单词 | almohad |
释义 | Almohadn.adj. A. n. Chiefly in plural. A member of an Islamic dynasty that ruled in northern Africa and Spain during the 12th and 13th centuries after the decline of the Almoravid empire. Cf. Almoravid n.The Almohads were defeated by the Portuguese and Spanish on the Iberian peninsula in 1228. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > dynasty > [noun] > member of specific Muslim Almohad1600 Almoravid1612 Abbasid1664 Hashemite1697 Umayyad1758 Marinid1894 Saudi1933 1600 J. Golburne tr. C. de Valera Two Treat. ii. 377 The Christians..remained in Spaine..vntill the time of Don Alonso the seuenth, in whose time came out of Affrike the Almohades. 1676 G. Philips Present State Tangier 11 Under his Successors of the three Races, (the Almoravides, the Almohades, and lastly the Merines) Tangier was their chief Port for Spain. 1732 J. Anderson Royal Genealogies 398/1 Abduledi..made himself Master of Tunis, about the Decline of the Empire of the Almohades. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. li. 387 The throne of the Almohades, or Unitarians, was founded on the blindest fanaticism. 1811 T. Bourke Conc. Hist. Moors in Spain III. iii. 136 Tomru dethroned the Almoravide without much difficulty, and..commenced in his person the new dynasty of the Almohades. 1894 S. Lane-Poole Mohammedan Dynasties iii. 57 The Marīnids traced their dynasty from 1195 (591), as rulers of the highlands of Morocco; but they did not succeed to the capital of the Almohades till 1296 (667). 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 655/1 Algiers..in 1159 was occupied by the Almohades. 1989 C. Glassé Concise Encycl. Islam 38/1 The Almohads brought renewed piety and fervor for the Arab West through a powerful sense of religion not just as rules..but as spiritual authority. 2008 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 6 Nov. 62/2 The Berber dynasts—Almoravids and Almohads—who eventually took control of Córdoba and Seville..were very different from their Arab predecessors. B. adj. Of, relating to, or designating the Almohads or their religion, empire, etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > dynasty > [adjective] > specific Muslim Almohad1620 Umayyad1758 Abbasid1760 Almoravid1760 Hashemite1788 Saudi1933 Saudite1949 Saadian1951 Marinid1952 1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes 2nd Pt. Don Quixote v. 31 With more Cushions than the Almohada Moores had in all their linage. 1728 J. Morgan Hist. Barbary Epitomiz'd in Compl. Hist. Algiers I. 200 The furious War which was carrying on between the Almohade and Merin Families. 1792 R. Heron tr. J. P. C. de Florian Gonsalvo of Cordova I. 79 Two Almohade kings, both Jacobs, repeatedly crossed the sea with strong armies. 1811 T. Bourke Conc. Hist. Moors in Spain III. iv. 141 Such was the state of affairs in Spain, when Mahomet Al Nazir, fourth Prince of the Almohade dynasty, ascended the throne in Africa. 1896 New Rev. Dec. 734 The Almohade calif viewed the almost impregnable position of the great seaport. 1974 E. Gabrieli in J. Schacht & C. E. Bosworth Legacy of Islam (ed. 2) ii. 101 Further to the west flourished the Arab-Berber states sprung from the disintegration of the Almohad Empire. 1989 C. Glassé Concise Encycl. Islam 39/1 The Almohad emphasis on acknowledging the Unity of God..was to some degree a reaction against the tendencies of their predecessors, the Almoravids. 2004 Archit. Rev. June 80/1 Located in the centre of Jerez's old town in an area bounded by the old Almohad rampart. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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