Fragmentation of the Almohad Empire

Timeline

1. 1212–1220Marrakesh · MoroccoAfter the Almohad army's disastrous defeat at Las Navas in southern Iberia, caliphal authority wavered and North African governors and tribal leaders grew restive. Frequent internal strife at the Marrakesh court sharply reduced control over Iberia and the remote Maghreb.
2. 1220–1225Cities of the Maghreb · MaghrebIn Morocco the Marinid tribe expanded its power, the Hafsid dynasty in Tunisia reasserted autonomy, and independent emirates formed at Tlemcen and elsewhere. By around 1225 the nominal Almohad empire had split into competing local polities warring with one another.
3. 1223–1225al-Andalus · al-AndalusThe Muslim city-states of southern Iberia no longer obeyed Marrakesh's central commands; local emirs negotiated peace or resisted Christian attacks on their own. The empire's fragmentation deprived al-Andalus of unified command, enabling powers like Castile and Aragon to defeat them piecemeal, and heralded the imminent independence of Granada's Nasrid polity.