Almoravid ExpansionMorocco / Mauritania · 1040–1147“Listen well: this telling travelled far to reach our circle.”It began with veiled men of the deep Sahara — Sanhaja camel-lords shamed by a reforming scholar into stricter faith — and within a generation the reform had become an empire: Marrakesh founded as its capital, Morocco taken, and the armies crossing the sea to save Muslim Spain at the bondholders' hour, then keeping it.