Information AboutAbu-bakr Ibn-umar |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT ABU-BAKR IBN-UMAR | |
| history of morocco | |
| 1087 deaths | |
| ibn-umar, abu-bakr | |
| almoravid dynasty | |
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He was appointed General of the Moroccan Murabit sect by its leader Abd Allah Ibn Yasin on the death of his brother Yahya Ibn Ibrahim in 1056 . He captured Sousse and Aghmat in southern Morocco in 1057 , and became leader of the Murabit on the death of Ibn Yasin in battle with the Berghwata Berber s in 1059 . Abu Bakr subdued the Berghwata and sent a Murabit army northward under his cousin Yusuf Ibn Tashfin while he raided south across the Sahara to West Africa in 1061 . He allowed Yusuf ibn Tashfin to continue autonomous operations after his own return from West Africa, subduing Ghana in 1076 and initiating the spread of Islam on the southern periphery of the Sahara. Abu-Bakr Ibn-Umar died shortly after receiving news of Yusuf Ibn Tashfin's victory at Battle Of Az-Zallaqah near Badajoz , Spain , in 1087. A leader of remarkable ability, he fused his tribes with a religious reform movement; his remarkable tolerance of Ibn-Tashfin's insubordination preserved the infant Almoravid (Murabit) state and permitted its rapid expansion into Muslim Spain and most of North Africa as well.
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