Muʾmin to the Almohad scholars in al-Andalus, composed by the caliph's chief scribe and advisor, Ibn ʿAṭiyya, on 16 Rabīʿ I 543 (4 August 1148). It places emphasis on the achievement of both justice (ʿadl) and virtue or perfection (faḍl), through ḥisba, enjoining the good and prohibiting wrong, one of the two crucial religio-political institutions covered by Ibn ʿAbdūn in his Almoravid-era manual, considered above.…”

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Relations between Rulers and Ruled in the Medieval Maghrib: The “Social Contract” in the Almoravid and Almohad Centuries, 1050–1250

Bennison

2017

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This article approaches the notion of an Islamic social contract from the perspective of the Berber inhabitants of the Maghrib and their concern that the state should be just, with a particular focus on the period between 1050 and 1250 when the region was ruled by two successsive indigenous imperial regimes, the Almoravids and the Almohads. It explores the gradual implantation of ideas of Islamic statehood in the region, their intersection with earlier indigenous beliefs and social practices, and the “naturalization” of Islamic philosophical ideas developed in the ?Abbasid East and al Andalus in the very different environment of the Maghrib. Two ideas of particular salience to the discussion are the Almoravid idea of a M?lik? “Commander of Truth or Law,” the am?r al-?aqq, and Almohad references to a utopian perfect city or polis, al-mad?na al-f??ila, in the context of their recognition of their spiritual father, Ibn T?mart, as the mahd?.

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Relations between Rulers and Ruled in the Medieval Maghrib: The “Social Contract” in the Almoravid and Almohad Centuries, 1050–1250

Bennison

2017

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“… 11. For the Almohads, see Buresi and El Alallaoui (2013), Fromherz (2013: 9–18) (historiographic), Ghouirgate (2014). …”

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Religion, war, and peace in premodern Islamicate polities and the Christian West

Buc

2021

Violence: An International Journal

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The plural Islams and the various Christianities deriving from late Antique Catholicism constitute two families of monotheisms whose relation to armed violence and to peace can be compared over the longue durée. In both, war and peace coexist as values, with the sense however that there can be a corrupting bad peace and a wicked bad war. Both—albeit through different media—produced norms governing warfare. For both, there is a strong correlation between holy war and societal reform. In both, the potential to sacralize a space that then has to be defended (New Jerusalems or second Hejaz) figures prominently. In both, radical warfare, reform, and purge of one’s own group can be triggered by apocalyptic or eschatological expectations (with figures such as a person anticipating typologically the return of the vengeful Christ, a last world emperor, a mujaddid, or a Mahdī). While this contribution focuses mainly on the pre-modern world, it ends on an attempt to relate the current war waged by Boko Haram to this past.

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Conquest and Colonialism: A Brief History of Morocco-Spain Relations

Ali

2024

Policy, Media, and the Shaping of Spain-Morocco Relations

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Governing the Empire: Provincial Administration in the Almohad Caliphate (1224-1269)

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Relations between Rulers and Ruled in the Medieval Maghrib: The “Social Contract” in the Almoravid and Almohad Centuries, 1050–1250

Relations between Rulers and Ruled in the Medieval Maghrib: The “Social Contract” in the Almoravid and Almohad Centuries, 1050–1250

Religion, war, and peace in premodern Islamicate polities and the Christian West

Conquest and Colonialism: A Brief History of Morocco-Spain Relations

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