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al-Adil Abdallah al-Muwahhidi

العادل عبد الله الموحدي

c. 1224 CE · c. 621 AH

Abu Muhammad Abd Allah, son of the amir Ya'qub al-Mansur al-Muwahhidi, known as al-Adil. When Abd al-Wahid took power at Marrakesh he was in al-Andalus and held out at Murcia, believing himself more entitled to the command; he marched toward the Maghrib, endured hardships on the way, and fought his brother Abu al-Ala Idris, who had seized the command and styled himself al-Ma'mun 1.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Muwaffaq al-Din Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi · Abd al-Wahid al-Makhlu (the Deposed), Almohad · Abd al-Wahid II al-Ma'mun, Almohad · Abu al-Abbas al-Azafi · Abu al-Abbas al-Qurti

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Abu Muhammad 'Abdallah b. al-Amir Ya'qub al-Mansur the Almohad, called al-'Adil; when 'Abd al-Wahid ruled at Marrakesh he was in al-Andalus, held firm at Murcia and saw himself worthier of power — so he marched on the Maghrib, endured hardships on the way, and fought his brother Abu'l-'Ala' Idris who had taken sole command and taken the title al-Ma'mun. 1

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  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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