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The Almohad Revolution: Politics and Religion in the Islamic West during the Twelfth-Thirteenth Centuries

The Almohad Revolution: Politics and Religion in the Islamic West during the Twelfth-Thirteenth... 176 Book Reviews The Almohad Revolution: Politics and Religion in the Islamic West during the Twelfth-Thirteenth Centuries MARIBEL FIERRO, 2012 [Variorum Collected Studies Series: CS996] Burlington, VT and Aldershot: Ashgate xxviii + 330 pp., maps £81.00/$154.95 (hardback) ISBN 9781409440536 Maribel Fierro’s The Almohad Revolution features fourteen articles based on her pre- viously-published work on the Almohads (Arabic al-Muwahhidu¯n). In addition to ˙ ˙ the articles, the volume contains a new introduction, updated notes, and a compre- hensive index, all of which reflect years of meticulous scholarship on the history of the Islamic West in the sixth/twelfth and seventh/thirteenth centuries. In the introduction, Fierro details her initial foray into Almohad history, which began when the Spanish scholar María Jesús Viguera invited her to contribute a section to the multi-volume work Historia de España Menéndez Pidal. Titled “La reli- gión”, her section was included in the volume pertaining to the Almoravids and Almohads that was published in 1997. Writing and researching the section led Fierro to begin studying various aspects of the Almohad experience. Her work until that point had mostly focused on early Islamic history, particularly the Umayyads in al-Andalus. Fierro also briefly describes in the introduction the content of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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176 Book Reviews The Almohad Revolution: Politics and Religion in the Islamic West during the Twelfth-Thirteenth Centuries MARIBEL FIERRO, 2012 [Variorum Collected Studies Series: CS996] Burlington, VT and Aldershot: Ashgate xxviii + 330 pp., maps £81.00/$154.95 (hardback) ISBN 9781409440536 Maribel Fierro’s The Almohad Revolution features fourteen articles based on her pre- viously-published work on the Almohads (Arabic al-Muwahhidu¯n). In addition to ˙ ˙ the...
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176 Book Reviews The Almohad Revolution: Politics and Religion in the Islamic West during the Twelfth-Thirteenth Centuries MARIBEL FIERRO, 2012 [Variorum Collected Studies Series: CS996] Burlington, VT and Aldershot: Ashgate xxviii + 330 pp., maps £81.00/$154.95 (hardback) ISBN 9781409440536 Maribel Fierro’s The Almohad Revolution features fourteen articles based on her pre- viously-published work on the Almohads (Arabic al-Muwahhidu¯n). In addition to ˙ ˙ the articles, the volume contains a new introduction, updated notes, and a compre- hensive index, all of which reflect years of meticulous scholarship on the history of the Islamic West in the sixth/twelfth and seventh/thirteenth centuries. In the introduction, Fierro details her initial foray into Almohad history, which began when the Spanish scholar María Jesús Viguera invited her to contribute a section to the multi-volume work Historia de España Menéndez Pidal. Titled “La reli- gión”, her section was included in the volume pertaining to the Almoravids and Almohads that was published in 1997. Writing and researching the section led Fierro to begin studying various aspects of the Almohad experience. Her work until that point had mostly focused on early Islamic history, particularly the Umayyads in al-Andalus. Fierro also briefly describes in the introduction the content of

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