Aghmat
Aghmat
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Aghmat (
Berber town in Morocco
. It is today an archaeological site known as "Joumâa Aghmat".
The city is located approximately 30 km south-east of
Marrakech on the Ourika road. The initial "a" of the name may be unvocalized, and the name may sometimes be spelled "Ghmat", "Ghmate" or even the French-style "Rhmate" (as it appears in the Michelin Guide
).
According to a
Musa bin Nusair conquered the Sous
and erected the mosque at Aghmāt.
Early history
After the death of
Idrisid prince Abd Allah.[4]
When the
Sahara Desert in 1071, Zaynab married his successor Yusuf ibn Tashfin
.
By 1068/1069, the population of the city had grown considerably, and
Córdoba and noted poet. His tomb remains a place of pilgrimage to this day. Aghmat was also the place of exile where Abdallah ibn Buluggin, the former king of Granada
, wrote his memoirs.
In the years 1126, 1127 and again in 1130, the city saw a number of battles between the
Almohad army led by Ibn Tumart and Abd al-Mu'min. Following a general rout of Almoravid forces throughout Morocco and Algeria, Abd al-Mu'min entered Aghmāt without a fight on the middle day of Muharram 541 (27 June 1146).[4][5]
Beaumier, writing in 1860, stated the town still had a population of 5500, of whom 1000 were Jews.[6]
Earlier economy
souk (market). The inhabitants elected their own leader. Strictly speaking there were two Aghmāts: the commercial and political center was known as "Aghmāt Wurīka", and 8 miles distant from that was "Aghmāt Aylan" which was closed to outsiders.[7] The town was served by the seaport of Qūz[8] on the Atlantic coast
three days journey west.
Modern history
On 18 November 1950, during the
T'hami El Glaoui, and the King of Morocco Mohammed V, which eventually led to the king's brief overthrow.[9]
The archaeological ruins visible today consist of part of the city walls,
hammam, parts of some houses and qanats
(irrigation canals), and some hundred metres or so of the city ramparts.
The tomb of
in the Almoravid style.References
- ^ E. Lévi-Provençal, "Un nouveau récit de la conquête de l'Afrique du Nord", Arabica 1 (1954) 17–43.
- ISBN 2-87775-391-3)
- Phillip Hittiin The Origins of the Islamic State (1916, 1924)
- ^ a b Ibn Abi Zar, Rawd al-Qirtas, annotated Spanish translation by A. Huici Miranda, Valencia, 1964
- ^ Ibn Idhari, Al-bayan al-mughribPart III, annotated Spanish translation by A. Huici Miranda, Valencia, 1963
- ^ A. Beaumier, notes to French translation of Rawd al-Qirtas, Paris, 1860
- Al Bakri, Kitāb al-Masalik wa'l-Mamalik, French translation by M. de Slane, Paris
- ^ or Aguz, now known as Souira Guedima
- ISBN 9981-149-79-9)
External links
- Mission Archéologique d’Aghmat (MAA) : étude, conservation et valorisation de la capitale médiévale du Haouz (Maroc), orient-mediterranee.com. Retrieved January 5, 2025.
- A modern pilgrimage to the tomb of Al-Mutamid
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