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al-Mu'tadid Yahya al-Muwahhidi

المعتضد يحيى الموحدي

c. 1224 CE · c. 621 AH

Abu Zakariyya Yahya ibn al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Muwahhidi, titled al-Mu'tadid. The people of Marrakesh chose him as caliph after Abd al-Wahid al-Makhlu' had been deposed. Within a few days Abu al-'Ala Idris claimed the caliphate at Seville and the people of al-Andalus pledged allegiance to him; Yahya besieged him in Marrakesh, but then his companions were routed, and the people of the city, regarding him as ill-omened, expelled him. He sought protection among a people in a fort in the direction of Tlemcen, and a young man of theirs, who held a vendetta against him over his father, stabbed him and killed him 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 Zakariyya Yahya b. al-Nasir Muhammad b. Ya'qub the Almohad, surnamed al-Mu'tadid; the people of Marrakesh chose him for the caliphate after the deposed 'Abd al-Wahid — within days Abu'l-'Ala' Idris claimed the caliphate at Seville and al-Andalus swore to him; Yahya besieged him at Marrakesh, then his men broke and the townspeople drove him out, deeming him ill-omened; he sought refuge with a people in a fort near Tlemcen — a mamluk of theirs who held a blood-feud against his father stabbed and killed him. 1

Sources

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