We also live with the knowledge of older events: of the Almohads forcing conversion at the point of the sword in the days of ...

The Imazighen, also known as Amazighen, are the indigenous peoples of North Africa. A majority of the world may know them as the "Moors" or "Berber," a term coined by the Romans and popularized by the ...

Almoravids were overtaken by the Almohads in the 13th century. They in turn collapsed into three states by the 15th century. By this time Islam's hold over the Mediterranean was giving way to the ...

The cathedral and the Alcázar – dating from the Reconquest of 1248 to the 16th century and imbued with Moorish influences – are an exceptional testimony to the civilization of the Almohads as well as ...

Yet even Marrakech’s sturdy walls and its location on the plain did not prevent the Almohads, another group of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains, from attacking Marrakech in 1147. This brought an ...

Under the Almohads and the Hafsids, from the 12th to the 16th century, Tunis was considered one of the greatest and wealthiest cities in the Islamic world. Some 700 monuments, including palaces, ...

And as the Christians preached the Crusades, and the Almohads who moved into Spain from North Africa, preached the Jihad, there was an increasing aggressiveness on both sides." Against this ...