Yahya ibn Ibrahim

Yahya ibn Ibrahim , Arabic يحيى بن إبراهيم, DMG Yaḥyā b. Ibrāhīm (d. 1048), was a leader of the Berber tribe of Judala in the 11th century . Together with Ibn Yasin he paved the way for the religious and militant movement of the Almoravids .

genealogy

Not much is known about Yahya ibn Ibrahim's young years and family relationships. He was a brother-in-law of Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Tifat (alias Tarsina), the tribal head of the Lamtuna , who tried to renew the covenant of Sanhādscha around 1035, but then died in 1038.

Life

In 1040 (possibly even earlier around 1035/1036) Yahya ibn Ibrahim went on a pilgrimage to Mecca . On his return he made a stopover in Kairouan , where he met Abu Imran al-Fasi from Fez , a legal scholar of the Sunni Malikites . He complained to him about the lack of religious education and ignorance of Islamic law among the southern Sanhajah. Abu Imran therefore recommended that he go to the Ribat des Waggag ibn Zelu (also Wajaj ibn Zalwi al-Lamti) in the Souss to look for a suitable Maliki teacher. When he arrived in southern Morocco with a letter of recommendation, Waggag passed him on to Abdallah ibn Yasin from the Jazzula (or Gazzula) tribe .

The two became friends and so Yahya bin Ibrahim Ibn Yasin invited in 1046 to begin teaching with the Judala. Ibn Yasin, however, was a religious zealot and strict follower of a Puritan Orthodox Sunnah , which over time met with increasing opposition from Yahya's tribesmen. When Yahya ibn Ibrahim died in 1048, Ibn Yasin was expelled from the Judala shortly afterwards or the latter, fearing for his life, preferred to flee. Ibn Yasin saved himself to the neighboring tribe of the Lamtuna, with whom he found a better reception and should have more success.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Levtzion, N. and Hopkins, JFP: Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History . Cambridge 1981.

predecessor	Office	successor
Abd Allah Ibn Yasin	Almoravid ruler (together with Abd Allah Ibn Yasin ) 1048	Abd Allah Ibn Yasin and Yahya ibn Umar