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  • Benabad, Joseph took Cordova, besieged Seville, and was preparing for the assault of that city, when the virtuous Benabad, sacrificing his crown and even his liberty to save his subjects from the horrors that threatened them, delivered himself up, together with his family of a hundred children, to the disposal of the Almoravide.

    History of the Moors of Spain M. Florian

  • But others, founding their assertions upon more plausible reasoning, say that the petty Mussulman kings, who were the neighbours or tributaries of Benabad, justly alarmed at his alliance with a {93} Christian king, solicited the support of the Almoravide.

    History of the Moors of Spain M. Florian

  • [4] The Almoravide and Almohade princes, who ruled both in

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various

  • In 1093 the Moors of the Almoravide dynasty, under the Caliph Yusuf, swept irresistibly upwards into the Iberian Peninsula, recapturing

    The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • Almoravide leader in Spain, Yusuf ibn Tashifin, is said to have reached

    Mystics and Saints of Islam Claud Field 1902

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