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The founding of Marrakesh as the background of one of the best love stories I have ever read - the Moroccan empire series by Melissa Addey

Author Melissa Addey seems to emerge herself in a historic period and then produce a series of novels around one event but from different points of view and - quite impressive - still totally different and interesting. Of course one will more hit a cord with you than others. She did so with the Chinese conquest of the Uygur lands and now also with the Almoravid dynasty in Morocco.

The Almoravid dynasty (Arabic: المرابطون‎, Al-Murābiṭūn) was an imperial Berber Muslim dynasty centered in Morocco.It established an empire in the 11th century that stretched over the western Maghreb and Al-Andalus. Founded by Abdallah ibn Yasin, the Almoravid capital was Marrakesh, a city the ruling house founded in 1062. The dynasty originated among the Lamtuna and the Gudala, nomadic Berber tribes of the Sahara, traversing the territory between the Draa, the Niger, and the Senegal rivers.

Yusuf ibn Tashfin, also Tashafin, Teshufin, (Arabic: يوسف بن تاشفين ناصر الدين بن تالاكاكين الصنهاجي‎, romanized: Yūsuf ibn Tāshfīn Naṣr al-Dīn ibn Tālākakīn al-Ṣanhājī; reigned c. 1061 – 1106) was leader of the Berber Almoravid empire. He co-founded the city of Marrakesh and led the Muslim forces in the Battle of Sagrajas. Ibn Tashfin came to al-Andalus from Africa to help the Muslims fight against Alfonso VI, eventually achieving victory and promoting an Islamic system in the region. He was married to Zaynab an-Nafzawiyyah, whom he reportedly trusted politically. (Source: Wikiperdia)

Some of you might be familiar with the Christian hero El Cid. He and Yusuf ibn Tashfin were each other's opponents.

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