Los Almohades

Of the nine-centuries long history of Muslim presence in the Iberian peninsula (711–1614), it is not surprising that certain periods attract more attention than others. We want to know about the initial conquest of 711, the great days of the emirate/caliphate of Cordova, and how the story ended—the circumstances under which the political independence of al-Andalus came to be lost in 1492. The intervening four and a half centuries may be less familiar, and yet the period of the Almohads (approximately mid-twelfth to mid-thirteenth century), the subject of these volumes, is certainly not lacking in intrinsic interest, and of importance in the history of Islam and in that of Western Europe. Al-Andalus during this period was firmly integrated into a North African state ruled by Berbers. Compared with the earlier periods, for which our sources are frankly poor, sources on the Almohads are quite good. Yet it was only in

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