But the Empire of Ghana was also under pressure from outside forces. There is an Arab tradition that the Almoravid Muslims came down from the North and invaded Ghana. Another interpretation is ...

a reference to the Almoravid empire that burst forth from the Sahara in the medieval period and eventually conquered much of north Africa and Spain. MUJAO split in 2015, with part of the group’s ...

As the Almoravid empire expanded into Al-Andalus, and as Muslim and Jewish families settled in North Africa after the ...