Almohade

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Almohade [ˈælməˌheɪd -ˌheɪdiː], Almohad [ˈælməˌhæd]

n pl -hades, -hads

(Non-Christian Religions / Islam) a member of a group of puritanical Muslims, originally Berbers, who arose in S Morocco in the 12th century as a reaction against the corrupt Almoravides and who ruled Spain and all Maghrib from about 1147 to after 1213

[from Arabic al-muwahhid]

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