Marinid Sultanate

Muslim Berber dynasty (1244–1465)

The Marinid Sultanate was a Berber empire from the mid-13th to the 15th century in modern Morocco and other parts of North Africa. It was named after the Banu Marin (Arabic: بنو مرين, Berber: Ayt Mrin[4]), a Zenata Berber tribe.[1][5] The sultanate was ruled by the Marinid dynasty (Arabic: المرينيون al-marīniyyūn), founded by Abd al-Haqq I.[1][6]

Marinid Sultanate
المرينيون al-marīniyyūn (ar)
1244–1465
Emblem of Marinids
Emblem
The Marinid Sultanate in 1360
The Marinid Sultanate in 1360
StatusRuling dynasty of Morocco[1][2]
CapitalFes
Official languagesArabic[3]
Common languagesMaghrebi Arabic, Berber languages
Religion
Sunni Islam
GovernmentSultanate
Sultan 
• 1215–1217
Abd al-Haqq I
• 1420–1465
Abd al-Haqq II
History 
• Established
1244
• Disestablished
1465
CurrencyDinar
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Almohad Caliphate
Wattasid dynasty

References change

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  2. "Marinides ou Mérinides ; Dynastie marocaine (1269-1465) - Encyclopédie Larousse en ligne". Larousse.fr. Retrieved 2016-06-05.
  3. The Cambridge History of Africa: From c. 500 B.C. to A.D. 1050. Cambridge University Press. 1975. ISBN 9780521209816. Retrieved 2021-07-28.
  4. Khaneboubi, A. (2010-12-30). "Mérinides (Berb. : Ayt Mrin)". Encyclopédie berbère (in French) (31): 4889–4895. doi:10.4000/encyclopedieberbere.568. ISSN 1015-7344.
  5. Abun-Nasr, Jamil (1987). A history of the Maghrib in the Islamic period. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 103–118. ISBN 0521337674.
  6. C.E. Bosworth, The New Islamic Dynasties, (Columbia University Press, 1996), 41-42.