![]() The Almoravids fell-at the height of their power-when they failed to stop the Masmuda-led rebellion initiated by Ibn Tumart. However, the rule of the dynasty was relatively short-lived. Their rulers never claimed the title of caliph and instead took on the title of Amir al-Muslimīn ("Prince of the Muslims") while formally acknowledging the overlordship of the Abbasid Caliphs in Baghdad. ![]() This enabled them to control an empire that stretched 3,000 kilometers (1,900 mi) north to south. The Almoravids were crucial in preventing the fall of Al-Andalus to the Iberian Christian kingdoms, when they decisively defeated a coalition of the Castilian and Aragonese armies at the Battle of Sagrajas in 1086. The dynasty originated among the Lamtuna and the Gudala, nomadic Berber tribes of the Western Sahara, traversing the territory between the Draa, the Niger, and the Senegal rivers. ![]() Founded by Abu Bakr ibn Umar, the Almoravid capital was Marrakesh, a city the ruling house founded circa 1070. It established an empire in the 11th century that stretched over the western Maghreb and Al-Andalus. ![]() The Almoravid dynasty ( Arabic: المرابطون, romanized: Al-Murābiṭūn, lit.'those from the ribats' ) was an imperial Berber Muslim dynasty centered in Morocco. ![]()
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