Dār al-Murābiṭīn

religious site, Sūs, Morocco

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In North Africa: The Maghrib under the Almoravids and the Almohads
…a centre of religious learning, Dār al-Murābiṭīn, in Sūs (southern Morocco), then headed by a scholar who had studied previously in Kairouan. Two theories have been proposed to explain the name al-Murābiṭūn (i.e., Almoravids), meaning inmates of a ribāṭ (fortified monastery), a term by which Ibn Yāsīn’s followers were known.…
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