Yusuf ibn Tashfin
A Swiss online encyclopedia on the history of baking, on the other hand, dates the first almond biscuits to the 11th century under the aegis of the sultan and first king of the Almoravid dynasty Yusuf ibn Tashfin, where the almond cake Ghouryeba or Ghriba was served mainly during Ramadan. The almond biscuits spread from Arabia to Sicily as far as Venice, where the term macarone was generally used to describe fine biscuits.