Die offiziellen almohadischen Briefe – ein vernachlässigtes Fragment im Mosaik der politischen und literarischen Geschichte des Maghreb im Mittelalter
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Abstract
The present thesis focuses on thirty-seven official Almohad letters written in the 12th and 13th centuiries. The time of the Almohad Empire (1147-1268) has been a fascinating and rich period in the history of the Islamic West due mainly to two outstanding features: its specific political and religous doctrine and its unprecedented territorial expansion. The extant historical sources of the overwhelmingly Oriental origin which have been written down mostly after the decline of the Almohad dynasty draw a very blurred picture of its evenemental history and shed little light on the underlying structure of the Almohad society. The collection of the mentioned thirty-seven official Almohad documents was edited for the first time in 1941, but has remained largely unheeded in terms of scientific research since then. The letters offer an authentic and immediate insight into the Almohad history as well as into the ideological “lining” for many of the reported events. Thus, this collection enlarges the corpus of the authentic contemporary Almohad sources. In this thesis, seven official Almohad letters have been sorted out to be extensively focused on. Each of these documents is presented in a separate chapter. Their translation into German and the analysis of their historicity are complemented by and concluded with the summary of the results achieved. The concluding chapter is dedicated to the comprehensive interpretation of what has been inferred in the preceding chapters. The study is extended by two attachments: For the first time, all thirty-seven Almohad letters have been summarized in German. Furthermore, a completely novel collection of references concerning the Arabic figurative parlance of the official writings in the Western Muslim world is given. The objective of this second attachment is twofold: the disambiguation of many of the ambiguous formulations in the official Almohad letters and the creation of a reliable basis for the question, to which extent they are historic.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.070 | 0.007 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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