Extreme Maghreb

Extreme Maghreb, in arabic : المغرب الأقصى, al-Maġrib al-aqṣā^[1] , is the westernmost part of the medieval classical Maghreb, it corresponds for a large part to present-day Morocco. In historiography we also speak of Occidental Berberia.^[2]^[3]^[4] It is born in the North by the Mediterranean Sea, in the East by the Moulouya river and its valley, in the South by the High Atlas and in the West by the Atlantic Ocean.^[5]

The Extreme Maghreb has several local powers such as the Barghawata and several dynasties including the Idrissids, the Almoravids, the , the Merinids, the Wattassids, the Saadians and then the Alawites.^[6]

The Central Maghreb (Maghreb al-Awsat) and Extreme Maghreb (Maghreb al-Aqsa) in the Tabula Rogeriana of Al Idrissi (12th century).
Map of the tripartition of the Maghreb in medieval times, Extreme Maghreb is designated here under the name of Maghrib al-Aqsa.

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References

^ Fierro, Maribel (2010-11-04). The New Cambridge History of Islam: Volume 2, The Western Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-316-18433-2.
^ Meri, Josef W. (2006). Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-415-96690-0.
^ al-Fāsī, ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Abī Zarʻ (2009). Histoire des souverains de la berbérie occidentale, 171-726 H/788-1326 J.C.: le Kitâb Rawḍ al-Qirtâs (in French). Alger-Livres Éditions. ISBN 978-9947-897-01-0.
^ Congress, Union européenne des arabisants et islamisants (1978). La signification du Bas Moyen Age dans l'histoire et la culture du monde musulman: actes du 8me Congrès de l'Union européenne des arabisants et islamisants, [Aix-en-Provence, du 9 au 14 septembre 1976] (in French). Edisud. ISBN 978-2-85744-043-7.
^ Désiré-Vuillemin, Geneviève (1964-01-01). Le monde libyco-berbère dans l'Antiquité (in French). FeniXX. p. 8. ISBN 978-2-307-37825-9.
^ Buresi, Pascal; Ghouirgate, Mehdi (2021-01-06). Histoire du Maghreb médiéval - XIe-XVe siècle (in French). Armand Colin. ISBN 978-2-200-63108-6.

[1] Fierro, Maribel (2010-11-04). The New Cambridge History of Islam: Volume 2, The Western Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-316-18433-2.

[2] Meri, Josef W. (2006). Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-415-96690-0.

[3] -Fāsī, ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Abī Zarʻ (2009). Histoire des souverains de la berbérie occidentale, 171-726 H/788-1326 J.C.: le Kitâb Rawḍ al-Qirtâs (in French). Alger-Livres Éditions. ISBN 978-9947-897-01-0.

[4] Congress, Union européenne des arabisants et islamisants (1978). La signification du Bas Moyen Age dans l'histoire et la culture du monde musulman: actes du 8me Congrès de l'Union européenne des arabisants et islamisants, [Aix-en-Provence, du 9 au 14 septembre 1976] (in French). Edisud. ISBN 978-2-85744-043-7.

[5] Désiré-Vuillemin, Geneviève (1964-01-01). Le monde libyco-berbère dans l'Antiquité (in French). FeniXX. p. 8. ISBN 978-2-307-37825-9.

[6] Buresi, Pascal; Ghouirgate, Mehdi (2021-01-06). Histoire du Maghreb médiéval - XIe-XVe siècle (in French). Armand Colin. ISBN 978-2-200-63108-6.

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