Murabets and Their Civilization and Intellectual Impact in Andalus (479 – 552)

Abstract

The Morabet state was one of the states that has left an imprint as far as history is concerned in a great and effective way. It was preceded by an age of weakness as a result of the division of the region into emirates struggling among themselves to be reflected in all the runs of life. The most important achievement of the Moravirds on the political level that they unified the land under one central strong government. That had a great impact on the Crusade creeping on the Islamic Andlusia.

            It has become clear that the basis of the formation of the state was religious built on the idea of religious reform and associated tightly with the Malikite doctrine. The administration of the state depended on the addition of the sharia touch through a class of jurists (fuqhaa) who were first in the façade of the authorities in the Maghreb and Andlus. That domination of the jurists has become the weakness point for the state towards the people after the political and administrative coalition between the authority and the men of the state formed an interest material,  that lasted the effect of clergymen of religion to the end of the Moravid state.

            Concerning the intellectual and cultural life of the Moravid state, it was in high level of activity that it has arrived to the highest activities In the age of Ali ben Yousef ben Tashfeen who cared for men of letters, scientists and the jurists. He allowed them, and conceded to them, so that they began to have a strong opinion.

At the end I will summarize the findings:

• The Moravid state was not one of the cultural and intellectual decline in Al-Andlus as some contemporary scholars depicted them, but through examples we proved that they caredfor sciences, jurisdiction, literature and other knowledge.
• The Moravids confronted the crusade tide and remained in Al-Andlus long time after falling.
• The Moravid worked very strongly to the flourishing of the aspects of life in Al-maghreb states.