Ibn Tumart succeeded to set the scene for reformism in Islamic world by his ideas and thoughts. He was a spiritual and intellectual leader who had a dream for the Islamic World though this dream was mostly built upon a Eutopian view of life and many things stood in clear ocnflict withthe realities on the ground. Anyway, he created a movement that left its impact in history. As for the secular task, the immediately following years were passed in the consolidation of the Almohad power. And with the death of Ibn Tümart in 524/1130, the administrative and military genius Abd al-Mumin, who had been recognized as the executive leader of the movement, was able to defeat their enemies to such an extent that by A.D. 1140 he and his men reached the Mediterranean in the region of Oran. Ten years later they had swept away the small dynasties which had established themselves in eastern Algeria on the ruins of the Almoravid state. At its height it was an empire extending from Marrakesh and Fez in the Marrocean West to Tunisia and Tripolitania in the East. As a final remark it may be added that when, after the death of Ibn Tumart, the emphasis was more and more given to the aspect o f expansion of the territorial state, the Islamic ideology, so prom inent during the time of Ibn Tumart, was increasingly losing ground.
Ibn Tumart and the Almohad Movement
