Islam is present throughout the Moroccan architecture, but it is not the only factor on the contrary, there are many influences that have allowed such a diversity of style.

The regional climate, history with Spain and Europe, the country's resources, trade flows from the Sahara and the Mediterranean as well as ancient local traditions dating back before the first Muslim influences, all these factors have contributed to put in contact with many styles.

To the east of the chain of Atlas, where the land is dry and desert naturally has imposed the use of non-baked bricks, which led to gross architectures which weaken rapidly with time.

To the west, water and wood are not a rarity, the plains are watered, there is the cork oak and large slopes covered with forests of cedars and junipers. The buildings benefit from raw materials to decorate homes and consolidate. It is in these areas that major cities were built and that we find the famous buildings of the imperial cities.

Other sites like Atlas and the southern plains rich have about them a privileged military architecture dating back far in history, at a time when large Moroccan dynasties are created and where the land was the place where all conflicts and all conquests of power.
Thus were born castles (Ksour) and the most famous citadels known as the Kasbah. In the mountains, you can even find fully fortified villages and east of Marrakech, it is still possible to admire Kasbahs of the Glaoui, Tazerte and Taffoultoute.