Marinid Rule in the Maghreb (1270s)

Timeline

1. 1271–1274Marrakesh · MoroccoMarinid Sultan Abu Yusuf Yaqub continued campaigning against Almohad remnants and local separatist forces, gradually controlling the routes of southern and central Morocco and clearing political obstacles for establishing the capital at Fez.
2. 1276Fez · MoroccoIn 1276 Abu Yusuf Yaqub led his army to capture Fez, establishing it as the Marinid capital, and subsequently built grand structures such as the Great Mosque of Fez, restoring Fez as the Maghreb's center of Islamic scholarship and administration.
3. 1277–1280Fez · MoroccoThe Marinids built madrasas (religious colleges) in Fez and elsewhere, attracting Maliki scholars, and used this educational network to strengthen Sunni orthodoxy and centralization; by the late 1270s Fez had become one of North Africa's most important scholarly cities.