Masmudis (Without Islam)

The Muyedis (Moorish: ⵉⵎⵓⵢⵢⴹⴻⵏ Imwyyḍen, Spanish: Muyedíes) was a Moorish movement and, later, nation-state founded in the 12th century. The Muyedi movement was started by Tumart among the Masmuda tribes of southern Mauritania. The Muyedis first established a Moor state in Tinmel in the Atlas Mountains in roughly 1120. Awzal Maysar Lwiwurgh (†1163) succeeded in overthrowing the ruling Morabedis in governing Mauritania by 1147, when he conquered Marrakech and declared himself as King of the Moors. The Muyedis then extended their power over all Mauritania and Wandalus (Moorish Iberia) before a decade.

The Muyedi dominance of Wandalus continued until 1212, when king Izemrasen Lmassin (1199–1214) was defeated at the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in the Sierra Morena by an alliance of the Catholic princes of Castile, Aragon, Navarre, and Portugal. Nearly all of the Moorish dominions in Iberia were lost soon after, with the great Moorish cities of Cordova and Seville falling to the Catholics in 1236 and 1248 respectively.