Marinid Sultanate

The Marinid dynasty (Arabic: المرينيون, romanized: al-Marīniyyūn) was a Sunni Muslim dynasty that controlled present-day Morocco from the mid-13th to the 15th century and intermittently controlled other parts of North Africa (Algeria and Tunisia) and of the southern Iberian Peninsula (Spain) around Gibraltar. They were a culturally Arabized dynasty of Berber origin. The dynasty takes its name from the Banu Marin (Arabic: بنو مرين; Berber languages: Ayt Mrin), the Zenata Berber tribe from which it originated. After being at their service for a brief period, the Marinids waged war during the 13th century to overthrow the Almohads, who ruled the western Maghreb, eventually succeeding in 1269 with the capture of Marrakesh. At the height of their power in the mid-14th.