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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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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; 607 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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Ancient Kingdoms of West Africa-Africa-Centred and Canaanite-Israelite Perspectives: A Collection of Published and Unpublished Studies in English and French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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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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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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MOROCCO: Morocco: From Empire to Independence
Magazine article from: The Middle East Journal; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Maghrib in the late 7th century, through the demise of the two ideologically-motivated Hispano-Maghribi empires of the Almoravids and Almohads, and the emergence of successor territorially -based Berber tribal entities, such as the Marinids and Wattasids...
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Dressed by Genoese, throttled by Croats
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/13/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...strongmen who offered protection across the continent in succeeding centuries was due to the Church and such external menaces as Almoravids, Norsemen or Mongols, who thus indirectly contributed to the utopia called Christendom. The embarrassment of a crusade...
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Jews, Visigoths and Muslims in Medieval Spain: Cooperation and Conflict
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 7/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...centered in Cordoba and the decentralized Taifa kings who followed. Roth then proceeds to the North African invasions under the Almoravids in the eleventh century and the Almohads in the twelfth, and both the Muslim and Jewish minorities under Christian rule during...
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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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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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Abdullah ibn Yasin
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...whose inhabitants (Arabic, al-Murabi-tun; English, Almoravids) gave their lives to religious instruction and devotion and...ruling the city belonged to the Zenata confederation while the Almoravids were Sanhaja. Finally, the fact that large amounts of booty...
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