RT Journal Article
T1 Peregrination and Ceremonial in the Almohad Mosque of Tinmal
A1 Calvo Capilla, Susana
AB The Tinmal mosque was built by the first Almohad caliph, ʿAbd al-Muʾmin, around 1148 next to the tomb of the mahdī Ibn Tūmart, the founder of the Almohad creed (d. 1130). The official pilgrimages (ziyāra) to Tinmal became important ideological actions of the Almohad caliphs. The religious significance and the unique architectural features of the Tinmal mosque (like the minaret’s location) but also common features with other Almohad mosques (like the orientation of the qibla) can be best explained as related with the Almohad doctrine or ʿaqīda, based on a return to the Prophet’s model and to the origins of Islam. It is in this sense that the mosque and the tomb were used to legitimatizethe Almohad caliphate as a new Hijaz. Two holy copies of the Qurʾan, one renowned as an ʿUthmān’s muṣḥaf and another one of Ibn Tūmart, were relics preserved somewhere inside the mosque of Tinmal.
PB Ludwig Reichert Verlag
SN 1866-8550
SN 1866-8550
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/123441
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/123441
LA eng
NO Susana Calvo Capilla. «Peregrination and Ceremonial in the Almohad Mosque of Tinmal». Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie, 2020, pp. 81-105, https://doi.org/10.29091/9783954906789.
NO Plan Nacional de Investigación Científica
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
DS Docta Complutense
RD 17 dic 2025