yusuf-ibn-tachfin

Updated: May 10, 2025

As it is now, Yusuf-ibn-Tachfin founded it in 1072, a city which covers almost as much ground as Paris a purely African city. Fez, Tetuan, Tangier, have Spanish blood in them: Marrakesh is African to the core.

Isabel Savory - In the Tail of the Peacock