Lost Somewhere in Between? On the Transmission of History from Islamic West to East in Premodern Times: The Case of the Almohad Caliph Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb and the Battle of Alarcos
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This quote suggests that as far as events in al-Andalus and the Maghrib were concerned, Khvāndamīr had nothing to say about the 250 years between the rise of the Marīnids and their conquest of the Almohad capital Marrakesh in 668 H/ 1269 CE and his own time, given the total lack of available books on the subject. And yet, we might expect that Khvāndamīr of all scholars would have had more information at his disposal, as he belonged to an important line of histori-