The Islamic West

The Maghreb and al-Andalus — the provinces that left the caliphate earliest and stayed gone, and the Berber empires that later ruled both shores of the strait.

The line below is a time axis. Position on it is date, so concurrency is visible: concurrent polities sit side by side rather than in sequence.

10 sourced edges run between this region and another, to Abbasid Caliphate, Fatimid Caliphate, Ottoman Empire, Kingdom of Sicily, Umayyad Caliphate of Cordoba and Songhai Empire. Those are not drawn on this line — a thread that crossed regions would assert a sequence nobody cited — but they are on each polity’s own page.

8009001000110012001300140015001600Midrarid Emirate of Sijilmasa 757–772 to 976Rustamid Imamate 776 – 909Idrisid Dynasty 788 – 974Aghlabid Emirate 800 – 909Zirid Dynasty 972 – 1148Taifa of Seville 1023 – 1091Almoravid Empire 1040 – 1147Almohad Caliphate 1121 – 1269Hafsid Sultanate 1229 – 1574Emirate of Granada 1232–1238 to 1492Zayyanid Kingdom of Tlemcen 1235 to 1551–1556Marinid Sultanate 1244–1269 to 1465Wattasid Dynasty 1420–1472 to 1554Saadi Sultanate 1510–1554 to 16591055 Almoravid Empire absorbed remnants of Midrarid Emirate of Sijilmasa1091 Taifa of Seville conquered by Almoravid Empire1147 Almohad Caliphate overthrew Almoravid Empire1160 Almohad Caliphate absorbed remnants of Zirid Dynasty1229 Hafsid Sultanate seceded from Almohad Caliphate1232 Emirate of Granada seceded from Almohad Caliphate1235 Zayyanid Kingdom of Tlemcen seceded from Almohad Caliphate1269 Marinid Sultanate overthrew Almohad Caliphate1472 Wattasid Dynasty overthrew Marinid Sultanate1554 Saadi Sultanate overthrew Wattasid Dynasty