al-Murabitun

Northwest Africa and Spain. Capital: Marrakesh

The fragmentation of the Idrisid kingdom led to more than half a century of unrest and confusion in Morocco, without however undermining the economic prosperity of the country.
It was during this period that the Almoravids (al-Murabitun: the people of the fortresses) arrived. Members of the Lemtuna tribe, nomadic warriors and masters of the caravan routes of the South, the Almoravids were driven by reformist religious zeal and the search for fertile lands. They took Sijilmassa (AH 445 / AD 1054) and Taroudant (AH 448 / AD 1057) and set up Morocco's first Berber dynasty with a new capital at Marrakesh, which they founded in AH 453 / AD 1062 before taking Fez in AH 455 / AD 1064. Having unified Morocco, they annexed the Saharan territories as far as the Senegal River and al-Andalus, of which they made Seville the capital.
Initially impervious to Andalusian civilisation, completely different from their simple trce was initially intellectual (poetry and science), and then spread to Almoravid buildings through the architecturaditions, the Almoravids ended up absorbed in this culture of splendour and sophistication. The Andalusian influence of Córdoba and Seville (Qarawiyyin, mosques of Tlemcen and Algiers).