Abu Bakr, in order to ensure the …
Years: 1057 - 1057
Abu Bakr, in order to ensure the Almoravids do not lose Sijilmassa again, launches a campaign to secure the roads and valleys of southern Morocco.
He immediately captures the Draa valley, then moves along the Wadi Nul (along the edge of the Anti-Atlas, picking up the adherence of the Sanhaja tribes of the Lamta and the Gazzula (Jazzula) to the Almoravid movement.
Abu Bakr leads the conquest of the Sous valley of southern Morocco, seizing the local capital of Taroudant in 1057.
Locations
People
- Abdallah Ibn Yasin
- Abu Bakr ibn Umar
- Al-Mu'izz ibn Badis
- Al-Mustansir Billah
- Yahya ibn Umar al-Lamtuni
Groups
- Berber people (also called Amazigh people or Imazighen, "free men", singular Amazigh)
- Sanhaja (Berber tribal confederacy)
- Maghrawa (Zenata Berber tribe)
- Masmuda (Berber tribal confederacy)
- Islam
- Muslims, Sunni
- Banu Hilal
- Banu Sulaym
- Muslims, Shi'a
- Zenata (Berber tribal confederacy)
- Ghana (Wagadou) Empire
- Ismailism
- Fatimid Caliphate
- Ifriqiyah, Zirid Dynasty of
- Hammadid dynasty
- Almoravid dynasty
