Yusuf ibn Tashfin, also Tashafin, Teshufin, (Arabic: يوسف بن تاشفين ناصر الدين بن تالاكاكين الصنهاجي, romanized: Yūsuf ibn Tāshfīn Naṣr al-Dīn ibn Tālākakīn...

was conflict fought between the Almoravid army, led by their king, Yusuf ibn Tashfin, and the forces of King Alfonso VI of Castile. The Almoravids were...

centered in the Maghreb, led by Yusuf ibn Tashfin and his descendants, and a southern one based in the Sahara, led by Abu Bakr ibn Umar and his descendants....

reigned from 1106 to 1143. Ali ibn Yusuf was born in 1084–1085 (477 AH) in Ceuta. He was the son of Yusuf ibn Tashfin, the fourth Almoravid ruler. According...

Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (c. 1137 – 4 March 1193), commonly known as Saladin, was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Hailing from a Kurdish family...

Yusuf if she needed protection. Having quelled the discontent back in the Sahara, Abu Bakr returned north to Morocco in 1072. But Yusuf ibn Tashfin had...

Yusuf ibn Tashfin in 1106. He then went to Marrakech, to take an oath to the new Amir Ali ibn Yusuf, passing through Fez where he advised Yahya ibn Abi...

against the Castilian king. Al-Mu'tamid supported the Almoravid ruler Yusuf ibn Tashfin against Alfonso in the Battle of Sagrajas in 1086. The Almoravids...

western-Algeria, modern-day Mauritania and Al-Andalus. She was married to Yusuf ibn Tashfin (r. 1061-1107) and reportedly his de facto co-ruler. She was one of...

empires came and went until the 11th century when the Almoravid Sultan Yusuf ibn Tashfin united the two settlements into what is today's Fes el-Bali (lit. 'Old...

as Cat Stevens Yusuf ibn Tashfin (c.1061–1106), King of the Berber Almoravid empire Yusuf İsmail (1857–1898), Turkish wrestler Yusuf Karamanli (1766–1838)...

Ocean at the Souss-Massa National Park. Constructed in 1972, the Yusuf Ibn Tashfin dam is the main dam on the Massa river. Northern bald ibis Souss-Massa...

army of Alfonso VI and the Almoravids under Yusuf ibn Tashfin. In 1097, the Almoravid leader, Yusuf ibn Tasfhin, crossed the Strait of Gibraltar where...

Syr ibn Abi Bakr was the son of Abu Bakr Tashfin. He was Yusuf ibn Tashfin’s nephew and he married Ibn tashfin's sister Hawwa and had a daughter and a son;...

Tashfin ibn Ali (died 23 March 1145, or 25 March 1145 CE; Arabic : تاشفين بن علي ) was the 6th Almoravid Emir, he reigned in 1143–1145. Tashfin ibn Ali...

by invaders from the Arabian Peninsula instead. Abu Bakr ibn Umar Yusuf ibn Tashfin Yahya ibn Umar al-Lamtuni Semonin, Paul (1964). "The Almoravid Movement...

Umar ibn Ali ibn al-Hajj). Further damage is averted by the intervention of Tashfin ibn Ali ibn Yusuf. 1134 – Almoravid (Tashfin ibn Ali ibn Yusuf) raids...

Tamima bint Yusuf ibn Tashfin (Arabic: تميمة بنت يوسف بن تاشفين) was an Almoravid princess, she was a woman of letters and a political leader, who contributed...

Alfonso VI, from Castile, took Toledo in 1085, Al-Mu'tamid called in Yusuf ibn Tashfin, the Berber Almoravid ruler. He had foreseen the probability that...

of Authority and Distillation of Knowledge in Ibn Ashir’s Al-Murshid al-Mu’in (The Helpful Guide)." Yusuf previously earned an associate degree in nursing...

leader of the Andalusian army in service of Ahmah al-Muqtadir, Yusuf al-Mu'taman ibn Hud, and Al-Mustain II. There is also little historical certainty...

army in mid-August under the command of Muhammad ibn Tashfin, nephew of the emir Yusuf ibn Tashfin, with the aim of recovering it. Towards 15 September...

subjugate the city again. Abdallah ibn Buluggin of Granada had distanced himself definitively from Yusuf ibn Tashfin and Alfonso VI promised to help him...

ruling Almoravid dynasty. Yusuf ibn Tashfin, the Almoravid emir (d. 1161), gave one of his daughters in marriage to Ali ibn Yusuf, the head of Ghaniya clan...

and later sold in Ireland. The city was destroyed by the Almoravid Yusuf ibn Tashfin in 1080 during his conquest of the Rif. The site has been partially...

Ibrahim ibn Tashfin (Arabic: إبراهيم بن تاشفين) (died 1147) was the seventh Almoravid Emir, who reigned shortly in 1146–1147. Once the news of the death...

after his arrival in Marrakesh, Ibn Tumart is said to have successfully sought out the Almoravid ruler Ali ibn Yusuf at a local mosque. In the famous...

him) and followers. Sultan Yusuf ibn Tashfin dies after a 45-year reign. He is succeeded by his 22-year-old son Ali ibn Yusuf as ruler of the Almoravid...

major figures of Arab nationalism, which he actively supported. Muhammad ibn Abd al-Karim was born in 1882 in the settlement of Ajdir, Morocco. He was...

and that they should be removed from power. This fatwa was used by Yusuf ibn Tashfin to justify his conquest of al-Andalus. Al-Ghazali's 11th century book...