author | Insight Turkey https://www.insightturkey.com/ author EN authorAs a dynasty based in medieval North Africa and southern Spain, the Almohads have received relatively little attention from Anglophone scholars in Islamic Studies, many of whom work from a Middle Eastern perspective. Allen Fromherz’s book is thus a very welcome contribution to the field. His over-arching aim is to present an account of the rise of the Almohads by looking at the Almohad movement’s leader, Muḥammad b. Tūmart; the Maṣmūda Berber tribal environment in which the empire arose; and the doctrines by which Ibn Tūmart galvanised these tribes from the High Atlas mountains of Morocco.https://www.insightturkey.com/author/amira-k-bennison/the-almohads-the-rise-of-an-islamic-empirehttps://www.insightturkey.com/author/amira-k-bennison/the-almohads-the-rise-of-an-islamic-empireFri, 01 Apr 2011 14:59:00 GMT