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Siege of Tlemcen by Abu Ya'qub the Marinid

حصار أبي يعقوب المريني لتلمسان

c. 1299 CE · c. 699 AH – c. 1307 CE · 707 AH

Tlemcen

The Marinid Abu Ya'qub besieged Tlemcen a hundred months behind the walls of his counter-city al-Mansura, and the Abd al-Wadids were near extinction when he died in 707 and his siege-city was razed 1.

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Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Maghreb
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In time

1290130013101320 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

In space

Tlemcen

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Overview

Ibn Khaldun relates that Abu Ya'qub Yusuf al-Marini besieged Tlemcen, held by the Banu Abd al-Wad, for a hundred months. 1

The siege

Abu Ya'qub built opposite the city a fully developed town, al-Mansura. The Banu Abd al-Wad were brought to the edge of destruction, as Ibn Khaldun describes it. 1

The end

The sultan Abu Ya'qub died at al-Mansura in 707 AH. The house of Yaghmurasan destroyed it when his battalions withdrew. 1

The beginning and end of the siege are converted by derivation from the phrase "a hundred months" and the year of death. 1

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Had participant
Abu Ya'qub Yusuf al-Marini
Occurred at
Tlemcen

People and things also explored

The Abu Ya'qub–al-Nasir Muhammad embassy exchange· the Sa'di attack on Tlemcen (963/1556)· Abu Zayyan Ahmad II· al-Hasan al-Zayyani· al-Mu'tadid, the Almohad· Messali Hadj· al-Mansura (Tlemcen)· Abu Ya'qub Yusuf al-Marini

Sources

  1. Kitab al-Ibar of Ibn Khaldun , p. 1938
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The Abu Ya'qub–al-Nasir Muhammad embassy exchange

When Abu Ya'qub's Marinid kingship ran steady and the roads mended, he licensed the Maghrebis' first sea-hajj in years for 703 — having a splendid mushaf transcribed by Ahmad ibn Hasan the master scribe, bound with gold clasps set in ordered pearls and rubies and endowed to the Sacred Mosque — sent with the pilgrims a Zanata guard near five hundred under qadi Muhammad ibn Raghbush, and a gift of Barb horses and four hundred rare mounts to al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qalawun; the Egyptian sultan, pleased, gathered marvels of his lands — garments, an elephant and a giraffe — and sent them by Amir al-Tilili, leaving Cairo at the end of 705 and reaching the sultan's court at the Mansura of Fes Jdid in Jumada II 706, and the sultan rejoiced at their coming and mounted.