عبدالمؤمن بن علي .. كتاب مائة أوائل من تراثنا ، الكاتب عبد الهادي حرصوني

Abdelmoumen bin Ali

If Al-Mahdi bin Tumart was the doctrinal founder of the Almohad movement in Morocco, then Abd al-Mu’min bin Ali was the one who built the Almohad state and established its political and non-political edifice. Abd al-Mu’min was born at the end of the fifth century AH in the village of (Tajra) in the region of Tlemcen in present-day Algeria, and it seems that he lost his father in his childhood, so his uncle took care of him and decided to carry him to the East to seek knowledge. And he became the first of his helpers and the highest in status with him, and the Mahdi loved him and trusted him, and he used to say: (The matter in which the life of religion does not rise except with Abd al-Mu’min ibn Ali, the lamp of the monotheists). And when Al-Mahdi died in the year five hundred and twenty-four, the companions of Al-Mahdi introduced him and swore allegiance to him as an imam, and they gave him the title of caliph and called him the Commander of the Faithful, although he was not of Quraish descent, but because of his succession to the Mahdi. And when Abd al-Mu’min took charge of the matter, he was able to enter the state of Marrakech and remove the state of the Almoravids from existence, and after that he seized the cities of Al-Aqsa Morocco one after the other, then he occupied the countries of the Middle Maghreb and went to the city of Mahdia, so he liberated it from the Norman occupation of it as he occupied the other cities of Tunisia, and thus united Abd al-Mu’min countries The Arab Maghreb under one banner, then turned to
The affairs of Andalusia were secured for them with adequate protection, care, and immunity. After Abd al-Mu’min achieved military and political victories, he saw that his ideological state would not survive and succeed in implementing its programmes, if it was managed by tribal leaders from Masmuda and others. He gathers about three thousand from the class of preservation, which is the fifth class in the hierarchy of Al-Mahdi’s organizations for his followers, so he entered them into his palace and ordered them to teach them the books of Al-Mahdi bin Tumart, especially my book (Al-Muwatta’ and the dearest thing to seek), then he began to take them (one day by teaching riding, and one day by shooting with a bow, and one day by hovering in a lake he made outside His orchard is a square, the length of which is about three hundred square meters, and one day he takes them to put them on boats and canoes that he made for them in that lake, so they behaved with this politeness, sometimes with giving, and sometimes with politeness, and their spending and all their supplies were from him, and their horses and their equipment as well. They have the sheikhs who are steadfast in the mandate of business and presidency, and he said: The scholars are more worthy than you, so surrender to them, and keep them with them in counseling).

Abd al-Mu’min’s experience was a pioneering experience, and there is no doubt that its impact was great and helped the continuation of the Almohad state, and its administration was representative of Abd al-Mu’min and his family after him, remembering that the strength of this state was the Masmuda tribes that inhabited beyond the Saharan Atlas, and that Abd al-Mu’min was one of the people of Morocco Middle

The achievements made by Abd al-Mu’min are very great, and the most important thing that attracts attention is the scientific and rational side’s control over its plans and implementation works.
From Ramesj, when Abd al-Mu’min occupied the city of Marrakesh, he built a palace and a mosque next to it, and when Abd al-Mu’min completed its construction, he made two tunnels in it, entering from the palace to them, and from them to the mosque, so that no one could see it, and he moved to it a great pulpit that had been made in Andalusia with the utmost perfection Its pieces are a red and yellow oud and sandal, and its plates are made of gold and silver. He made a booth of wood with one year of ribs, which can accommodate more than a thousand men, and the one in charge of making its exit was a man from the people of Malacca called Al-Hajj Ba’ish.

The era of Abd al-Mu'min witnessed a great architectural movement, and the mechanical and technical side made remarkable strides. In his days, Arab engineers created a large number of self-propelled machines.

And how this maqsura is that it was placed on geometric movements, raised by it for his exit and lowered for his entry, and that was made to the right of the mihrab, a door inside which the movements of the maqsura and the minbar circulated. The door of the pulpit was blocked, so if the preacher got up to look at it, the door would open and the pulpit would leave all at once with one movement, and he would not be heard by feeling, and his arrangement would not be seen. its ribs in

The economic and agricultural aspect was also growing with Abd al-Mu’min, and one of his contemporaries mentions one of his projects, saying: (And the caliph Abd al-Mu’min planted a garden outside Marrakech, three miles long and wide, close to it, in which every fruit that people desire, and he brought water to it from clouds, and drew many eyes).