Abd al-Mu'min | |||||
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Caliph and Amir al-Mu'minin | |||||
Ruler of the Almohad Caliphate | |||||
Reign | 1133–1163 | ||||
Successor | Abu Yaqub Yusuf | ||||
Born | c. 1094 Tagra, Tlemcen, Hammadid kingdom[1][2][3] | ||||
Died | 1163 (aged c. 69) Salé, Almohad Caliphate | ||||
Spouse | Safiya bint Abi Imran | ||||
Issue | Abu Yaqub Yusuf Aisha bint Abd al-Mu'min[4] | ||||
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Dynasty | Almohad | ||||
Father | Ali ibn Makhluf al-Kumi | ||||
Mother | Ta'lu bint Atiyya ibn al-Khayr[5] | ||||
Religion | Islam |
Abd al Mu'min (c. 1094–1163) (Arabic: عبد المؤمن بن علي or عبد المومن الــكـومي; full name: ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAlwī ibn Yaʿlā al-Kūmī Abū Muḥammad)[6] was a prominent member of the Almohad movement. Although the Almohad movement itself was founded by Ibn Tumart, Abd al-Mu’min was the founder of the ruling dynasty and creator of the Almohad empire.[7][8][9][10][11][12] As a leader of the Almohad movement he became the first Caliph of the Almohad Empire in 1133, after the death in 1130 of the movement's founder, Ibn Tumart, and ruled until his death in 1163. Abd al-Mu'min put his predecessor's doctrine of Almohadism into practice, defeated the Almoravids, and extended his rule across Al-Andalus (on the Iberian Peninsula) and as far as Tunis in Ifriqiya (present-day Tunisia), thus bringing the Maghreb in North Africa and Al-Andalus in Europe under one creed and one government.[13][14]
'Abd al-Mu'min ibn 'Ali ibn Makhluf ibn Yu'la ibn Marwan, born in 1094 in Tagra (now in Algeria), was the son of Ali, a humble potter and member of the Koumiya, an Arabized section of the Berber Zanata tribe.
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