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Civilizations & Empires

The Almoravids

c. 1056 – 1147

North and West Africa (Sahara, Morocco) and al-Andalus

A Berber Islamic reform movement founded by the Maliki scholar Abd Allah ibn Yasin that built an empire from the Sahara to al-Andalus, founding Marrakesh around 1062, before Almohads displaced it.

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A view of the Medina of Marrakesh, Morocco, the city the Almoravids founded around 1062
Credit: Maria Gropa, © UNESCO. License: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

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Sources

  1. Michael A. Toler, "Timeline: Almoravid (1053-1150)", Archnet (Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT) (Scholarly)
  2. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, "The Art of the Almoravid and Almohad Periods (ca. 1062–1269)" (Scholarly)
  3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, "Almoravids summary" (Reference)

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