The Almohads (al-Muwaḥḥid) were followers of the reformist Almohad ideology in which the concept of tawḥīd (divine unity) was central. This creed was the official doctrine of the Almohad empire, which ruled North Africa from 524/1130 to 668/1269 and al-Andalus from 524/1130 to 668/1269. The Almohads and their reformist and puritan doctrine appeared in the southern Maghrib beginning in the second decade of the sixth/twelfth century, after uniting with the Maṣmūda (a Berber ethnic group) and forging a well-organised state apparatus that