Yaʿqūb ibn Yūsuf ibn Abd al-Muʾmin al-Manṣūr (Arabic: أبو يوسف يعقوب بن يوسف بن عبد المؤمن المنصور; d. 23 January 1199), commonly known as Yaqub al-Mansur...

On 25 January 1199, al-Nasir's father Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur died; al-Nasir was proclaimed the new caliph that very day. Al-Nasir inherited from his...

incomplete mosque in Rabat, Morocco. It was commissioned by Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur, the third caliph of the Almohad Caliphate, near the end of the 12th...

his death. He was a son of Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur and brother of Muhammad al-Nasir and Abdallah al-Adil. Al-Ma'mun was the first Almohad ruler to...

Muslims and Christians for control of Spain. Muslim leader Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur defeated the Franks at the Battle of Alarcos (1195). After the battle...

created the white race Yaqub al-Charkhi (1360–1360), Naqshbandi Sheykh and student of Khwaja Baha' al-Din Naqshband Ya'qub al-Mansur, Almohad ruler Reigned...

Ahmad al-Mansur (Arabic: أبو العباس أحمد المنصور, Ahmad Abu al-Abbas al-Mansur, also Ahmad al-Mansur al-Dahabbi (Arabic: أحمد المنصور الذهبي, lit. 'Ahmad...

as the Moulay al-Yazid Mosque, is a historic mosque in Marrakesh, Morocco. It was originally built by the Almohad ruler Yaqub al-Mansur in 1185–1190 CE...

reconquered Trujillo, Montánchez, and Talavera. In 1189 the Almohad caliph Yaqub al-Mansur returned from Marrakesh to fight the Portuguese who, with the help...

al-Mumin, Abu Yaqub Yusuf (Yusuf I, ruled 1163–1184) and Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur (Yaʻqūb I, ruled 1184–1199), were both able men. Initially their government...

banning of any religious material written by non-Zahiris. Yusuf's son al-Mansur would eventually take the reforms even further, actually burning non-Zahiri...

by Yaq'ub al-Mansur at the end of the 12th century, and eventually became modern-day Rabat. Wikisource has original works by or about: Abd al-Mu'min Magill...

the south of the old city. Rabat was founded by the Almohad caliph Yaqub al-Mansur with the aim of serving as his capital, but the project was abandoned...

died on 29 July 1184. Yaʿqūb al-Manṣūr, the new Almohad caliph, decided to invade Portugal after they conquered Silves. Yaqub was joined by forces from...

period. Abdelwahid was born in Marrakech in 1185 during the reign of Yaqub al-Mansur, in 1194 he moved to Fes to pursue his studies, but continued traveling...

Moulay Abd al-Aziz bin Hassan (Arabic: عبد العزيز بن الحسن), born on 24 February 1881 in Marrakesh and died on 10 June 1943 in Tangier, was a sultan of...

Death of the Almohad ruler Abu Yaqub Yusuf, accession of Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur, Khusrau Malik laid siege to Sialkot, but was driven away by Husain...

the southern part of the medina of Marrakesh. The Kasbah, built by Yaqub al-Mansur, is the site of the nearby El Mansouria Mosque (or Kasbah Mosque) and...

al-Mansur (c. 1160–1199), third Almohad ruler Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd Al-Haqq or Al Mansur Al Marini (1212–1286), founder of Marinid dynasty Al-Mansur of...

Abd al-Malik visited Istanbul on several occasions. He went to the Ottoman capital in July 1571, and then was involved with his brother al-Mansur in the...

(including Northumberland and Cumberland). January 23 – Caliph Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur dies at Marrakesh after a 15-year reign in which he has defeated the...

Leo Africanus, city walls are built by the command of the Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur. 1578: The Battle of Alcácer Quibir, or Battle of the Three Kings,...

(complete list) – Abd al-Mu'min, Caliph (1147–1163) Abu Yaqub Yusuf, Caliph (1163–1184) Yaqub al-Mansur, Caliph (1184–1199) Muhammad al-Nasir, Caliph (1199–1213)...

orbs. It was completed under the reign of the Berber Almohad Caliph Yaqub al-Mansur around 1195. The eastern spires of the Romanesque Speyer Cathedral...

Abd al-Hafid of Morocco (Arabic: عبد الحفيظ بن الحسن العلوي) or Moulay Abdelhafid (24 February 1875 – 4 April 1937) (Arabic: عبد الحفيظ) was the Sultan...

the major city of Silves in south-western Iberia, the Almohad caliph Yaqub al-Mansur decided to undertake a number of vigorous campaigns against Portugal...

captured by the Portuguese on 24 June. In 1190, the Almohad Caliph, Yaqub al-Mansur, returned to Seville after a failed campaign against Silves. The Caliph...

al-Andalus to pledge allegiance to him in 1151, he received them in this palace. Later in the 12th century, when the Almohad caliph Yaqub al-Mansur (r...

Battle of Alarcos, he was roundly defeated by the caliph Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur. The reoccupation of the surrounding territory by the Almohads was...

Zara’ al-Fassi, where he described the victory of the Almohads, led by Yaqub al-Mansur, in the Battle of Alarcos over the Spanish Christian forces, led by...