Marinid Empire

Marinid dynasty
ⵉⵎⵔⵉⵏⴻⵏ Imrinen (ber) المرينيون Al Marīniyūn (ar)
Ruling dynasty of Morocco
1244–1465
Flag Emblem
The Marinid realm at its maximal extent (1347–1348)
Capital		Fes
Religion		Sunni Islam
Government		Sultanate
Sultan
•	1215–1217	Abd al-Haqq I
•	1420–1465	Abd al-Haqq II
History
•	Established	1244
•	Disestablished	1465
Currency		Dinar
Preceded by Succeeded by Almohad dynasty Wattasid dynasty

Banu Abd al-Haqq
Country	Morocco
Parent house	Banu Marin
Titles	Sultan of Morocco
Style(s)	Amir al-Muslimin
Founded	1215
Founder	Abd al-Haqq I
Final ruler	Abd al-Haqq II
Current head	none
Deposition	1465
Cadet branches	Wattasid dynasty Ouartajin dynasty

The Marinid dynasty (Berber: Imrinen, Arabic: Marīniyūn) or Banu abd al-Haqq was a Sunni Muslim dynasty of Zenata Berber descent that ruled Morocco from the 13th to the 15th century.

In 1244, the Marinids overthrew the Almohad dynasty, which controlled Morocco. It briefly held sway over all the Maghreb in the mid-14th century. The Marinid dynasty supported the Kingdom of Granada in Al-Andalus in the 13th and 14th centuries; an attempt to gain a direct foothold on the European side of the Strait of Gibraltar was however defeated at the Battle of Río Salado in 1340 and finished after the Castilian conquest of Algeciras from the Marinids in 1344.

The Marinids were overthrown after the 1465 revolt. The Wattasids, a related dynasty, came to power in 1472.

The Marinids were a branch of the Wassin (), a nomadic Zenata Berber tribe that lived in the Zibans () (present-day Algeria) before being driven towards Tlemcen by the Arab invasion in the 11th century.

The tribe had first frequented the area between Sijilmasa and Figuig. Following the arrival of Arab tribes in the area in the 11th-12th centuries, Marinids moved to the north-west of present-day Algeria, before settling into northern Morocco by the beginning of the 13th century.