Editing Almoravid dynasty (section)

==== Minbars ====
[[File:المنبر المرابطي 21 44 14 447000.jpeg|thumb|Detail of the [[Minbar of the Kutubiyya Mosque|Almoravid minbar]], commissioned by [[Ali ibn Yusuf|Ali Bin Yusuf Bin Tashfin al-Murabiti]] 1137 for his great mosque in Marrakesh.]]
The Almoravid minbars—such as the [[Minbar of the Kutubiyya Mosque|minbar of the Grand Mosque of Marrakesh]] commissioned by Sultan [[Ali ibn Yusuf]] (1137), or the minbar for the [[University of al-Qarawiyyin]] (1144)<ref name=":04">{{Cite book|last1=Bloom|first1=Jonathan|title=The Minbar from the Kutubiyya Mosque|last2=Toufiq|first2=Ahmed|last3=Carboni|first3=Stefano|last4=Soultanian|first4=Jack|last5=Wilmering|first5=Antoine M.|last6=Minor|first6=Mark D.|last7=Zawacki|first7=Andrew|last8=Hbibi|first8=El Mostafa|publisher=The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Ediciones El Viso, S.A., Madrid; Ministère des Affaires Culturelles, Royaume du Maroc|year=1998}}</ref><ref name=":13" />—expressed the Almoravids' [[Maliki]] legitimacy, their "inheritance of the Umayyad imperial role", and the extension of that imperial power into the Maghreb.{{Sfn|Bennison|2016|pp=|p=302}} Both minbars are exceptional works of marquetry and woodcarving, decorated with geometric compositions, inlaid materials, and [[arabesque]] reliefs.<ref name=":04" /><ref name=":03">{{Cite book|last=Terrasse|first=Henri|title=La Mosquée al-Qaraouiyin à Fès; avec une étude de Gaston Deverdun sur les inscriptions historiques de la mosquée|publisher=Librairie C. Klincksieck|year=1968|location=Paris}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Qantara – the minbar of the al-Qarawīyīn Mosque|url=https://www.qantara-med.org/public/show_document.php?do_id=309&lang=en|access-date=2021-02-21|website=www.qantara-med.org}}</ref>