It was the 129th year following the Hijrah and Amirul Mu’mineen Marwan II – the last of the Damascene Umayyad Caliphs was preoccupied with military campaigns against rebels and renegades causing him a thousand and one problems. If he wasn’t engaged in some sort of internal power struggle or plot emanating from internal family feuds, […]
A Brief History of Yusuf Ibn Tashfin (d.500 AH) رحمه الله The al-Murabitun (Almoravids) were a Berber dynasty whose primary motivate was to rid their society of innovations and folkloric practices that were antithetical to orthodox Islam. They followed the Malikite school of jurisprudence and made it the backbone of their judicial policy, spreading it […]