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Prehistory (c. 3000 –500 )
The rise of agrarian-based citied societies
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Trans-Saharan Islam
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The Almohad dynasty

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Migration and renewal (1041–1405) > Berbers > The Almohad dynasty

By 1147, 17 years after Ibn Tumart's death, Almohads had replaced Almoravids in all their Maghribi and Andalusian territories. In Andalusia their arrival slowed the progress of the Christian Reconquista. There, as in the Maghrib, arts and letters were encouraged: an example is an important movement of falsafah that included Ibn Tufayl, Ibn al-'Arabi, and Ibn Rushd (Latin Averro…

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