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[QUOTE]Originally posted by alTakruri: [QB] I'm currently separated from my library but always will recommend UNESCO's General History of Africa as a still excellent reference after nearly two decades since its publication. Hopefully another forum member will post up to date and specific resources for you. In the meantime here's a little something on al muWahhidun and Andalusian academia. [QUOTE][i] The Almohad period in al-Andalus was characterized by cultural fluorescence ... `Abd al-Mu'min's successor, Abu Ya`qub Yusuf, was a highly cultivated man who amassed a large library and patronized the arts and intellectual endeavors. In was in his court that the philosopher, Ibn Tufayl, found patronage. It was Ibn Tufayl who introduced the famed Aristotelian philosopher Ibn Rushd, known to medieval Europe as Averroes, to the Almohad court. And it was under the Almohads that the famous Jewish philosopher Musa ibn Maymun, or Maimonides, began his career. Mysticism also flourished in this period which produced one of the most famous Sufis of all time, Ibn al-`Arabi. Architectural projects were also undertaken. Many Andalusi cities had walls built during the latter half of the twelfth century and which can still be seen today. Three distinctive minarets constructed during this period also survive: the Giralda of Seville, The Tour Hassan in Rabat and the Koutoubiyya in Marrakesh.[/i][/QUOTE]I must add that Maymun left Andalusia as a child, had a low opinion of Berberiscos -- whether Muslim or Jew -- as very religious but highly superstitious, and attained his scholarly fame in Egypt. The above mentioned Koutoubiya in Marrakesh was a great library and bookshop, the first book bazaar in western history. [QUOTE][i] ... the crucial role of these two powers from Morocco can be seen if one thinks of all the eminent names who lived in the realm of Islam under Almoravid and Almohad rule, such as the herbalist Al-Ghafiqi (d.1165) wrote Kitab al-Adwiyat al-Mufradah (the Book of Simple Drugs) and Ibn al-Baytar (1197-1248), of Malaga, the author of the largest pharmacological encyclopedia that has survived to our time; the traveler Ibn Jubair (Ibn Jubayr); Ibn Rushd (1126-1192); the astronomer Jabr Ibn Aflah (d.1145) and so many more, who would have been lost to Islamic civilization had Spain been lost prior to the Almoravids, and their successors, the Almohads.[/i][/QUOTE]Read more at [URL=http://www.muslimheritage.com/uploads/Morocco.pdf]Morocco as a Great Centre of Islamic Science and Civilisation[/URL] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [qb] Also, this Malaysian Muslim says that the al Murabitun and al Muwahhidun sects of Islam were AGAINST learning and science and are the CAUSE of the downfall of TEACHING in Islam. [QUOTE][b] 16. These North African Muslims had come under the rule of the Al Morabid (Al Murabitun) and the Al Mohads (Al Muwahidun), Muslim sects which rejected all learning except that about the religion. Upon the establishment of their rule in Spain they discouraged the acquisition of knowledge other than that specifically about religion. After the coming of the Almorabids and Almohad, there were practically no more Muslim scientists, physicians and scholars. [/b][/QUOTE] http://www.mmu.edu.my/graduate/special_award/tun_mahathir_speech-honorary_doc.html Other than than, where can I find more information on these groups? It seems that much Moorish history is, as you said, confused and jumbled up, depending on who you get your information from. [/qb][/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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