Banū Ghāniya dynasty, 1126-1203
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- Work cat: Baadj, Amar Salem. Saladin, the Almohads and the Banū Ghāniya, 2015:ECIP title page (Banū Ghāniya) ECIP introduction (the Banu Ghaniya, a branch of the Almoravids (al-Murabiṭun); they survived the fall of the Almoravid Empire in al-Andalus and the Maghrib at the hands of their enemies the Almohads in the mid-12th century by taking refuge in Majorca with their partisans; established an independent principality, engaged in piracy and trade with their neighbors in the western Mediterranean; in 599/1203 the Almohads captured Majorca and put an end to the half-century of rule by the Banu Ghaniya there; the only monograph in a European language about the Banu Ghaniya is Alfred Bel's 1903 study, Les Benou Ghania)
- OCLC, Apr. 17, 2015(Bel, A. (Alfred). Les Benou Ghânya, derniers représentants de l'empire almoravide et leur lutte contre l'empire almohade)
- Bosworth, Clifford Edmund. The new Islamic dynasties, 1996, viewed online Apr. 20, 2015:page 21 (the Banū Ghāniya; 520-99/1126-1203; the Balearic Islands)
- Wikipedia, Apr. 20, 2015(Banu Bhaniya, an Almoravid Sanhaja Berber dynasty; their first leader, Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Yusuf, descent of the 5th Almoravid emir, was appointed governor of the Balearic Islands in 1126; following the collapse of the Almoravid power at the hands of the Almohads in the 1140s, the Banu Ghaniya continued to govern the Balearic Islands as independent emirs until about 1203, with a brief interruption in the 1180s; later leaders tried to reconquer the Maghreb, in particular Ifriqiya, and conquered most of modern Tunisia from about 1180 onward)
- Wikipedia, Spanish version, Apr. 20, 2015(Banu Ganiya, or Banu Ghaniya; an Almoravid family and dynasty of Berber-Sanhaya origin that governed the Balearic islands between 1126 and 1203)
- Oncken, Guillermo (ed.). Historia universal, tomo 5, Los bereberes en África y en Sicilia, 1890, viewed online Apr. 20, 2015:page 492 (los Benu Ganiya; governed the Balearic islands for the Almoravids)
- Biografías y Vidas, la enciclopedia biográfica en línea, website viewed Apr. 20, 2015(Banu Ganiya; Almoravid family of the Lamtuna clan; the last Ganiya resisted the Almohads in Ifriqiya until 1235)
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The Banu Ghaniya were a Massufa Sanhaja Berber dynasty and a branch of the Almoravids. Their first leader, Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Yusuf, a son of Ali ibn Yusuf al-Massufi and the Almoravid Princess Ghaniya, was appointed as governor of the Balearic Islands in 1126. Following the collapse of the Almoravid power at the hands of the Almohads in the 1140s, the Banu Ghaniya continued to govern the Balearic Islands as independent emirs until about 1203, with a brief interruption in the 1180s. Later leaders (Ali ibn Ishaq and Yahya) made a determined attempt to reconquer the Maghreb (and in particular Ifriqiya), taking Bougie, Constantine and Algiers, and conquering most of modern Tunisia from about 1180 onwards. They were influential in the downfall of the Almohad Empire in the Eastern Maghreb. In Tunisia, Ali ibn Ishaq adhered to the Abbasid Caliphate and was formally appointed by Al-Mustadi with the title of "heir of the Almoravids".
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