Abd al-Mu'min ibn Ali al-Qumi
Abd al-Mu'min ibn Ali, of the Berber Kumiya tribe, met Ibn Tumart at Malala near Bougie, became one of his closest followers, and then succeeded him as leader of the Almohad movement, founding the Mu'minid dynasty. He ruled from 527/1133 to 558/1163, ended Almoravid power with the capture of Marrakesh, and added Ifriqiya and Almohad al-Andalus to Morocco.
Reign · Almohad Caliphate · no. 1 in the chain · 1147–1163 CE
Ruled the caliphate
Events of the reign
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Almohad conquest of Marrakesh
Draft card for the Almohad conquest of Marrakesh in 1146–47, the Almoravid capital's fall to Abd al-Mu'min; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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The extinction of the Almoravid state in al-Andalus, 552
In 552 the Almoravid (Mulaththimun) state in al-Andalus was extinguished — nothing remained to them but the island of Majorca.
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Andalusi revolt against the Almoravids (1144–1147)
Draft card for Andalusi revolt against the Almoravids (1144–1147); its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Battle of Al-Qarn (1160)
Draft card for Battle of Al-Qarn (1160); its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Battle of Alcácer do Sal (1161)
Draft card for Battle of Alcácer do Sal (1161); its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Battle of Sétif (1153)
Draft card for the Battle of Sétif in 1153, the Almohad victory over Norman Sicily's forces; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Conquest of Almeria (1147)
Draft card for Conquest of Almeria (1147); its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Conquest of Santarém
Draft card for the Conquest of Santarém in 1147, Afonso I's night seizure of the Muslim city; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Alfonso's Siege of Cordoba and Its Submission to the Almohads
Alfonso VII's siege of Cordoba (545) with forty thousand horse while the city starved; Abd al-Mu'min sent twelve thousand under whom the Frank withdrew, and the commander Abu al-Ghamr al-Sa'ib surrendered it to Yahya ibn Maymun — then the Almohad army entered al-Andalus twenty thousand strong under al-Muntati, and Granada's Maymun and Ibn Hamushk submitted.
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The fall of Almeria to the Christians, 542 AH
The sack of Almeria (Friday 17 Jumada I 542): the Castilian-Genoese force under Alfonso VII — 'the emperor, son of Alfonso's daughter' — stormed the harbour city and carried off fourteen thousand maidens alone; the hafiz Ibn Hubaysh won his household's freedom by reciting the emperor's pedigree back to Heraclius, and the traditionist al-Rushati was martyred in its fall. The Almohads Abd al-Mu'min's sons recovered it — fighting Christians within and Ibn Mardanish without until he withdrew in shame at fighting men who fought the Christians.
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The Kutubiyya mosque at Marrakesh
The Almohad caliph Abd al-Mu'min built the Kutubiyya mosque at Marrakesh about 553/1158 — its minaret the grandest of the Islamic West.
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Roger of Sicily Seizes Mahdiyya
In 543 Roger of Sicily's fleet under George of Antioch took Mahdiyya and the whole littoral, imposing the jarī levy and his governors over the towns until the Almohad Abd al-Mu'min recovered them in 555.
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Nuzhat al-Mushtaq completed, 549 AH
Al-Idrisi completed for Roger II the Nuzhat al-Mushtaq geography in 549/1154 with the celebrated planisphere known as the Tabula Rogeriana.
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Siege of Almería (1157)
Draft card for Siege of Almería (1157); its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Siege of Mahdia (1159–1160)
Draft card for Siege of Mahdia (1159–1160); its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Siege of Mahon (1147)
Draft card for Siege of Mahon (1147); its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Siege of Tortosa
Draft card for the Siege of Tortosa in 1148, Ramon Berenguer IV's crusade-era capture from the Almoravids; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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The Tripoli Uprising against the Christians and Their Burning
When Roger of Sicily took Tripoli of Ifriqiya and kept its Muslims under his rule, Abu Yahya ibn Matruh, one of the town's notables, went among its leading men and drew them into striking the Normans — they rose, killed them and burned them, and Ibn Matruh governed Tripoli until Abd al-Mu'min's coming in 555 restored it.