Editing Abd al-Mu'min (section)

== Legacy ==
Abd al-Mu'min established a central government that would control [[North Africa]] for more than a half century after he died. He founded a dynasty which his family, the Mu'minids, controlled.<ref name="books.google.co.uk"/> He added to the traditional clan organisations of the [[Berber people|Berbers]] the concept of ''[[Makhzen|Makhzan]]'', a central administration staffed by Spanish Muslims. To keep the Empire's revenue flowing, he created a land registry. Abd al-Mu'min also supported the arts, but in keeping with the founders' wishes, when mosques were built he kept them simple and plain compared to other structures of that time.<ref name=EB/> He is considered as a national hero in [[Algeria]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/abd-al-mu-min/|title='ABD AL-MU'MIN|last=Universalis|first=Encyclopædia|website=Encyclopædia Universalis|access-date=2017-01-07}}</ref>

He was also a prodigious builder of monuments and palaces. He notably founded the [[Kutubiyya Mosque]] in Marrakesh and the [[Tinmal Mosque|Mosque of Tinmel]].<ref name=":14">{{Cite book|last=Salmon|first=Xavier|title=Maroc Almoravide et Almohade: Architecture et décors au temps des conquérants, 1055-1269|publisher=LienArt|year=2018|location=Paris}}</ref><ref name=":23">{{Cite book|last=Bennison|first=Amira K.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=19JVDwAAQBAJ&q=The+Almoravid+and+Almohad+Empires&pg=PP1|title=The Almoravid and Almohad Empires|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|year=2016|isbn=9780748646821}}</ref> In 1150 he built the [[Kasbah of the Udayas]], across the river from Salé, and founded an adjacent settlement. Naming the new fortress ''al-Mahdiyya'' or ''Ribat al-Fath'', he intended to use it as a staging point for future campaigns on the Iberian Peninsula.<ref name=":23" />{{Rp|309–310}} The settlement was further embellished and fortified by Yaq'ub al-Mansur at the end of the 12th century, and eventually became modern-day Rabat.<ref name=":23" />