Until 11th century
Sahara, Adrar, and Tagant
The campaigns of Abū Bakr ibn ʿUmar against Sudanese groups formed the military core of the southern Almoravid movement described in these pages. Operations were associated with Azukki in Adrar and with warfare in Tagant, where Abū Bakr was killed. The source also preserves Mauritanian oral traditions attributing the expulsion of Sudanese groups from the Sahara to him.
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The Story
After Ibn Tāshfīn blocked Abū Bakr’s return to leadership in the Maghrib, Abū Bakr went back to the desert and led the southern wing of the Almoravids in jihad against Sudanese groups. His campaigns connected the movement’s Saharan base with the western Sudan and became, in the author’s interpretation, the principal channel through which Almoravid influence affected the history of Ghana.
Azukki appears as the operational base of this southern Almoravid activity. The fortress stood in Jabal Lamṭūna, or Adrar, and lay on a route connecting Sijilmāsa with the Sudan. The narrative also recalls earlier fighting around the town: Yahyā ibn ʿUmar was besieged and killed there by the Juddāla in 1056.
The struggle continued across the desert and Sahel. Tarešnā, a Lamṭūna chief in the first half of the eleventh century, was killed fighting a Sudanese tribe west of Banklābīn near Waran in Adrar. Abū Bakr himself was killed in war against the Sudanese in Tagant, where a grave was shown south of Tijikja.
Until 11th century
Sahara, Adrar, and Tagant
The campaigns of Abū Bakr ibn ʿUmar against Sudanese groups formed the military core of the southern Almoravid movement described in these pages. Operations were associated with Azukki in Adrar and with warfare in Tagant, where Abū Bakr was killed. The source also preserves Mauritanian oral traditions attributing the expulsion of Sudanese groups from the Sahara to him.
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The Story
After Ibn Tāshfīn blocked Abū Bakr’s return to leadership in the Maghrib, Abū Bakr went back to the desert and led the southern wing of the Almoravids in jihad against Sudanese groups. His campaigns connected the movement’s Saharan base with the western Sudan and became, in the author’s interpretation, the principal channel through which Almoravid influence affected the history of Ghana.
Azukki appears as the operational base of this southern Almoravid activity. The fortress stood in Jabal Lamṭūna, or Adrar, and lay on a route connecting Sijilmāsa with the Sudan. The narrative also recalls earlier fighting around the town: Yahyā ibn ʿUmar was besieged and killed there by the Juddāla in 1056.
The struggle continued across the desert and Sahel. Tarešnā, a Lamṭūna chief in the first half of the eleventh century, was killed fighting a Sudanese tribe west of Banklābīn near Waran in Adrar. Abū Bakr himself was killed in war against the Sudanese in Tagant, where a grave was shown south of Tijikja.
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