MARINID DYNASTY
MERÎNÎLER DEVLETİ

Author : İsmail CERAN
Number of pages : 223-268

Abstract

Marinids (Banu Marin), a Berber dynasty of Zenâta group, which ruled the western Maghreb (Morocco) from the middle of the 13th century to the middle of the 15th century. The Marinids captured Meknès in 1244, Fas in 1248, Sidjilmasa in 1255 and finally Marrakesch, the capital in 1269, and briefly controlled all the Maghreb. The Marinids declared jihad on the Christians and they supported the Kingdom of Granada in Al-Andalus in the 13th and 14th centuries. The high point of Marinid history was reached under the sultan Abu’l-Hasan (1331–1348) with the seizure of Tlemcen (the dynasty of the Abdalwadids) and of Tunis (the dynasty of the Hafsid) and thy temporary subjection of the entire Maghreb. Following the seizure of Marrakecsh, the history of the Marinids is

Keywords

Marin

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