Abd al-Mu'min (
1094-1163) (
Arabic: عبد المؤمن بن علي) was the first
Caliph of the
Almohad Empire.Abd al-Mu'min was a member of the group of
Masmuda Berbers living in the
Atlas Mountains. They had long been at odds with the
Almoravids who then ruled Morocco and had been forced into exile in the mountains. Some time around
1117 he became a follower of
Ibn Tumart a religious leader of renowned piety who had founded the Almohads as a religious order with the goal of restoring purity in Islam. When ibn Tumart died in 1130 al-Mu'min became the leader of the movement, he forged it into a powerful military force and under him the Almohads swept down from the mountains destroying the power of the faltering Almovarids by 1147.
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