Editing History of Morocco (section)

===Decline===
After the death of Abu Inan Faris in 1358, the real power lay with the viziers, while the Marinid sultans were paraded and forced to succeed each other in quick succession. The county was divided and political anarchy set in, with different viziers and foreign powers supporting different factions. In 1359 [[Hintata]] tribesmen from the High Atlas came down and occupied [[Marrakesh]], capital of their Almohad ancestors, which they would govern independently until 1526. To the south of Marrakesh, Sufi mystics claimed autonomy, and in the 1370s [[Azemmour]] broke off under a coalition of merchants and Arab clan leaders of the Banu Sabih. To the east, the Zianid and Hafsid families reemerged and to the north, the Europeans were taking advantage of this instability by attacking the coast. Meanwhile, unruly wandering Arab [[Bedouin]] tribes increasingly spread anarchy, which accelerated the decline of the empire.
[[File:Portuguese Morocco.PNG|thumb|250px|[[Morocco-Portugal relations|Portuguese possessions in Morocco]] (1415–1769)]]
In the 15th century, it was hit by a financial crisis, after which the state had to stop financing the different marabouts and Sharifian families, which had previously been useful instruments in controlling different tribes. The political support of these marabouts and Sharifians halted, and it splintered into different entities. In 1399 Tetouan was taken and its population was massacred and in 1415 the [[Conquest of Ceuta|Portuguese captured Ceuta]]. After the sultan Abdalhaqq II (1421–1465) tried to break the power of the Wattasids, he was executed.

Marinid rulers after 1420 came under the control of the [[Wattasid]]s, who exercised a regency as [[Abd al-Haqq II]] became Sultan one year after his birth. The Wattasids however refused to give up the Regency after Abd al-Haqq came to age.<ref>Julien, Charles-André, ''Histoire de l'Afrique du Nord, des origines à 1830'', Payot 1931, p.196</ref>

In 1459, Abd al-Haqq II managed a massacre of the Wattasid family, breaking their power. His reign, however, brutally ended as he was murdered during the [[1465 Moroccan revolt|1465 revolt]].<ref>C.E. Bosworth, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=2O_BQs6Sro0C&pg=PA41 The New Islamic dynasties]'', p.42 Edinburgh University Press 1996. {{ISBN|978-0-231-10714-3}}.</ref> This event saw the end of the Marinid dynasty as [[Muhammad ibn Ali Amrani-Joutey]], leader of the [[Sharif]]s, was proclaimed Sultan in [[Fes]]. He was in turn overthrown in 1471 by [[Abu Abd Allah al-Sheikh Muhammad ibn Yahya]], one of the two the surviving [[Wattasids]] from the 1459 massacre, who instigated the [[Wattasid dynasty]].