Almohads overthrow the Almoravids

1147

Abd al-Mumin's puritanical Berber movement, proclaiming the unity of God against what it called Almoravid laxness, completed its conquest of Morocco and prepared to cross into al-Andalus. Within a decade the Almohad caliphs would rule from the Atlantic to Libya. Their empire was the largest Berber state in North African history, governed by a cadre of theologians who fused tribal solidarity with a distinctive monotheist theology.