Almoravid dynasty
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Almoravid Empire المرابطون | |
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1040–1147 | |
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Capital | Aghmat (1040-1062), Marrakech(1062-1147) & Córdoba |
Common languages | Berber languages (predominant), Classical Arabic, Mozarab, Hebrew language, African Romance & Andalusian Arabic |
Religion | Malikite Islam (predominant), Roman Catholic, Ibadi, Judaism & Sufism |
Government | Caliphate |
Caliph | |
• 1040-1059 | Abdallah ibn Yasin |
• 1146–1147 | Ishaq ibn Ali |
History | |
• Established | 1040 |
• Disestablished | 1147 |
Area | |
3,885,000 km2 (1,500,000 sq mi) | |
Currency | Dinar & Maravedi |
The Almoravids were a Berber[1] dynasty from the Sahara that ruled over a wide area of northwestern Africa and the Iberian peninsula during the 11th century.
Under this dynasty the Moorish empire included present-day Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Gibraltar, Tlemcen (in Algeria) and a great part of what is now Senegal and Mali in the south, and Spain and Portugal to the north in Europe. At its greatest extent, the empire stretched 3,000 kilometres north to south (an all-time latitude spanner until Spanish America).
Rulers[change | change source]
- Abdallah ibn Yasin (1040-1059)
- Yusuf ibn Tashfin (1061–1106)
- Ali ibn Yusuf (1106–42)
- Tashfin ibn Ali (1142–46)
- Ibrahim ibn Tashfin (1146)
- Ishaq ibn Ali (1146–1147)
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References[change | change source]
- ↑ Glick, Thomas F. Islamic And Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages. (2005) Brill Academic Publishers page 37
- General History of Africa, Africa from the Seventh to the Eleventh Century, Ed. M. Elfasi, Ch. 13 I.Hrbek and J.Devisse, The Almoravids (pp. 336–366), UNESCO, 1988
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Other websites[change | change source]
- Historical maps of Almoravid Dynasty[permanent dead link] Maps to be combined and compared
- Almoravids Dynasty[permanent dead link] Berber dynasty