Almoravid
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Almoravid
< Spanish < Arabic al-murābit literally, the occupant of a fortified convent
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Their mounted armies encountered difficulties fighting and maneuvering in the heights of the Atlas Mountains, so the Masmuda nomads who lived there largely escaped Almoravid control.
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At about the same time, a militant Islamic Almoravid movement emerged among the Sanhaja people of the southern Sahara, who soon established an empire centered on Morocco.
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By the middle of the twelfth century, the religious enthusiasm of the early Almoravid conquests had largely died down.
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The earliest was the Almoravid state, which arose in the eleventh century.
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It was no longer the glorious city of the days before the Almoravid conquest.
From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik
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