Jun 27, 2018 · Almoravids (Arab., al-murābiṭūn, ‘those who espouse defence’). Spanish name of a Muslim dynasty in N. Africa and Spain, 1056–1147 (AH 448–541). Initially it was a rigorist revival movement in Sudan under ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yāsīn. Invited into Spain, the Almoravids defeated Alfonso VI at Sagrajas in 1086 (AH 479)—thereby initiating among Christians a determination …

Abdullah ibn YasinThe North African religious leader Abdullah ibn Yasin (died 1059) was the founder and spiritual leader of the Moslem Almoravid movement. Source for information on Abdullah ibn Yasin: Encyclopedia of World Biography dictionary.

MORAVIDS This movement, which was to make Muslims in the Sahara and Spain more conscious of the distinctiveness of their religion, and which began a tradition of the Muslim scholar as militant reformer. The Moravid movement had its origins in the western Sahara in the 1030s when several tribes of camel breeding Sanhaja nomads broke their return journey from the …

May 23, 2018 · ALMOHADS ALMOHADS (Arab. Al-Muwaḥḥhidūn; "Those who Advocate the Unity of Allah"), Moroccan Berbers from Tinmel in the Atlas Mountains. Like their predecessors, the *Almoravids (al-Murabitūn), who ruled major areas of the Maghreb and Muslim Spain, the Almohads comprised a confederation of local Berber tribes. The Almohads were influenced by …

May 21, 2018 · Yusuf ibn Tashufin >Yusuf ibn Tashufin (died 1106) was a North African Almoravid ruler and >conqueror who created the first Berber Empire uniting North Africa and >Spain.

Abu Bakr Ibn Umar Circa 1025-1087 Almoravid leader Source Invader of Ghana. Abu Bakr was governor of Wadi Da’ra and the brother of Yahya ibn Umar, military com Mander of the Almoravids, who seized the oasis of Audaghost from the Empire of Ghana in 1054. After his brother’s death in 1059, Abu Bakr became the primary com Mander of the army, invading and …

MURABITUN ("Vigilants," in Arabic) The origin of this word goes back to the fifteenth century, to the epoch of the Almoravids, Spanish descendents of a nomadic Saharan tribe, who, in the name of a renewed and purified Islam, undertook to drive heretics from North Africa and Spain. The founder of this movement, Abdallah ibn Yassin, professed the rules of his order in a military …

May 18, 2018 · Marrakech (Marrakesh) City in w central Morocco, at the nw foot of the Atlas Mountains. Founded in 1062 by the Almoravids, it was Morocco's capital until 1147 and subsequently served as the sultan's residence. Industries: tourism, leather …

Empire of Ghana Type of Government The Empire of Ghana was the earliest of three major West African Sudanese empires active in sub-Saharan Africa in medieval times. The Empire of Ghana organized scattered people and territories into a confederation of kingdoms that was led by a warrior tribe and a dominant royal clan. At the height of its power in the eleventh century, the …

Mansa Musa Makes His Hajj, Displaying Mali's Wealth in Gold and Becoming the First Sub-Saharan African Widely Known among EuropeansOverviewThough the modern nation of Mali is a landlocked country that, like much of Africa, suffers under extreme poverty, the medieval empire of Mali was quite a different place. Not only was its location along the Atlantic coast to the …