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The Almohads would adopt the white flag against Almoravid authority, [175] while major anti-Almohad rebellions unleashed by the Banu Ghaniya in the Maghreb and Hudids in Al-Andalus would confirm their affiliation to the Abbasids in the same manner as the early Almoravid movement did. [176] [177]
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This is supposedly a banner used by the Almoravid dynasty in Morocco (11th to 12th centuries). This claim is apparently due to an entry at the "Flags of the World" website: "The use of the flag in Morocco as a symbol of the state dates way back to the Almoravide dynasty (1062-1125 AD).
Nevertheless, the Almoravids and the Almohads did not help the taifa emirs but rather annexed their lands to their own North African empires. [11] In the 1100s, the remnants of the taifa dynasties in al-Andalus would join forces with Christian powers as a last attempt to shift momentum back in their favor against the Almoravids. [2]
Amira K. Bennison (2016) Almoravid and Almohad Empires, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 101 ISBN: 978-0-7486-4682-1. Pascal Buresi, Hicham El Aallaoui (2012) Governing the Empire Provincial Administration in the Almohad Caliphate (1224-1269) , BRILL, pp. 76 ISBN : 978-90-04-23333-1 .
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The Almoravids established themselves at Algeciras, and after allying with the taifas of Seville, Granada, and Almeria (al-Mu'tamid led the al-Andalusan forces) they defeated the Christians at the Battle of Sagrajas in 1086, and occupied the other Muslim taifas, including Seville itself in 1091.
[89] [90] These medieval Berber movements, the Almoravids and the Almohads, have been compared to the more recent Wahhabis, strict fundamentalists of Saudi Arabia. [91] The Almoravids [Arabic al-Murabitum, from Ribat, e.g., "defenders"] began as an Islamic movement of the Sanhaja Berbers, arising in the remote deserts of the southwest Maghrib.