Ibn Tumart founds the Almohad movement
1121
The Berber theologian Ibn Tumart returned from the Middle East to his Atlas homeland, proclaimed himself Mahdi, and began preaching a puritanical reform of what he called the lax Almoravid court. He gathered mountain tribes around a doctrine of radical divine unity - tawhid - that gave his movement its name.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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