Almohad ExpansionMorocco / North Africa · 1120–1269“A thread from the great cord of two hundred and fifty. Hold it while I speak.”From the Atlas mountains came Ibn Tumart, declaring the Almoravids — yesterday's puritans — corrupt, and his Masmuda Berbers the instrument of correction. By 1147 his successor had taken Marrakesh and the corrected empire stretched further than the old: all the Maghreb to Tripoli, and al-Andalus beyond the strait.