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Marrakech Menara In 1147 the Almohads, proponents of orthodox Islam and tribal Masmouda from the High Atlas, took the city. The last Almoravids were killed except those who went into exile in the Balearic Islands (family Banu Ghania). As a result almost all the monuments were destroyed. The Almohads built many palaces and religious buildings, such as the famous Koutoubia mosque built on the ruins of a palace Almoravid, and twin sister of the Giralda in Seville and the Hassan Tower (unfinished) in Rabat. The Casbah housed the residence Caliphate (since the reign of Abd al-Mumin the ruler had the title of Almohad caliph, rivaling the far eastern caliphate of the Abbasids), decorated with a hospital that drew the Andalusian physician Ibn Tufayl. Majestic of all the Casbah mansourienne, named after the caliph Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur, are still the beautiful Bab Agnaw. Marrakech was so worthy to house the capital of the major power of the Muslim West Mediterranean at the time, the Almohad...

Marrakech Menara In 1147 the Almohads, proponents of orthodox Islam and tribal Masmouda from the High Atlas, took the city. The last Almoravids were killed except those who went into exile in the Balearic Islands (family Banu Ghania). As a result almost all the monuments were destroyed. The Almohads built many palaces and religious buildings, such as the famous Koutoubia mosque built on the ruins of a palace Almoravid, and twin sister of the Giralda in Seville and the Hassan Tower (unfinished) in Rabat. The Casbah housed the residence Caliphate (since the reign of Abd al-Mumin the ruler had the title of Almohad caliph, rivaling the far eastern caliphate of the Abbasids), decorated with a hospital that drew the Andalusian physician Ibn Tufayl. Majestic of all the Casbah mansourienne, named after the caliph Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur, are still the beautiful Bab Agnaw. Marrakech was so worthy to house the capital of the major power of the Muslim West Mediterranean at the time, the Almohad...