 The Almoravids bestowed their support on Avempace and other non religious scholars in spite of being very reverential to the Malikite jurists. Abu ‛Abd Allah Malik ibn Yahyà Ibn Wuhayb al-Azdi (1061–1130) (Dunlop 1955b) cultivated all sciences including philosophy but none of his works is extant. Nevertheless, the Amir al-Mu’minin ‛Ali ibn Yusuf Ibn Tashfin made him his vizier and his friend. Al-Maqqari informs us that ‛Ali called him from Seville to Marrakech and appointed him qadi of Marrakech. He ordered him to discuss religious matters with Ibn Tumart, the intellectual founder of the Almohad movement (Maqqari-N: vol. 3, pp. 479–480). Al-Maqqari says that Avempace supported him, but we do not know anything more about their relationship (Maqqari-N: 3: 434).