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Abu Bakr ibn Umar
Abu Bakr ibn Umar was an Almoravid leader of the Lamtuna Berbers in the eleventh century. After leaving northern operations to his cousin Yusuf ibn Tashfin, he returned to the Sahara and campaigned in the south. He is associated with Almoravid pressure on the Ghana Empire and with spreading the movement's influence in the western Sahel.
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