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| | Almoravides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | They had been converted to Islam in the early times of the Arab conquest, but their knowledge of Islam did not go much beyond the formula of the creed---"there is no god but God, and Muhammad is the apostle of God,"--and they were ignorant of the traditions of Hadith, or Islamic law. |
 | | By the good offices of the theologians of Kairawan, one of whom was from Fez, Yahya was provided with a missionary, 'Abd-Allah ibn Yazin, a zealous partisan of the Malikis, one of the four Madhhab, orthodox sects of Islam. |
 | | Ibn Tashfin, who was largely guided by Zainab, had in the meantime brought what is now known as Morocco to complete subjection, and in 1062 had founded the city of Marrakech ("Morocco City"). |
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