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In Saladin, the Almohads and the Banū Ghāniya, 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 Banū Ghāniya 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.
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.
Price: $131.00
Pages: 252
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in the History and Society of the Maghrib
Publication Date:
19 June 2015
ISBN: 9789004296206
Format: Hardcover
'Das Buch, das mit einer sehr nützlichen kommentierten Übersicht über die von dem Verfasser benutzten Quellen endet, stellt eine substantielle Erweiterung unserer Kenntnisse über diese interessante, bisher aber zu wenig erforschte Periode der Geschichte Nordwestafrikas da'.
Stephan Conermann in: Sehepunkte 16 (2016), Nr. 3 [15.03.2016], URL: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2016/03/28684.html
'Students of North African history will benefit from Baadj’s use of heretofore ignored sources, in particular the Midmar of Ibn Taqi al-Din (d. 1220 CE). The domain of the Abbasids had fractured long before Saladin and the Almohads; it was not to be restored'.
Kenneth W. Meyer, Western Washington University, in African Studies Quarterly, Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2017, pp. 83-84
Stephan Conermann in: Sehepunkte 16 (2016), Nr. 3 [15.03.2016], URL: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2016/03/28684.html
'Students of North African history will benefit from Baadj’s use of heretofore ignored sources, in particular the Midmar of Ibn Taqi al-Din (d. 1220 CE). The domain of the Abbasids had fractured long before Saladin and the Almohads; it was not to be restored'.
Kenneth W. Meyer, Western Washington University, in African Studies Quarterly, Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2017, pp. 83-84
Amar S. Baadj, Ph.D. (2012), University of Toronto, is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at the Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg in the University of Bonn, Germany. He has published articles about the history of the medieval Maghrib and Egypt.