Les citations de lettres de la chancellerie almohade dans les chroniques : rôle, place et fonction narrative.

The letters of the Almohad chancellery were transmitted to us for a part through chronicles written between the second half of the sixth/twelfth century and the end of the eighth/fourteenth century. However contemporary research has probably not sufficiently emphasized the fact that there were great differences between the letters quoted in the chronicles written by the Almohad subjects and the chronicles of the Marinid period. Indeed, the former are most often complete and serve to chant the story by forming whole chapters when later period sources cite them sparingly, when they do cite them. Their respective statutes differ: for the pro-Almohad sources the aim was to give the image of a power always victorious by making use of it to better mark the minds of a partisan lexicon which notably used saǧʿ ; to this end, the Almohad power brought in the organic intellectuals of the system, the ṭalaba , in order to read from the pulpit, or even to translate these letters to make them intelligible to the greatest number. However, they only play a subsidiary role in the chronicles of the Marinid and Nasrid periods, one of a document to a past that no longer exists, which serves as an addition to the narration. As such, they were most often truncated and could not constitute whole chapters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]