From Ribāṭ to Empire — The Almoravids and the Counter-Fatimid Project

How does a weakened caliph in Baghdad reshape the religious geography of the far Maghrib? Through networks — from al-Bāqillānī to Abū ʿImrān al-Fāsī to Waggāg ibn Zallū to Ibn Yāsīn. The Almoravids were the western execution of an eastern strategy, and their structures outlasted every dynasty that replaced them.