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Macrinus become Emperor in 217 and unfortunately had a very short reign. His goal seems to have been a return to Septimius Severus-era policies and he was left in a difficult situation due to Caracalla's reign. When one takes into account his humble origins, he comes across a compotent...

The Marinids were the last Berber dynasty to have a foothold in the Iberian Peninsula, a foothold that was lost after their defeat at the Battle of the Río Salado in 1340. They also unified the Maghreb under their rule, but said unification was short-lived. How successful could they be with a...

As someone who's recently been rather interested in the history of relations between Iberia and North Africa , I noticed that one rather common tendency was for a North African power to exert influence in Al-Andalus, whether they invaded or were invited. How sustainable could this union be? The...

what If the Umayyad won the Battle of the Nobles OTL first big battle and victory for the Berber in the Berber revolt who would result in the first independent Muslim (even if heritic ) state outside of the Calipahte and the the loss of western Maghreb . I chose it over Bagdoura because...

The Berber Revolt was a general rebellion of Berbers in the area of the Maghreb, Ifriqiya, and Al-Andalus around 739-743, during the reign of caliph Hisham. The ostensible cause was the cruelty and greed of one governor, Ubayd Allah ibn Habib, and his deputies, who set about with zeal to extract...

When and how can we insert a strong Berber cultural, political, and religious component into Al-Andalus, after its conquest by Islamic forces? Perhaps through a more successful spread of the Berber Revolt of the 740's into Iberia? What would be the effects of a less Arab, more Berber Al-Andalus...

So my Lion Haired Men TL has come to an end since it was badly planned and I simply didn't enjoy it. So I have decided to start work on a TL which I actually have passion in. For now, it is called, the Noble Men. Maybe somebody has a better title idea. In ~3,900 BC a boy never dies due to...

So, suppose that the Almohad Caliphate never manages to conquer North Africa out of the Atlas Mountains, maybe by being defeated by the Almoravids at Marrakech. What happens next? The Almoravids are still in decline by this period. How does the lack of the Almohads affect the Iberian reconquista?

With a POD no earlier than Constantine's conversion, how can the Romance and Greek languages be subsumed and replaced by other languages to the maximum extent possible? How can Roman titles and institutions, and architecture, be forgotten, replaced, or minimized? This should be mostly...

The Barghawata were a Berber religious group/tribal confederation that ruled the western coastline of Morocco for more than three centuries (Wikipedia). They practiced a peculiar Islam-influenced religion centered on the prophet Salih until 1149, when the last Barghawata rebellion was crushed by...