NOUN
- a member of a Muslim dynasty of Berber warriors that flourished from 1049 to 1145 and that established political dominance over northwestern Africa and Spain
How To Use Almoravid In A Sentence
- But others, founding their assertions upon more plausible reasoning, say that the petty Mussulman kings, who were the neighbours or tributaries of Benabad, justly alarmed at his alliance with a {93} Christian king, solicited the support of the Almoravide. History of the Moors of Spain
- In 1093 the Moors of the Almoravide dynasty, under the Caliph Yusuf, swept irresistibly upwards into the Iberian Peninsula, recapturing The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series
- [4] The Almoravide and Almohade princes, who ruled both in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844
- Benabad, Joseph took Cordova, besieged Seville, and was preparing for the assault of that city, when the virtuous Benabad, sacrificing his crown and even his liberty to save his subjects from the horrors that threatened them, delivered himself up, together with his family of a hundred children, to the disposal of the Almoravide. History of the Moors of Spain
- Almoravide leader in Spain, Yusuf ibn Tashifin, is said to have reached Mystics and Saints of Islam
- The Almoravids attempted to bring Africa back to orthodox Islamic practice.