al-Ma'mun's repudiation of the Almohad creed

خلع المأمون دعوة الموحدين

1229 CE · 626 AH

In 626 AH the caliph al-Ma'mun entered Marrakesh, arraigned the Almohad shaykhs and killed a hundred notables, then ordered Ibn Tumart's name struck from coinage and khutba and cursed in the Berber call to prayer, added «أصبح والحمد لله» to the dawn adhan, licensed a church in Marrakesh, and expelled the Muwahhidun from al-Andalus where the populace killed them — a repudiation reversed only when his son al-Rashid repurchased the shaykhs' allegiance by restoring the Mahdi's rites.

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The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
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Maghreb · al-Andalus & Europe
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Overview

In 626 AH the caliph al-Ma'mun ibn al-Mansur entered Marrakesh and announced that he was abandoning the mission (da'wa) of the Almohads. Ibn Khaldun reports that he summoned the elders of the Almohads, enumerated their deeds to them, and killed a hundred of their notables. 1

What he ordered

  • Erasing the name of the Mahdi Ibn Tumart from the coinage and the sermon, and denouncing him in the call to prayer in the Berber language.
  • Adding the phrase "asbaha wa-l-hamdu lillah" ("morning has come, and praise be to God") to the dawn call to prayer.
  • Permission for the Christians who had come with him to build a church in Marrakesh.
  • Expelling the Almohads from al-Andalus. Ibn Khaldun says that the common people killed them in every region.

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After him

The source says that the forms of the mission were restored only after him, through his son al-Rashid, on condition of the elders of Tinmallal. 1

Note

The Gregorian date is derived. It needs an additional source.

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al-Ma'mun ibn al-Mansur al-Muwahhidi· الموحدون

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al-Rashid ibn al-Ma'mun al-Muwahhidi· Almohad Caliphate· الموحدون· al-Ma'mun ibn al-Mansur al-Muwahhidi

Sources

  1. Kitab al-Ibar of Ibn Khaldun, p.1684-1685
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al-Rashid ibn al-Ma'mun al-Muwahhidi

Abd al-Wahid ibn al-Ma'mun, titled al-Rashid; acclaimed after his father's death in 630 AH, he defeated Yahya ibn al-Nasir and entered Marrakesh, restoring at the Almohad shaykhs' condition the Mahdi rites his father had erased, and contrived the killing of the Arab commander Mas'ud ibn Humaydan, ruling until his death in 640 AH.