Abd al-Wadid (Zayyanid) kingdom of Tlemcen

The Banu Abd al-Wad state of the Zanata in Tlemcen, founded by Yaghmurasan ibn Zayyan after he took the city. They ruled the central Maghrib between the Banu Marin and the Hafsids, until the Marinids entered Tlemcen and their state ended. ¹

Yaghmurasan besieged Tlemcen for eight years and then took it. The data put this in 635 AH (1236 CE), a derived year. ¹

Ibn Khaldun reports that a claim of descent from Idris was brought to Yaghmurasan, and he said in their tongue something to the effect that if it was true it would benefit us before God, but that as for this world, we obtained it by our swords. ¹

The Banu Marin overcame Tlemcen and the king of the Banu Abd al-Wad was defeated. The data put this in 737 AH (1337 CE). The year is derived and disputed, and the matter needs a second source. ¹

The Encyclopaedia of Islam (2nd ed.) entry "Zayyanids" (Banu Zayyan, also 'Abd al-Wadids) describes a Berber dynasty of the Zanata that ruled from Tlemcen from the first half of the seventh/thirteenth century to the middle of the tenth/sixteenth century. Its founder Yaghmurasan b. Zayyan led the family from 633/1236 for some 48 years, and the Marinids besieged Tlemcen for eight years (698-706/1298-1306), building the camp-town of al-Mansura. Tlemcen fell to the Marinids in 737/1337, was freed in 749/1348, was lost again in 753/1352 and regained in 760/1359. Under the Hafsids the kingdom became a vassal state; the Spaniards took Oran in 915/1509, the Turks of Algiers took Tlemcen in 923/1517, and the Sa'dids and Turks disputed it until 957/1550. ²