Tamima bint Yusuf

Tamima bint Yusuf ibn Tashfin (Arabic: تميمة بنت يوسف بن تاشفين) was an Almoravid princess, she was a woman of letters and a political leader, who contributed to the development of the Almoravid movement. She was the daughter of Yusuf ibn Tashfin (r.1060-1106) and his wife Zaynab an-Nafzawiyyah, and the full-blooded sister of her father's successor Ali ibn Yusuf (r.1106-1142).

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