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Founder of the movement
of Almoravides. (death in 1059).
Preacher of the Berber tribe of Sanhadja,
established in Adrar of Mauritania and converted with Islam
since the IXth century, this reformer rigorous founded about
1050 a ribat (strengthened monastery) in the island of Tidra,
in the south of Nouadhibou. It organized militarily its disciples,
indicated by name of Al-mourabitoun (i.e. "people of
the ribat", word whose transcription by Europeans gave
almoravides ) and launched them in a holy war against the inaccurate
ones.
Associated topics
These religious and puritan warriors, who spread the austere
rite malékite, soon reached Tafilalet (taken of Sijilmassa
about 1055), Under, the city of Aghmat, centers action of Masmouda,
and finally Tadla. After the death of ibn Yassine, killed in
a combat against Berber heretic Bargouata, in the valley of
the wadi Korifla, Almoravides, under
the control of its disciple Youssouf ibn Tachifine, after having
completed to subject the Berber tribes of the Sahara Western
and destroyed the empire of Ghana
(1076), launched out to the conquest of septentrional Morocco.
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