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The Kutubiyya mosque at Marrakesh

جامع الكتبية بمراكش

c. 1158 CE · 553 AH – c. 1158 CE · c. 553 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Marrakesh

The Almohad caliph Abd al-Mu'min built the Kutubiyya mosque at Marrakesh about 553/1158 — its minaret the grandest of the Islamic West 1.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Maghreb
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1140115011601170 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

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Marrakesh

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People and things also explored

Almohad conquest of Marrakesh· Yusuf ibn Tashfin founds Marrakesh· Ibn Rushd becomes the caliph's physician (1182)· Abd al-Wahid b. Idris al-Muwahhidi· Abd al-Wahid II al-Ma'mun, Almohad· ابن بقي الظاهري قاضي مراكش· Ibn Qatral· ابن رشد الحفيد

Sources

  1. Kitab al-Ibar of Ibn Khaldun
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Almohad conquest of Marrakesh

Draft card for the Almohad conquest of Marrakesh in 1146–47, the Almoravid capital's fall to Abd al-Mu'min; its sources are not yet checked on the page.