Fromherz A.J. The Almohads: The Rise of an Islamic Empire

I. B. Tauris, 2010. — 288 p. — ISBN: 9781845116514.Despite the importance of the Almohads in African, Near Eastern and European history, very little is currently known about who exactly the Almohads were and why they were so successful. In this book, which is the first systematic study and analysis in English of the foundational myths about the rise of the Almohads as portrayed from within the Almohad tradition.