Ibn Tumart

Abu Abd Allah Muhammad Ibn Tumart , a Muslim Berber religious scholar, teacher and political leader, came from southern Morocco. He founded and served as the spiritual 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 Spain. He is also known as ElMahdi in reference to his prophesied redeeming.

Many of the details of Ibn Tumarts life were recorded by hagiographers, whose accounts probably mix legendary elements from the Almohad doctrine of their founding figure and spiritual leader. Ibn Tumart was born sometime between 1078 and 1082 in the small village of Igiliz in the Sous valley of southern Morocco. He was a member of the Hargha people, a Berber tribe of the AntiAtlas range, part of the Masmuda tribal confederation.

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