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Biography of Abdullah ibn Yasin
Name: Abdullah ibn Yasin
Birth Date: N/A
Death Date: 1059
Place of Birth: N/A
Nationality: Moroccan
Gender: Male
Occupations: religious leader
Abdullah ibn Yasin
The North African religious leader Abdullah ibn Yasin (died 1059) was the founder and spiritual leader of the Moslem Almoravid movement.Little is known of the life of Abdullah ibn Yasin until he stepped into North African history about 1050 as a missionary to the Sanhaja Berbers of the western Sahara. Himself a Berber, Ibn Yasin had been trained in the Maliki school of jurisprudence. He was living in the town of Nafis in the Moroccan High Atlas when he was invited by two Sanhaja leaders to instruct the Berber tribesmen of the Sahara in the true principles of Islam. Ibn Yasin proved to be a stern disciplinarian in the Maliki tradition, insisting that the Berbers abide by the letter of Moslem law in such matters as marriage, taxation, and punishment of criminals. Rather than give up their traditional practices, the Berbers denounced Ibn Yasin and his preaching.Discouraged by this failure, …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…a group of religious scholars had complained to Ibn Yasin that they were being persecuted by the ruler of the city. Tribal feelings were probably involved too, since the Berbers ruling the city belonged to the Zenata confederation while the Almoravids were Sanhaja. Finally, the fact that large amounts of booty were taken indicates the possibility that economic factors were involved. Northward expansion was continued in subsequent years into the cities of southern and central Morocco, in all of which Ibn Yasin attempted to impose the Maliki code of Islamic law. Thus, before his death in battle in 1059, he had created a base for the military expansion of the Almoravid empire into North Africa and Spain and laid down the guidelines by which it was to be governed. Further Reading In the absence of any detailed biographical study of Ibn Yasin see Henri Terrasse, History of Morocco (2 vols., 1949-1950; trans., 1 vol., 1952).
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