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Ibn Tūmart was now dead and finding a replacement for a man with his strong personality was no easy task. It has been established that the decisions about his successor were made by a very few individuals at the time of the announcement of the Mahdī’s death, and were published only when they felt certain that no difficulties would arise. Whether it was a few days, a few months, or a few years after the event, remains quite uncertain. Ibn Tūmart’s successor was one of his first disciples, ‘Abd al-Mū’min ibn ‘Alī whom he met at Mellāla when he was

A chief who would be able to restore it to its previous strength was a prime necessity for this empire that was beginning to falter. Unfortunately the fifth Almohad caliph, Yūsuf al-Mustanṣir, was not a strong or talented leader. He was recognized as a weak sovereign the very day of his father’s death at the end of the year 1213. He was a young man of sixteen at most, perhaps only a boy of ten—our information is not sound on this point¹—fond of pleasure (if we can trust certain chroniclers), who almost never left Marrakesh, probably because he

Probably during the year 1118—the chronology of these events is not very precise¹—a Berber from southern Morocco, having left the Near East where he had spent years as a student in close contact with many distinguished scholars and philosophers, disembarked at Mahdiya in Ifrīqiya. Muhammad ibn ‘Abd Allah Ibn Tūmart was returning to his fatherland full of new ideas and convinced that he had the mission of reforming Islam in the Maghrib. He was to initiate one of the most important ideological and political movements ever seen in that area, the movement of the unitarians,al-muwaḥḥidūn. Ibn Tūmart

In the fall of 1959 I gave three public lectures on the Almohad movement as part of the Class of 1932 Lectureship at Princeton University. Later, Professor T. Cuyler Young, Chairman of the Department of Oriental Languages at Princeton, asked me to prepare these lectures for publication. This allowed me to develop the subject further and to present it in a more scholarly way. It is very gratifying to acknowledge here the kindness of Professor Young and the generosity of Princeton University. I want to add that Professor Bayly Winder, Mrs. Edward Sullivan, and Mrs. T. Cuyler Young were kind