Abu Bakr ibn Umar

Names
	Abu Bakr ben Umar ben Ibrahim ben Turgut al-Lamtuni

أبو بكر بن عمر
Abu Bakr ibn Umar
أبو بكر بن عمر; Abu Bakr ibn Umar
Amir Al-Muslimin
	Coin minted under Abu Bakr ibn Umar
Amir of the Almoravids
Reign	1056 – 1087
Predecessor	Yahya ibn Umar
Successor	Yusuf ibn Tashfin
Partitioned rule	1072 – 1087
Co-ruler	Yusuf ibn Tashfin (1072 - 1087)
Born	Unknown
Died	1087; Tagant
Spouse	Zaynab an-Nafzawiyyah (m. 1068; div. 1071); Fâtimata Sal (c.1086)
Issue	Amadou ben Boubakar
Names
Names
	Abu Bakr ben Umar ben Ibrahim ben Turgut al-Lamtuni
Father	Umar ben Ibrahim al-Lamtuni
Mother	Safiya al-Djedaliya
Religion	Islam

Abu Bakr ibn Umar ibn Ibrahim ibn Turgut, sometimes suffixed al-Sanhaji or al-Lamtuni ^[2] (died 1087; Arabic: أبو بكر بن عمر) was a chieftain of the Lamtuna Berber Tribe and Amir of the Almoravids from 1056 until his death. He is credited to have founded the Moroccan city of Marrakesh, and under his rule the heretic Barghawatas were destroyed.^[3] In 1076, he conquered Koumbi Saleh capital of the Ghana Empire, and is credited to have brought Islam in this Western Sub-Saharan Africa region. In November of 1087, Abu Bakr died of a poisoned arrow in what is now Mauritania.

^ al-Fāsī, ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Abī Zarʻ; al-Gharnāṭī, Ṣāliḥ ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm (1860). Roudh el-Kartas: Histoire des souverains du Maghreb (Espagne et Maroc) et annales de la ville de Fès (in French). Impr. impériale. p. 185. The Emir Abou Beker ben Omar... had as mother Safiya, free woman, of the Djedala
^ Full patronymic record varies in the sources. Collating various sources, his full name was probably Abu Bakr ibn Umar ibn Talagagin (alias Ibrahim) ibn Turgut (or Turgit or Waraggut) ibn Wartantaq. See N. Levtzion and J.F.P. Hopkins, 200'0, editors, Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History, University of Ghana, p.409.
^ trans. from Arabic by A. Graulle & G. S. Colin, Ahmed ben Khâled Ennâsiri (1925). Kitâb Elistiqsâ li-Akhbâri doual Elmâgrib Elaqsâ ["Le livre de la recherche approfondie des événements des dynasties de l'extrême Magrib"], vol. XXXI : Histoire du Maroc (in French). Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner. p. 136. his first act, ..., was to march against the Baraghwata, firmly determined to fight them, after having taken God as his agent in the holy war he was about to wage against them. He slew many of them and made captives a large number of them,... The survivors converted again to Islam; Abu Bakr ibn Umar wiped out their heresy from the Maghrib.

[1] -Fāsī, ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Abī Zarʻ; al-Gharnāṭī, Ṣāliḥ ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm (1860). Roudh el-Kartas: Histoire des souverains du Maghreb (Espagne et Maroc) et annales de la ville de Fès (in French). Impr. impériale. p. 185. The Emir Abou Beker ben Omar... had as mother Safiya, free woman, of the Djedala

[2] Full patronymic record varies in the sources. Collating various sources, his full name was probably Abu Bakr ibn Umar ibn Talagagin (alias Ibrahim) ibn Turgut (or Turgit or Waraggut) ibn Wartantaq. See N. Levtzion and J.F.P. Hopkins, 200'0, editors, Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History, University of Ghana, p.409.

[3] trans. from Arabic by A. Graulle & G. S. Colin, Ahmed ben Khâled Ennâsiri (1925). Kitâb Elistiqsâ li-Akhbâri doual Elmâgrib Elaqsâ ["Le livre de la recherche approfondie des événements des dynasties de l'extrême Magrib"], vol. XXXI : Histoire du Maroc (in French). Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner. p. 136. his first act, ..., was to march against the Baraghwata, firmly determined to fight them, after having taken God as his agent in the holy war he was about to wage against them. He slew many of them and made captives a large number of them,... The survivors converted again to Islam; Abu Bakr ibn Umar wiped out their heresy from the Maghrib.

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