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==Background== Abu Bakr ibn Umar was a member of the [[Banu Turgut]], a clan of the [[Lamtuna]] Berbers. His uncle, [[Yahya Ibn Ibrahim]] was the chieftain of the Lamtuna who, together with the [[Maliki]] scholar [[Abdallah ibn Yasin]], launched the [[Almoravid dynasty|Almoravid]] (''murabitūn'') movement in the early 1040s. [[File:Camel Rider 1413 Mecia Viladestes map.jpg|thumb|left|Possible depiction of Abu Bakr ibn Umar (labelled "Rex Bubecar"), in the 1413 [[portolan chart]] of [[Mecia de Viladestes]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=de la Roncière |first=Charles |title=La découverte de l'Afrique au Moyen Age, cartographes et explorateurs |publisher=Sociéte royale de géographie d'Égypte |year=1925 |location=Cairo |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Cortesão |first=Jaime |title=Os Descobrimentos portugueses |publisher=Livros Horizonte |year=1975 |volume=2 |pages=339 |language=pt}}</ref>]]
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