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Banu Abd al-Wad

بنو عبد الواد

The Zanata dynasty of the central Maghreb; Yaghmurasan b. Ziyyan besieged Tlemcen eight years then took it as al-Mu'tadid, and his house ruled between the Marinids and Hafsids until their trace faded 1.

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Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Maghreb
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Overview

A Zanata state in the central Maghrib, founded by Yaghmurasan ibn Zayyan in Tlemcen. 1

Founding

Yaghmurasan besieged Tlemcen for eight years, then entered it and took the name al-Mu'tadid. 1

After Yaghmurasan

Their state continued after him between the Marinids in the Maghrib and the Hafsids in Ifriqiya, until their trace disappeared. 1

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Founded by
يغمراسن بن زيان بن ثابت

People and things also explored

Uthman ibn Yaghmurasan ibn Zayyan· يغمراسن بن زيان بن ثابت

Sources

  1. Kitab al-Ibar of Ibn Khaldun , p. 1707
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Uthman ibn Yaghmurasan ibn Zayyan

Uthman ibn Yaghmurasan ibn Zayyan, second of the Banu Abd al-Wad kings; when his father died at the end of Dhu'l-Qa'da 682 returning from Ténès, he met the bier at Sik, concealed the death to Tlemcen and took the bay'a of elite and commons, writing to the Hafsid al-Mustansir's line for investiture — his father's counsel, per Ibn Khaldun's shaykh al-Ayili quoting Abu Hammu Musa, being never to trust meeting the Marinids in open field but to lean on the walls; he held Tlemcen against Yusuf ibn Ya'qub's 698 siege with Abu Zakariya's aid, the Almohad column broken at Jabal al-Zab in the battle of Marsa al-Ru'us, and erased the Hafsid name from Tlemcen's minbars.