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200 to 300 ad.
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mid 11th century to mid 13th century. The Saharan Sanhaja became Muslim sometime during the tenth century. They became Almoravids when one of their tribal chiefs returned home from pilgrimage to Mecca and brought a fiery preacher to teach them. city of Marrakech created in 1070-1071
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1070-1071
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The Almohads rejected Maliki jurisprudence
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Under the Almohad dynasty (1147-1269), Marrakesh witnessed further expansion. mid 12th century: almohad conquest of almoravids until mid 13th century also (world history encyclopedia). 12th century CE The Almohads, a Berber mountain people, develop a fundamentalist Islamic doctrine and build an empire that spreads from Spain to western Libya. They expel Jews from Marrakesh and try to eliminate their presence from Morocco (world history encyclopedia).
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(world history encyclopedia)
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p. 27 of Maddy-Weitzman's The Berber Identity Movement and the Challenge to North African States
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Hafisd Dynasty ruled in Ifriqiya while Merinid BerberDynasty ruled in Fez. p. 30 Maddy-Weitzman's The Berber Identity Movement and the Challenge to North African States
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13th century CE The Merenids give preferential treatment to the Jews. Resentment of the sultan and his close ties to the Jews incites a pogrom in Fez in 1276(Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora).
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The Merenids force the Jews to move into a mellah, a fortified area adjoining the royal palace of Fez, to ensure their safety. (Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora)
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1472 The Wattasids neither encourage nor prevent tens of thousands of Jewish refugees from Spain and Portugal from entering Morocco in the late 15th and early 16th centuries (Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora).
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p.34 of Maddy-Weitzmann
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source p.34 of Maddy-Weitzmann
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Berber units brought from North Africa to defend Granada. p. 29 Maddy-Weitzman's The Berber Identity Movement and the Challenge to North African States
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An eighteenth-century Alawi sultan, Mawlay Yazid, had a short but bloody rule, marked by the ruthless persecution of Jews who had sided with his adversaries.
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586 bc (Maddy-Weitzman)
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Revolt lasted from 739 to 742 AD in Tangier. It was led by Maysar al-Mathaghri. Source Maddy-Weitzman's Berber IdentityMovement. p. 24. and Brett's Islamization of Egypt and North Africa p. 22.
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ethnic tensions in Andalusia in 10th and 11th centuries between Berbers (both old and new) and Arabs. source: Shatzmiller's The BEbers and the Islamic State p. 21-22.