IBN TUMART

ĭˈbən toomärtˈ, c.1080–1130, Berber Muslim religious leader, founder of the Almohads. He went to the East in his youth and returned convinced that he was the Mahdi and that he was destined to reform Islam. He was a rigorist and purist in doctrine and morality. Believing in a mystical concept of the oneness of God, Ibn Tumart fought violently the anthropomorphism then current. He became increasingly fanatical, until he finally preached a holy war against Muslims who disagreed with him. He was esteemed as a man of compelling personality and of great sagacity.

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Ibn Khaldun: An Essay in Reinterpretation
Book by Aziz Al-Azmeh; Central European University Press, 2003
Subjects: History--Philosophy, Ibn Khaldun--1332-1406
...Ashari (d. 324/935-6), as in Ibn Asakir (d. 571/1176) and Subki...have been imported into the Maghrib by Ibn Tumart (d. 523/1128) and the Almohad...hierarchy. 86 A formulation identical to Ibn Khatduns occurs in Ghazali, Iqtlsad...
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Ibn 'Abbad of Ronda: Letters on the Sufi Path
Book by John Renard, Muhammad ibn Ibrahim B. Ibn 'Abbad; Paulist Press, 1986
...12 , 48 , 200 n 61 Ibn Masarra of Almeria, 31 Ibn Masarra of Cordova, 33 -34 Ibn Mashish, 34 -37 Ibn Taymiyyah, 43 Ibn Tufayl, 34 Ibn Tumart, 46 , 198 n 56 Idrisid dynasty, the, 3 7 Ignatius of Loyola, 8 Illuminationism, 3 3 Imrani, al...
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Arabia Reborn
Book by George Kheirallah; University of New Mexico Press, 1952
Subjects: Arabian Peninsula--History, Ibn Saud--King of Saudi Arabia--1880-1953
...was its leader. It was then that Ibn Tumart considered himself ready to reform...fleeing back to Tinmallal, where Ibn Tumart assured them of ultimate victory. But Ibn Tumart was not to live to see his prediction...
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Why I Am Not a Muslim
Book by Ibn Warraq; Prometheus Books, 1995
...331 Ibn Sina, 49 , 262 , 264 , 339 Ibn Sinan, 255 Ibn Sunayna, 95 Ibn Taimiya, 271 , 279 , 280 Ibn Tufayl, 269 -70 Ibn Tumart, 279 Ibn Wahshiyya, 206 Ibrahim b. Sayyab, 256 Id l-Azha, 37 Ifrits, 117 India, 120 , 199 Indonesia...
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Holiest Wars: Islamic Mahdis, Their Jihads, and Osama Bin Laden
Book by Timothy R. Furnish; Praeger, 2005
Subjects: Islam--21st Century, Islamic Fundamentalism, Jihad, Mahdism--History Of Doctrines, Terrorism--Religious Aspects--Islam, War--Religious Aspects--Islam
...actually happened or not, by the time Ibn Tumart made his way back west to his native...overthrow, the Murabit regime. Ibn Tumart was now at the point, reached eventually...Murabit doctrine and practice upset Ibn Tumart. The most galling was their almost...
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The World of Ibn Tufayl: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Hayy Ibn Yaqzan
Journal article by Peter Heath; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 118, 1998
Subjects: Books--Reviews
...are two. First is the influence of Ibn Tumart, the founder of the Muwahhid (Almohad...emphasize the direct influence of Ibn Tumart on Ibn Tufail must be balanced by...influence on Ibn Tufail than did Ibn Tumart. As for the "rationality" of Andalusian...
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Religious Inquisition as Social Policy: The Persecution of the 'Zanadiqa' in the Early Abbasid Caliphate
Journal article by Mahmood Ibrahim; Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ), Vol. 16, 1994
Subjects: Islam--History, Religion and politics--History
...In Islamic history, this is best evoked by the polemics by (and against) Ibn Hanbal, al-Ghazali, Ibn Rushd, Ibn Tumart, and Ibn Taymiyya. The more we learn about the society that lived those debates, the more we should become aware...
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On Judicial Review in Islamic Law
Journal article by David S. Powers; Law & Society Review, Vol. 26, 1992
Subjects: Sociological Jurisprudence
...southern Morocco by the religious scholar, Muhammad Ibn Tumart, who sought to restore the Islamic community to the...himself to be the mahdi or infallible leader sent by God, Ibn Tumart instituted a new form of government that superimposed...
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The Moses of Cairo
Journal article by Benjamin Balint; Policy Review, 2009
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds (Biography)--Book reviews
...Arab historians like Jamal al-Din Ibn al-Qifti. The result is the broadest...in particular. The Almohad leader Ibn Tumart declared, "Come let us cut them off...In a letter to his translator Samuel Ibn Tibbon, Maimonides explained why his...


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encyclopedia articles on: Ibn Tumart  - 3 results

 
 
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Ibn Tumart
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
IBN TUMART i b n toomart , c.1080 1130, Berber Muslim religious leader, founder...and morality. Believing in a mystical concept of the oneness of God, Ibn Tumart fought violently the anthropomorphism then current. He became increasingly...
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Abd Al-Mumin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...dal-mu min, d. 1163, founder of the empire of the Almohads . He was the favorite of the Almohad religious reformer Ibn Tumart and became (1130) his successor. Even before his rise to leadership, he had attacked the Almoravids . After long...
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Almohads
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...dynasty that ruled Morocco and Spain in the 12th and 13th cent. It had its origins in the puritanical sect founded by Ibn Tumart , who stirred up (c.1120) the tribes of the Atlas Mts. area to purify Islam and oust the Almoravids . His successors...


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