10 Facts About Marinid

Marinid Sultanate was a Berber Muslim empire from the mid-13th to the 15th century which controlled present-day Morocco and, intermittently, other parts of North Africa and of the southern Iberian Peninsula around Gibraltar.

Marinid was in turn overthrown in 1471 by Abu Abd Allah al-Sheikh Muhammad ibn Yahya, one of the two the surviving Wattasids from the 1459 massacre, who instigated the Wattasid dynasty.

Marinid sultan was the head of the state and wielded the title of amir al-muslimin .

Population under Marinid rule was mostly Berber and Arab, though there were contrasts between the main cities and the countryside as well as between sedentary and nomadic populations.

The last and largest Marinid madrasa in Fes, the Bou Inania, was a slightly more distinctive institution and was the only madrasa to have the status of a Friday mosque.

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Marinid art continued many of the artistic traditions previously established in the region under the Almoravids and Almohads.

Three of them were made from church bells which Marinid craftsmen used as a base onto which they grafted ornate copper fittings.

Not many Marinid textiles have survived, but it is assumed that luxurious silks continued to be made as in previous periods.

Minbars of the Marinid era were following in the same tradition as earlier Almoravid and Almohad wooden minbars.

Marinid dynasty was important in further refining the artistic legacy established under their Almoravid and Almohad predecessors.