Tnine Aglou is a small town and rural commune in

Tiznit Province Tiznit () is a province in the Moroccan economic region of Souss-Massa. Its population in 2004 was 344,831. The major cities and towns are: * Tafraout * Tiznit Subdivisions The province is divided administratively into the following municipalit ...

of the

Souss-Massa-Drâa Souss-Massa-Drâa () was formerly one of the sixteen regions of Morocco from 1997 to 2015. It covered an area of 70,880 km2 and had a population of 3,601,917 (2014 census). The capital is Agadir. One of the major languages spoken in this regi ...

region of

Morocco Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...

. At the time of the 2004 census, the commune had a total population of 14,632 people living in 3,128 households. The town is home to, "Ribat al-Murabitin" one of Morocco's oldest

Ribat A ribāṭ (; hospice, hostel, base or retreat) is an Arabic term, initially designating a small fortification built along a frontier during the first years of the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb to house military volunteers, called ''murabitun' ...

s where the founder of the

Almoravid dynasty The Almoravid dynasty () was a Berber Muslim dynasty centered in the territory of present-day Morocco. It established an empire that stretched over the western Maghreb and Al-Andalus, starting in the 1050s and lasting until its fall to the Almo ...

Abdallah ibn Yasin ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yāsīn (; born in "Tamanart", died 7 July 1059 C.E. in "Krifla" near Rommani, present-day Morocco) was an Islamic theologian, spiritual leader and the founder of the Almoravid movement. Early life, education and career Abdalla ...

studied under

Waggag ibn Zallu al-Lamti Waggag ibn Zallu al-Lamti () (died 11th-century in Aglu near Tiznit, present-day Morocco) was a maghrebi Maliki scholar and jurist who lived in the 11th century. He was a disciple of Abu Imran al-Fasi and belonged to the Lamta clan, which is a S ...

who was buried there.

References

Rural communes of Souss-Massa Populated places in Tiznit Province {{SoussMassaDrâa-geo-stub