| Title Orig: | أَعَزُّ مَا يُطْلَب |
| Orig Lang Code: | ar |
| Country: | Almohad Caliphate |
| Language: | Arabic |
| Subject: | hadith, fiqh, usūl ad-din, tawhid, politics, jihad, reform |
| Genre: | Manifesto, Aqidah |
Aʿazzu Mā Yuṭlab, also known as al-ʿAqīda,[1] is a 12th-century book containing the teachings of Ibn Tumart, self-proclaimed mahdi and founder of the Almohad Caliphate.[2] According to the text of the book itself, it was compiled by a scribe to whom Abd al-Mu'min dictated his notes from Ibn Tumart's teachings.[3] [4]
Aʿazzu Mā Yuṭlab contains a variety of topics, commentaries, summaries, and essays representing the foundation Ibn Tumart's movement. It deals with hadith, fiqh, usūl ad-din, tawhid, politics, jihad, calls for reform, and promoting beneficence and discouraging maleficence.
At the basis of Ibn Tumart's message and teachings is the concept of "tawhid," from which the Almohads got their name: al-muwaḥḥidūn .[5]
al-ʿAqīda was translated into Latin by the deacon Mark of Toledo in 606/1209–10, after Almohad military successes in al-Andalus, especially the Battle of Alarcos.
The Hungarian Orientalist Ignác Goldziher studied the book and published an introduction to an edition published in occupied Algeria in 1903.[6]
The original text is preserved in two manuscript copies, dated 579/1183 and 595/1199.