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al-Murtada Umar al-Muwahhidi

المرتضى عمر الموحدي

c. 1266 CE · c. 665 AH

The Almohad caliph al-Murtada, who fled Marrakesh for Azemmour when Abu Dabus entered in 665, was seized by his own governor and killed at Kutama in the last ten days of Rabi' II 1.

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Roles
Caliph
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Maghreb
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abagha Khan · Abu Shama al-Dimashqi · Afif al-Din al-Tilimsani · Afif al-Din ibn Mazru' · Ahmad al-Badawi

Overview

Abu Hafs Umar ibn Abi Ibrahim ibn Yusuf, titled al-Murtada, an Almohad caliph. He was killed around 665 AH. 2

His end

Ibn Khallikan relates that he was installed in Rabi al-Akhir, before al-Wathiq Abu Dabbus entered Marrakesh in 665 AH. He fled to Azmur, where its governor seized him. Al-Wathiq ordered him killed, and he was killed in the last ten days of Rabi al-Akhir that year, at a place called Kutama, three days from Marrakesh. 2

Sources

  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan , p. 15-16
  2. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan , p.15-16
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