Almohad Caliphate conquers Tunis

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Abd al-Mu'min's Almohad armies swept eastward across the Maghreb and captured Tunis from its enfeebled Zirid rulers, completing a decade-long campaign that unified all of North Africa under a single Berber caliphate for the first time since the earliest Fatimids. From the Atlantic coast of Morocco to the Gulf of Sirte in Libya, one puritanical Almohad theology now governed every mosque.