Marinid Sultanate

The Marinid Sultanate was the Berber Zenata realm that ruled Morocco and much of the Maghreb from the mid-thirteenth to the fifteenth century. Sprung from the Banu Marin tribe, the Marinids served the Almohads briefly, then spent the thirteenth century tearing down the Almohads, who ruled the western Maghreb, finishing the work with Marrakesh in 1269 and Fez their new seat and golden age, who made Maliki Sunnism the official religion. At their mid-fourteenth-century height under Abu al-Hasan and his son Abu Inan they held most of the Maghreb with pieces of Algeria, Tunisia and Gibraltar, and ferried arms and men to the Emirate of Granada across the straits, until Salado in 1340 and Algeciras in 1344 ended the Spanish adventure for good. Arabized in culture though Berber in blood, the Marinids faded before their Wattasid regents, until a Fez revolt killed Abd al-Haqq II in 1465 and direct Wattasid rule began.