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al-Mustansir Yusuf al-Muwahhidi

المستنصر يوسف الموحدي

c. 1223 CE · 620 AH

Abu Ya'qub Yusuf ibn Muhammad ibn Amir Ya'qub al-Mansur al-Muwahhidi, called al-Mustansir. He succeeded his father al-Nasir; he was a young man fond of his ease. At his death, because his uncle was of advanced age, the state gave its allegiance to his uncle Abd al-Wahid ibn Yusuf ibn Abd al-Mu'min 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 · Abu al-Abbas al-Azafi · Abu al-Abbas al-Qurti · Abu al-Hajjaj al-Biyasi · Abu al-Mahasin al-Shawwa

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Abu Ya'qub Yusuf b. Muhammad b. the amir Ya'qub al-Mansur the Almohad, surnamed al-Mustansir; he held the caliphate after his father al-Nasir — a youth doting on his ease — and on his death the state chanced to swear to his uncle 'Abd al-Wahid b. Yusuf b. 'Abd al-Mu'min for his age. 1

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