21 Facts About Almoravid dynasty

The Almoravid dynasty emerged from a coalition of the Lamtuna, Godala and Massufa, nomadic Berber tribes living in what is Mauritania and the Western Sahara, traversing the territory between the Draa, the Niger, and the Senegal rivers.

Term "Almoravid dynasty" comes from the Arabic "al-Murabit", through the Spanish: almoravide.

Name "Almoravid dynasty" was tied to a school of Malikite law called "Dar al-Murabitin" founded in Sus al-Aksa, modern day Morocco, by a scholar named Waggag ibn Zallu.

The eastern Sanhaja included the Kutama Berbers, who had been the base of the Fatimid rise in the early 10th century, and the Zirid Almoravid dynasty, who ruled Ifriqiya as vassals of the Fatimids after the latter moved to Egypt in 972.

Almoravid dynasty's name can be read as "son of Ya-Sin", suggesting he had obliterated his family past and was "re-born" of the Holy Book.

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Almoravid dynasty responded to questioning with charges of apostasy and handed out harsh punishments for the slightest deviations.

Almoravid dynasty believed it was not enough to urge his audiences to put aside their blood loyalties and ethnic differences, and embrace the equality of all Muslims under the Sacred Law, it was necessary to make them do so.

Almoravid dynasty spent at least several years capturing each fort and settlement in the region around Fez and in northern Morocco.

Almoravid dynasty was prevented from following up his victory by trouble in Africa, which he chose to settle in person.

Almoravid dynasty returned to Iberia in 1090, avowedly for the purpose of annexing the taifa principalities of Iberia.

Almoravid dynasty was supported by most of the Iberian people, who were discontented with the heavy taxation imposed upon them by their spendthrift rulers.

Almoravid dynasty died in 1106, when he was reputed to have reached the age of 100.

The Almoravid dynasty power was at its height at Yusuf's death: the Moorish empire then included all of Northwest Africa as far eastward as Algiers, and all of Iberia south of the Tagus and as far eastward as the mouth of the Ebro, and including the Balearic Islands.

Almoravid dynasty was defeated by the combined action of his Christian foes in Iberia and the agitation of the Almohads in Morocco.

Almoravid dynasty movement started as a conservative Islamic reform movement inspired by the Maliki school of jurisprudence.

However, monuments and textiles from Almeria from the late Almoravid dynasty period indicate that the empire had changed its attitude with time.

Many of the remaining fabrics from the Almoravid dynasty period were reused by Christians, with examples in the reliquary of San Isidoro in Leon, a chasuble from Saint-Sernin in Toulouse, the Chasuble of San Juan de Ortega in the church of Quintanaortuna, the shroud of San Pedro de Osma, and a fragment found at the church of Thuir in the eastern Pyrenees.

Almoravid dynasty Kufic is the variety of Maghrebi Kufic script that was used as an official display script during the Almoravid dynasty period.

The Almoravid dynasty Qubba is one of the few Almoravid dynasty monuments in Marrakesh surviving, and is notable for its highly ornate interior dome with carved stucco decoration, complex arch shapes, and minor muqarnas cupolas in the corners of the structure.

Almoravid dynasty movement has its intellectual origins in the writings and teachings of Abu Imran al-Fasi, who first inspired Yahya Ibn Ibrahim of the Godala tribe in Kairouan.

The political unification of Morocco and al-Andalus under the Almoravid dynasty rapidly accelerated the cultural interchange between the two continents, beginning when Yusuf ibn Tashfin sent al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad, former poet king of the Taifa of Seville, into exile in Tangier and ultimately Aghmat.