Abu Bakr ibn Umar (Person) AKA أبو بكر بن عمر
Abu Bakr ibn Umar
1056 AD - 1087 AD
AKA أبو بكر بن عمر
Amir of the Almoravids 1056 – 1087
Abu Bakr ibn Umar ibn Ibrahim ibn Turgut, sometimes suffixed al-Sanhaji or al-Lamtuni was a chieftain of the Lamtuna Berber Tribe and Amir of the Almoravids from 1056 until his death.
He is credited to have founded the Moroccan city of Marrakesh, and under his rule the heretic Barghawatas were destroyed.
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 (murabitūn) movement in the early 1040s.
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