Yaqub al-Mansur
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Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb ibn Yūsuf ibn Abd al-Muʾmin al-Manṣūr, commonly known as Yaqub al-Mansur or Moulay Yacoub, was the third Almohad caliph. Succeeding his father, al-Mansur reigned from 1184 to 1199. Hi
Yaʿqūb al-Manṣūr's unfinished mosque in Rabat
Bab Udaya was added to Qasbat al-Awdaya under al-Mansūr's reign.
"The Disgrace of Averroes": al-Mansur banishes Averroes from his court (Louis Figuier, 1867 illustration)
Siege of Tomar
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The siege of Tomar was a military engagement that took place in 1190 between the Almohad caliphate who attacked the town of Tomar in Portugal, and the Templar Order, who owned the settlement and succe
Yaqub al-Mansur
…him in Africa. After inflicting a new defeat on the Banu Ghaniya, he set off for the Iberian Peninsula to avenge his father's death. His 13 July 1190 siege of Tomar, center of the Portuguese Templars, failed to capture the fortress. However, further south, he in 1191 recaptured a major fortress, Paderne Castle and…
Citadel of Tomar
Walls of Tomar.