The Importance of Humorless, Self-Righteous Religious Zealots

The Christian Reconquest will be almost complete by 1252, with only an outpost of Islamic dominion remaining in the far south until 1492. The Almojad movement was founded by a Berber named Imtumart, a strict and charismatic religious leader who came from the mountains in Morocco. Like the Prophet Muhammad, he received a kind of religious mission while meditating in a cave. He emerged not with a revelation like that of the Prophet but with a righteous cause.