What is Almoravid dynasty?
{{Infobox Former Country |native_name = {{lang|ar|المرابطون}} |conventional_long_name = Almoravid Empire |common_name = Almoravids |continent=Africa |region = North Africa |status=Empire |year_start = 1040 |year_end = 1147 |p1 = Lamtuna |s1=Taifa of Mallorca |s2=Taifa of Almería |s3=Taifa of Badajoz |s4=Taifa of Beja and Évora |s5=Córdoban Republic |s6=Taifa of Guadix and Baza |s7=Almohad |s8=Taifa of Málaga |s9=Taifa of Silves |s10=Taifa of Niebla |s11=Purchena |s12=Banu Hilal |s13=Taifa of Murcia |s14=Aroudant |s15=Taifa of Valencia |image_flag = |image_map = Almoravid Empire.png |image_map_caption = Map showing the extent of the Almoravid empire |common_languages = [[Berber languages]] (predominant), [[Classical Arabic]], [[Mozarab]], [[Hebrew language]], [[African Romance]] & [[Andalusian Arabic]] |religion = [[Maliki]] [[Sunni Islam]] (predominant and official state religion), [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]], [[Ibadi]], [[Judaism]] & [[Sufism]] |capital = [[Aghmat]] (1040-1062), [[Marrakech]](1062-1147) & [[Córdoba, Spain|Córdoba]] |government_type = Caliphate |title_leader = [[Caliph]] |leader1 = [[Abdallah ibn Yasin]] |year_leader1 = 1040-1059 |leader2 = [[Ishaq ibn Ali]] |year_leader2 = 1146–1147 |stat_area1 = 3885000 |currency =[[Dinar]] & [[Maravedi]] }} The '''Almoravids''' were a [[Berbers|Berber]] [[Islam|Muslim]]<ref>Glick, Thomas F. ''Islamic And Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages''. (2005) Brill Academic Publishers page 37</ref> dynasty from [[Morocco]] that ruled over a wide area of [[North Africa|northwestern Africa]] and the [[Iberian Peninsula]] during the 11th century. Under this dynasty the [[Islam|Western Islamic]] empire included present-day [[Morocco]], [[Western Sahara]], [[Mauritania]], [[Gibraltar]], [[Tlemcen]] (in [[Algeria]]) and a great part of what is now [[Senegal]] and [[Mali]] in the south, and [[Spain]] and [[Portugal]] to the north in [[Europe]]. At its greatest extent, the empire stretched 3,000 kilometres from [[Zaragoza]] in the north to [[Senegal]]