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Almoravid
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Almoravid a member of a federation of Muslim Berber peoples that established an empire in Morocco, Algeria, and Spain in the second half of the 11th century. They were in turn driven out by the
Almohads, losing their capital Marrakesh in 1147.
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Fall of ancient Ghana was end of Black Power
Newspaper article from: New Pittsburgh Courier; 2/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...army of religious zealots known as the Almoravids. Further, it can be reasonably argued...year 1076 is when the fervently Islamic Almoravids (Arab Berbers) completed a jihad...involved in a nearly 40-year war with the Almoravids who declared holy war against Ghana...
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MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR EMERITUS DISCUSSES DYNASTY AMONG THE DUNES
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 10/24/2009; 409 words
; ...talk about his forthcoming book on the Almoravids at 7 a.m. this Sunday, Oct. 25...FM (89.5 and wmot.org). The Almoravids emerged from a nomadic life in the Sahara...dynamic preacher who instilled in the Almoravids an appreciation for Islam on cultural...
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EL Cid Campeador.
Magazine article from: Calliope; 5/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...lived. The great Moorish army of the Almoravids crossed the Strait of Gibraltar, intent...three years, all went well. Then the Almoravids returned. Alfonso ordered Cid Ruy to...determined to win the city back. When the Almoravids marched on him, he cut off their advance...
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The Caliphate in the West: An Islamic Political Institution in the Iberian Peninsula.
Magazine article from: The Historian; 1/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...rulers--reveals that the institution endured until the Almoravids invaded Iberia more than fifty years later. Even then, what...interpretation convincingly demonstrates that it is the advent of the Almoravids, not the departure of the Umayyads, that constitutes the...
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Through Time.(history of Morocco)
Magazine article from: Faces: People, Places, and Cultures; 2/1/2001; 606 words
; ...Morocco. Islam becomes the dominant religion. 1062-1147 The Almoravids, a Berber clan, control Morocco. 1147-14th Century The Almohads, another Berber group, defeat the Almoravids and gain control of Morocco. The Almohads and their leader...
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North Africa, Islam and the Mediterranean World
Magazine article from: Journal of Third World Studies; 4/1/2004; ; 569 words
; ...2000. 202 pp. This book presents North Africa, from the Almoravids to the Algerian War, as a crossroads between western Europe...Tunisia (p. 198), this study sheds some new thought on the Almoravids; the international trade of the Sijilmasa; the interconnections...
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Ancient Kingdoms of West Africa-Africa-Centred and Canaanite-Israelite Perspectives: A Collection of Published and Unpublished Studies in English and French
Magazine article from: The International Journal of African Historical Studies; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...historical interactions of Ghana, Mali, Songhay, and the Almoravids. These studies are followed by a final set of comments titled...links between the origins and the interactions of Ghana, the Almoravids, Mali, and Songhay, provide a core of originality to this...
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The Black church: Its roots are deep
Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Tribune, The; 2/7/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...Ghana, perhaps four million citizens, before its fall to the Almoravids in 1076; and, their place of habitation was Kanem, an area...fall of the massive Ghana Empire around the year 1076, the Almoravids, around the year 1030, had converted many people of ancient...
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Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of al-Andalus. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 9/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...conquest of the Visigothic Kingdom and proceeds with four chapters on the Umayyad period, two on the Taifa Kingdoms, one on the Almoravids, two on the Almohads, and one on the Nasrids. Kennedy explains clearly the political, military, and economic conditions...
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Former Boxer Declares Interest in LG Chairmanship.
News Wire article from: Africa News Service; 5/24/2002; 700+ words
; ...is by nature a political animal." Alhaji Ali who is also a private security consultant and chief executive officer of the Almoravids Security Service, said most of the people that are joining politics today are in politics in order to salvage the country...
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Almoravids
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Almoravids (Arab., al-murābi...x12B;n. Invited into Spain, the Almoravids defeated Alfonso VI at Sagrajas in 1086...their initial austerity and zeal, the Almoravids declined into a more lax and ostentatious...
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Morocco
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...religious and cultural centre. In the mid-11th century, the Almoravids conquered Morocco, and established a vast Muslim empire. The Almohad dynasty succeeded the Almoravids. In the 15th century, the Moors retreated from Spain, and Spain...
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Almohads
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...tribes of the Atlas Mts. area to purify Islam and oust the Almoravids . His successors, Abd al-Mumin , Yusuf II, and Yakub I...Spain, and by 1174 the Almohads had completely displaced the Almoravids. With time the Almohads lost some of their fierce purifying...
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The Cid
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Aragon, concentrated on repelling the advance of the Berber Almoravids in eastern Spain. In November 1092 he began a siege of Valencia...rule, but in 1102 she was forced to abandon Valencia to the Almoravids. Further Reading The most thorough study of the Cid is by...
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Yusuf ibn Tashufin
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Africa, from 1061 on Ibn Tashufin was virtual leader of the Almoravids. Ibn Tashufin's career is divided in two phases: the conquest...Berber rule. Since Ibn Tashufin, like the founder of the Almoravids, was an austere man, intent on implementing a strict Maliki...
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