Almohad Qur’ans العربية
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The Tinmal rabʿa

La rabʿa de Tinmal · ربعة تينمل

632 AH (copied) · 649 AH (endowed) · 1235 CE · 1251 CE

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Opening of Surat Sad
Opening of Surat Sad · Ibn Yusuf 429, after Bongianino 2024, fig. 1 · AI-enhanced
SurvivesIncompleteNot digitised
Place
Seville
Endowment
Endowed by al-Murtada to the tomb of the Mahdi Ibn Tumart at Tinmal on Friday 16 Ramadan 649 AH
Today
Marrakesh, Ibn Yusuf Library ms. 429
What survives
Volume 16 of a set of twenty

The only surviving object that can be linked with certainty to the shrine of Tinmal. The endowment deed stands at the head of the volume, marked with the Almohad motto «والحمد لله وحده», “Praise be to God alone”.

It was copied in Seville in 632 AH, when the city was ruled by Ibn Hud, who had rebelled against the Almohads. It is therefore not an Almohad work, and became one only through its endowment. The sources do not name its copyist.

Bongianino on the re-endowments (2024)
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Opening of Surat Sad
Opening of Surat Sad · Ibn Yusuf 429, after Bongianino 2024, fig. 1 · AI-enhanced
The endowment note for Tinmal
The endowment note for Tinmal · Ibn Yusuf 429, after Bongianino 2024, fig. 1 · AI-enhanced
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