Murabitun World Movement

The Murabitun World Movement is an Islamic movement founded by its current leader, Abdalqadir as-Sufi (born as Ian Dallas), with communities in countries all over the world. Its heartland is Spain. The number of its followers may amount, according to one estimate, to around 10,000.

The movement's objectives include the restoration of Zakat, Da’wa and the practice of bayat (allegiance) to an amir. It considers itself a tariqa in the Darqawi-Shadhili-Qadiri Tariqa tradition.

The name Murabitun derives from the Almoravid dynasty. The founder of the Murabitun World Movement is Abdalqadir as-Sufi (a convert to Islam born Ian Dallas in Ayr, Scotland, in 1930). He met his first Shaykh, Muhammad ibn al-Habib in Meknes around 1968, and was made a muqaddem and given the title “As-Sufi”. Ibn al-Habib said to him, “You can stay here with me, and something might happen. But go to England and see what will happen,” and so he went to London and gathered a group of new British Muslims, returning to Morocco in 1970. He founded a learning centre in Bristol Gardens, London, in 1972, and another centre in Berkeley, California.

The leader of the movement, Abdalqadir as-Sufi, has travelled in Europe and America, held talks, and published works such as The Way of Muhammad and Islam Journal proposing that Islam could be understood, and entered, as the "completion of the Western intellectual and spiritual tradition". He also initiated translations into English of classical texts on Islamic law and Sufism, including The Muwatta of Imam Malik and the letters of Darqawi, published as The Darqawi Way.

In 1982 Abdalqadir as-Sufi held a series of talks in America which were to become the basis of his work, Root Islamic Education.

The political and social work of the Murabitun centres around the restoration of the “fallen pillar” of zakat, which, it is claimed, has been abandoned on several primary counts.

Principally:

As their authority for this position the Murabitun cite a wide range of sources, beginning with the Qur'anic injunction to take zakat, the Prophetic practice of zakat-taking, the well-known position of the Khalif Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, and the established practice among the world Muslim community which was until relatively recently the assessment and collection of zakat by the Leader and his collectors.

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