- The
Masmuda (Arabic: المصمودة, romanized:
Maṣmūda, Berber: ⵉⵎⵙⵎⵓⴷⵏ) is a
Berber tribal confederation of
Morocco and one of the
largest in the Maghreb...
- They are
traditionally divided into
three large tribal confederations:
Masmuda,
Zenata and Sanhaja. They
often form
smaller confederations of
tribes together...
- the
Almohad movement, a
puritanical reform movement launched among the
Masmuda Berbers of the
Atlas Mountains. Ibn
Tumart launched an open
revolt against...
- Maghreb). The
Almohad movement was
founded by Ibn
Tumart among the
Berber Masmuda tribes, but the
Almohad caliphate and its
ruling dynasty,
known as the...
-
historically one of the
largest Berber confederations along with the
Sanhaja and
Masmuda.
Their lifestyle was
either nomadic or semi-nomadic. The 14th-century historiographer...
- of the
largest Berber tribal confederations,
along with the
Zanata and
Masmuda confederations. Many
tribes in Algeria, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco...
- Tetouan. Originally,
Ghomaras were a
Berber tribal group belonging to the
Masmuda confederacy.
While most have
shifted to
speaking Arabic, a
minority continue...
-
contained several fully independent tribes (e.g., Sanhaja, Houaras, Zenata,
Masmuda, Kutama, Awraba, Barghawata, etc.).[full
citation needed] The Mauro-Roman...
- the loss of
Zaragoza in 1118. The
final cause of
their downfall was the
Masmuda-led
Almohad rebellion initiated in the
Maghreb by Ibn
Tumart in the 1120s...
- of
Berber dynasties arose.
Under the
Sanhaja Almoravid dynasty and the
Masmuda Almohad dynasty,
Morocco dominated the Maghreb, al-Andalus in Iberia, and...
