Rabat Rabat-Sale Morocco
1146 CE
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Rabat, located at the mouth of the Bou Regreg on Morocco’s northwestern coast, had been founded in the tenth century as a military camp.
In 1146, the Almohad ruler Abd al-Mu'min turns Rabat's ribat into a full scale fortress to use as a launching point for attacks on Spain.
The puritanical Almohads (Arabic: al-Muwahhidun, i.e.
"the monotheists" or "the Unitarians,"), led by the Masmuda Berber 'Abd al-Mu'min ibn 'Ali, who had in around 1130 succeeded the sect’s founder Ibn Tumart, sweep down for the Atlas Mountains to take Rabat from their Almoravid rivals in 1146 and turn this city into a full scale fortress to use as a launching point for attacks on Spain.
Many of Ahmad’s advisors warn of the dangers of crossing the Sahara, but he maintains that any path that merchants can travel can surely be used by soldiers as well.
He dispatches in October 1590 a force of fifteen hundred light cavalry and twenty-five hundred infantry, many of whom are equipped with arquebuses.
The command he entrusts to the eunuch Judar, a former Christian Spaniard who had been forcibly converted to Islam after being kidnapped as a baby and castrated before puberty.
The army travels with a transport train of eight thousand camels, one thousand packhorses, one thousand stablemen, and six hundred laborers; they also transport eight English cannons.
Judar, who Ahmad I had made a pasha in advance of this expedition, has assembled eighty Christian bodyguards for his personal detail.
...Rabat, ...
An embassy is sent to Abd al-Rahman, headed by count de Mornay and including the painter Eugène Delacroix.
The Sultan, however, refuses French demands to evacuate Tlemcen.
International recognition of the PLO has important repercussions within the Arab camp.
At an Arab summit conference held in Rabat, Morocco, on October 2628, 1974, leaders declare that the Palestinian people, under the leadership of the PLO ("their sole legitimate representative"), have the right to establish a national independent authority in liberated Palestine.
In response, King Hussein, while accepting a resolution stating that any "liberated" Palestinian territory "should revert to its legitimate Palestinian owners under the leadership of the PLO," announces that his country will exclude the West Bank from Jordan and will never enter into a federation with a Palestinian state.
Such a step would inevitably give the Palestinian population a majority and bring about the loss of his kingdom.
The Rabat decision is denounced by the more radical "rejection front," composed of the PFLP, the PFLP-General Command, the pro-Iraq Arab Liberation Front, and the Front for the Popular Palestinian Struggle, which seeks to regain all of Palestine.
Although the decision is recognized as enhancing the less extreme position of the PLO elements led by Arafat, ...