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== Early life ==
[[File:Motagne Tajra-Tlemcen-Honaïne-Almohade-Samir Terkih.jpg|thumb|Road leading to Mount Tajra, the highest point of the Eastern [[Trara Mountains|Trara mountains]] range, where Abd al-Mu'min was born, in [[Nedroma]], [[Tlemcen Province]]]]
Abd al-Mu'min was born in the village of Tagra,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=CurSh3Sh_KMC&pg=PA4 Dictionary of World Biography: The Middle Ages - Page 4]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=EMTXAAAAMAAJ Encyclopaedia of the World Muslims: Tribes, Castes and Communities]</ref> near [[Tlemcen]], in the [[Hammadid dynasty|Kingdom of the Hammadids]], present-day [[Algeria]],<ref name="Encyclopedia Britannica">{{cite web |title=ʿAbd al-Muʾmin - Almohad caliph |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abd-al-Mumin |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220425012020/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abd-al-Mumin |archive-date=25 April 2022 |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |quote=ʿAbd al-Muʾmin, in full ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn ʿAli, (born c. 1094, Tagra, Kingdom of the Ḥammādids—died 1163, Rabat, Almohad Empire), Berber caliph of the Almohad dynasty (reigned 1130–63) ...}}</ref><ref name=Fierro /> into the [[Kumiya]] tribe, an [[Arabization|Arabized]] section of the [[Berbers|Berber]] [[Zenata]] tribal confederation.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Magill |first1=Frank Northen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CurSh3Sh_KMC&pg=PA4 |title=Dictionary of World Biography: The Middle Ages - Google Books |last2=Aves |first2=Alison |publisher=Routledg |year=1998 |isbn=9781579580414 |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=":1">{{Cite book |last1=Gates |first1=Henry Louis |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195382075.001.0001/acref-9780195382075-e-0018?rskey=x05bKf&result=15 |title=Dictionary of African Biography |last2=Akyeampong |first2=Emmanuel |last3=Niven |first3=Steven |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2012 |isbn=9780199857258 |language=English}}</ref> This tribe settled in the north of what is now the [[Oran|province of Oran]], not far from [[Nedroma]].<ref name="EI2">{{EI2|volume=1|last=Lévi-Provençal|first=Évariste|title='Abd al-Mu'min|pages=78–79}}</ref> His father was a potter from Nedroma.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=QP0PAQAAIAAJ&q=%22berber+of+the+tribe+of+the+Kumiya,+was+the+son+of+a+potter+of+Nedroma The Muslims: Encyclopaedia of Islam : Including Entries Prepared by a Number of Leading Orientalists and Modern Islamic Scholars, Volume 1 - Page 255]</ref>

While young, Abd al-Mu'min went to Tlemcen to learn the [[Fiqh]]. His tutor died before he could complete his study. He then was made aware of a learned and pious [[Faqih]] called ''Feqih Soussi'' (later known as [[Ibn Tumart]]) who was travelling from the east on his way to his native land in [[Tinmel]], present-day [[Morocco]]. Abd al-Mu'min and his peers wanted to convince Ibn Tumart to settle in Tlemcen, so he was sent to Ibn Tumart with a letter from the students inviting him to come to their land.  The two met at Mellala near [[Béjaïa|Bejaïa]].<ref name="Ibn Khaldun2">{{cite book |title= تاريخ ابن خلدون: ديوان المبتدأ و الخبر في تاريخ العرب و البربر و من عاصرهم من ذوي الشأن الأكبر |last= Ibn Khaldun |first=Abderahman |author-link=Ibn Khaldun |year=1377 |publisher= دار الفكر | volume= 6 |page=167 }}</ref>  Ibn Tumart turned down the invitation, but Abd al-Mu'min stayed with him and they continued the journey together to [[Morocco]].<ref name="Ibn Khaldun2"/>