Berber confederation on the Atlantic coast of Morocco with its own syncretic religion.
The Barghawata Confederacy was conquered by the Almoravids around 1060 AD under Abu Bakr ibn Umar, who forced conversion to orthodox Islam; the remaining Barghawata identity was finally eliminated by the Almohads by 1149.
Covers the Berber confederations of Morocco including the heterodox Barghawata.
The Berber world of the Atlantic Maghreb (broad context).