Editing Abd al-Mu'min (section)

{{Short description|Founder and Caliph of the Almohad Caliphate from 1133 to 1163}}
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| name         = Abd al-Mu'min
| title        = [[Caliph]] and [[Amir al-Mu'minin]]
| image        = Abdalmumin ben ali nedroma statue.jpg
| caption      = Statue of Abd al Mumin in [[Nedroma]], [[Algeria]]
| succession   = Ruler of the [[Almohad Caliphate]]
| reign        = 1133–1163
| issue        = [[Abu Yaqub Yusuf]]<br /> Aisha bint Abd al-Mu'min<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fierro |first=Maribel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7bMbEAAAQBAJ&q=A%E2%80%99isha&pg=PT85 |title='Abd al-Mu'min: Mahdism and Caliphate in the Islamic West |date=2021-11-04 |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |isbn=978-0-86154-192-8 |pages=73 |language=en}}</ref>
| full name    = Abd al-Mu'min ibn Ali al-Kumi
| predecessor  = 
| successor    = [[Abu Yaqub Yusuf]]
| royal house  = 
| dynasty      = [[Almohad dynasty|Almohad]]
| father       = Ali ibn Makhluf al-Kumi
| mother       = Ta'lu bint Atiyya ibn al-Khayr<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fierro |first=Maribel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7bMbEAAAQBAJ&q=Ta%E2%80%99lu&pg=PT85 |title='Abd al-Mu'min: Mahdism and Caliphate in the Islamic West |date=2021-11-04 |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |isbn=978-0-86154-192-8 |pages=69 |language=en}}</ref>
| birth_date   = c. 1094
| birth_place  = Tagra, [[Tlemcen]], [[Hammadid dynasty|Hammadid kingdom]]<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CurSh3Sh_KMC&pg=PA4 |title = Dictionary of World Biography: The Middle Ages - Google Books|isbn = 9781579580414|last1 = Magill|first1 = Frank Northen|last2 = Aves|first2 = Alison|year = 1998| publisher=Routledg | quote='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.}}</ref><ref name="Encyclopedia Britannica"/><ref name=Fierro>Fierro, Maribel. 2021. [https://books.google.com/books?id=7bMbEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT65 'Abd al-Mu'min: Mahdism and Caliphate in the Islamic West]. [[Simon & Schuster]]. "Having been born in Hammadid territory, 'Abd al-Mu'min must have been aware of this, and in his military expeditions the navy played an important role."</ref>
| death_date   = 1163 (aged c. 69)
| death_place  = [[Salé]], [[Almohad Caliphate]]
| date of burial = 
| place of burial = 
| spouse       = Safiya bint Abi Imran
| religion     = [[Islam]]|
}}
'''Abd al-Mu'min''' (c. 1094–1163) ({{langx|ar|عبد المؤمن بن علي or عبد المومن الــكـومي}}; full name: '''ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAlwī ibn Yaʿlā al-Kūmī''' '''Abū Muḥammad''')<ref name="EI2" /> 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.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=xowm255qOzQC&pg=PA180 The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy - Cambridge University PressBy Cambridge companion to philosophy]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=RHZC5hsDWGkC Oye, Ogun Journal of Arts, Volume 4 Faculty of Arts, Ogun State University]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=OO4pAQAAMAAJ The Encyclopaedia of Islam: NED-SAMHamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=52BmAAAAMAAJ The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Biography: An International Reference Work, Volume 1]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=eL3XAAAAMAAJ The Religious Traditions of Africa: A History - Elizabeth Isichei]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=JqToAAAAMAAJ Encyclopaedia Britannica: Macropaedia: knowledge in depth. 19 vEncyclopaedia Britannica, Incorporated]</ref> 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 [[Almohad doctrine|Almohadism]] into practice, defeated the [[Almoravid dynasty|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.<ref>[[Kojiro Nakamura]], "Ibn Mada's Criticism of Arab Grammarians." ''Orient'', v. 10, pgs. 89-113. 1974</ref><ref name=":23" />