Moors? Like Elmoheads?

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maybe, I don't think so though. I've only been allied with them for a couple turns. The reason they did so well was because of their very, very effective use of Jihads. Three or Four Jihads were called in my campaign so far, all of them against Iberian cities, and the Moors won them all except one. That one was won by Egypt, who took Leon, and then lost it to the Moors a couple turns later.

I did absorb all of Egypt's fighting power, though. Maybe in your campaign the Egyptians turned and took out the Moors' north african provinces to cripple them, but in my campaign they were too busy fighting me to hit the Moors. So the Moors got an easy, single-front war.

The Moors' biggest problem, though, is their utter uselessness in the Late period. They get no units that can even remotely match the late period units of the Turks, Russia, or the Catholic factions. I'm surprised they're still doing well. Even though it's only 1192 in my game, I set the time scale to 1.00, so everyone is starting to get their late-period units now. I guess we'll see if the Moors manage to get pushed back.