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Fès
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...items of Muslim dress in the Middle East. Fès was the capital of several dynasties and...who chose Marrakech as their capital. Fès consists of the still vibrant old city...especially influential in the Middle Ages. Fès is the destination of pilgrims who visit...
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Fas
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
see Fès , Morocco.
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Avempace
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
, Arabic Ibn Bajja, d. 1138, Spanish-Arab philosopher. Little is known of his life, but he was born in Zaragoza and died in Fès, Morocco. Developing the tradition of Islamic Aristotelian-Neoplatonism begun in the east by al- Farabi , Avemplace was the first...
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Isaac ben Jacob ha-Kohen Al-Fasi
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
, 1013-1103, prominent Jewish Talmudic scholar of the very late Gaonic period, b. near Fès, N Africa. He headed the rabbinical school at Fès until forced out at the age of 75 by political intrigues. He then settled in Lucena, Spain, where...
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Abd al-Hafiz
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...deposed his brother Abd al-Aziz IV, he was soon confronted with uprisings and the demands of European creditors. Besieged (1911) at Fès by rebels, he was relieved by a French army. On Mar. 30, 1912, he accepted a French protectorate, and on Aug. 12 he abdicated...
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Fez
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
see Fès , Morocco.
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Dunash ben Labrat
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
, 920-90, Hebrew grammarian and poet, b. Fès. He was also called Rabbi Adonim Halevy (ha-Levi). He wrote an exhaustive criticism of Menahem's Hebrew lexicon, adding to and correcting it, and was the first to adapt the Arabic meter to Hebrew poetry.
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Idrisids
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Arabia, Idris fled to central Morocco, where he later established a state. His son, Idris II, became known as the founder of Fès. Berber insurrections and invasions by the Umayyads of Spain and the Fatimids of Tunisia brought an end to the Idrisid dynasty...
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Tangier
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Phoenicians. It was a free city under the Romans and the chief port and commercial center of Morocco until the founding (808) of Fès. It was captured from the Moors by the Portuguese in 1471 and was transferred to England as part of the dowry that Catherine...
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Islam in Africa
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Muslim community and almost immediately drove north across the Mediterranean into Europe. In Morocco, Muslims founded the city of Fès (808), which soon thereafter gave refuge to Andalusian Muslims fleeing an uprising in Córdoba (see Idrisids ). On the east coast...
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