Post by anansi on Dec 26, 2017 23:53:19 GMT -5
Recently I was going over the Almoravid dynasty, and happened on an interesting connection with a specific Ghanaian dynasty ruling in Spain.
As we all know, the Almoravid started on the banks of the river Senegal under the leadership of the Sanhaja , after inflecting a mortal wound on the Wagadu empire aka Ghana, later to be undone by ecological disaster and the rise of Mali.
we also know that troops, of the defeated nation volunteered themselves into the Almoravid empire, but what was surprising to me was ,they seemed to have kept their distinct ethnic identity among the Almoravid and having a dynasty under that ethnic name of the Banu Ghaniya or people/ Children of Ghana.
matter of fact their dynasty founder was none other than Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Yusuf Ben Ghaniya. Who ruled the Balearic islands of Spain.
{Following the collapse of the Almoravid power at the hand 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 Eastern Maghrib.[5] 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".[6]}
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banu_Ghaniya
So in essence we are looking at,atleast a partially Sonniki / lamtuna or Sanhaja dynasty here, a good rebuttal for those folks who want to tell the world that "sub Saharan Africans" had little to do with the Moors or were merely peons.
As we all know, the Almoravid started on the banks of the river Senegal under the leadership of the Sanhaja , after inflecting a mortal wound on the Wagadu empire aka Ghana, later to be undone by ecological disaster and the rise of Mali.
we also know that troops, of the defeated nation volunteered themselves into the Almoravid empire, but what was surprising to me was ,they seemed to have kept their distinct ethnic identity among the Almoravid and having a dynasty under that ethnic name of the Banu Ghaniya or people/ Children of Ghana.
matter of fact their dynasty founder was none other than Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Yusuf Ben Ghaniya. Who ruled the Balearic islands of Spain.
{Following the collapse of the Almoravid power at the hand 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 Eastern Maghrib.[5] 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".[6]}
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banu_Ghaniya
So in essence we are looking at,atleast a partially Sonniki / lamtuna or Sanhaja dynasty here, a good rebuttal for those folks who want to tell the world that "sub Saharan Africans" had little to do with the Moors or were merely peons.
