Tombs in Fez
Marinids Tombs
The Marinids tombs in Fez were built in the 14th century, the tombs were once a splendid resting places of the Merenids’ finest. It is not certain who specifically was buried there. Fez came under the Marinids rulez in 1250 and they turned it into their capital. They built a a new fortified palace city (Fes el-Jdid) in 1276 alongside the existing old city (Fes el-Bali). Starting in 1287, they also built a palace and a mosque on the hill just outside the city walls to the north, overlooking the heart of the old city.
The hill where tombs stand today was known as al-Qula, but today simply as the “Hill of the Marinids”. Fez remained under Marinid rule until it was conquered by the Sadi dynasty in the sixteenth-century, and then again by the ‘Alawi dynasty in 1666. In the late nineteenth-century Fes al-Jadid and Fes al-Bali were united with new walls.
Abu Abdullah of Granada
Abu Abdullah was the last Muslim rulr of Granada which fell to the Catholic monarchs on January 2, 1492. After leaving Andalusia, on a horse, King Abu Abdullah looked back at the Alhambra Palace and Granada for the last time He started to cry, now cit is alled Ultimo Suspiro del Moro. Later he went to Fez, Morocco, then under the rule of Sultan Muhammad Al-Waththasi. He died at 940 H / 1533 in Fez.
Tijani was born in 1735 in Ain Mahdi. WHen he was around 22, he came to Fez and started his own sufi sect of Islam. He was well received in Fez where he prayed he taught about his knowledge and wisdom.
