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Yakub I
(redirected from Yaqub al-Mansur)

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Yakub I (yäkb`), 1160?–1199, ruler of Morocco (1184–99) and Moorish Spain. He was known as Yakub al-Mansur [the victorious] after his victory over Alfonso VIII of Castile at Alarcos (1195). One of the most powerful of the Almohads Almohads (ăl`məhădz), Berber Muslim dynasty that ruled Morocco and Spain in the 12th and 13th cent.
..... Click the link for more information. , he encouraged art and literature and constructed many public buildings in both Spain and Morocco, notably the Giralda at Seville, the Koutoubiya tower at Marrakech, and numerous edifices at Rabat. Yakub was a patron of Averroës Averroës (əvĕr`ōēz), Arabic Ibn Rushd, 1126–98, Spanish-Arab philosopher.
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