| The Almoravids bestowed their support on Avempace and other non religious scholars in spite of being very reverential to the Malikite jurists. |
| A second version states that the treasure was sent from Orán by the Caliph Texufín Ben Alí, king of the Almoravids, who arrived on the coast, fleeing from an uprising in which he surely would have perished. |
| We heard stories about the battles between the Berbers and the Almoravids. |
| The Almoravids, and the Almohads after them, also occupied parts of the southern half of the Iberian Peninsula. |
| The twelfth century was marked by instability, due to continued fighting between the Almoravids and Almohad control in the region. |
| Alfonso's more aggressive policy towards the taifas worried the rulers of those kingdoms, who called on the African Almoravids for help. |
