always covering it with a cloth. Yusuf ibn Tashfin appears as protagonist in 's Urdu Novel "Yusuf bin Tashfeen". Yusuf ibn Tashfin appears as Hero in the Drama Serial "Pukaar", presented by Pakistan's Pakistan Television Corporation in 1995. In this series, the main characters were Yousaf bin Tashfin (played by Asal Din Khan), Zainab (Yousaf's wife), Ali (Yousaf's son), Alfonso VI (played by Ayub Khosa), Mutamid bin abi Abbad (played by Hissam Qazi (Late)), and a princess of Leon (played by Laila Wasti). Yusuf appears in El Cid: the Legend as the primary antagonist. In the film, he is a cruel, unforgiving and evil man. Much unlike his alleged reputation as an honorable man. References Sources Richard Fletcher, Moorish Spain, (University of California Press, 1992) Ibn Idhari, Al-bayan al-mughrib Part III, annotated Spanish translation by A. Huici Miranda, Valencia, 1963. N. Levtzion & J.F.P. Hopkins, Corpus of early Arabic sources for West African history, Cambridge University Press, 1981, (reprint: Markus Wiener, Princeton, 2000, ). Contains English translations of extracts from medieval works dealing with the Almoravids; the selections cover some (but not all) of the information above. E. A. Freeman, History and Conquests of the Saracens, (Oxford, 1856) Codera, Decadencia y desaparición de los Almorávides en España (1889) H. R. Idris, Regierung und Verwaltung des vorderen Orients in islamischer Zeit, (Brill Academic Publishers, 1997) 1009 births 1106 deaths 11th-century Berber people 12th-century Berber people Almoravid emirs Berber rulers City founders History of Marrakesh Lamtuna