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Ibn Tumart
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Amazigh religious scholar, teacher and politician
Person · Open Library
- Died
- approximately 1130
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Kanz al-ʻulūm wa-al-durr al-manẓūm fī ḥaqāʼiq ʻilm al-sharīʻah wa-daqāʼiq ʻilm al-ṭabīʻah
- A'azz mā yuṭlab
- Muwaṭṭaʼ al-Imām al-Mahdī
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Key facts
- Title
- Imam al-Ummah, إمام الأمة
- Born
- 1080, Igiliz , Sous , Almoravid Empire
- Died
- August 1130 (1130-08-00) (aged 49–50) , Tinmel , High Atlas
- Resting place
- Tinmel Mosque
- Parents
- Tumart ibn Nitawas or ibn Titawin (father) Umm al-Husayn bint Waburkan al-Masakkali (mother)
- Region
- Maghreb and Al Andalus
- Religion
- Islam
- Jurisprudence
- Zahiri
- Creed
- Ash'ari - Mu'tazili
- Movement
- Almohad
- Disciple of
- At-Turtushi
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Muhammad
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Almohad Caliphate
- Place of death
- Tinmel
- Occupation
- poet
- Languages spoken
- Arabic
- Native language
- Berber
- Religion
- Islam
- Conflict
- Battle of al-Buhayra
- Image
- Abu Yaqub Yusef Coin.png
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- date of death
- 1130-12-25
- student
- Abd al-Mu'min
- date of birth
- 1078-10-07
- Commons category
- Ibn Tumart
- ethnic group
- Masmuda
- madhhab
- Ẓāhirī
- name in native language
- ابن تومرت
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Encyclopedic overview
Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad Ibn Tūmart (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد ابن تومرت, Berber languages: ⵎⵓⵃⵎⵎⴰⴷ ⵓⵜⵎⵔⵜ; ca. 1080– August 1130) was a Muslim religious scholar, teacher and political leader, from the Sous in southern present-day Morocco. He founded and served as the spiritual and first military leader of the Almohad movement, a puritanical reform movement launched among the Masmuda Berbers of the Atlas Mountains. Ibn Tumart launched an open revolt against the ruling Almoravids during the 1120s. After his death his followers, the Almohads, went on to conquer much of North Africa and part of Spain. Although the Almohad movement itself was founded by Ibn Tumart, after his death the second ruler Abd al-Mu'min was elected in 1133 by the Masmuda Shaykhs the leading authority of the state the councils of 10 and 50.
Ibn Tumart is proclaimed Mahdi. Folio from a manuscript of Nigaristan, Iran, probably Shiraz, dated 1573-74
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ibn Tumart” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.