Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd Al-Haqq
| Abu Yusuf Yaqub | |||||
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| Sultan of Morocco Amīr al-Muslimīn |
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| Reign | 1259 – 1286 | ||||
| Born | (unknown) | ||||
| Died | Algeciras, 1286 | ||||
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| Dynasty | Banū Marīn | ||||
| Father | ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Miḥyū ibn Abi Bakr ibn Hamama | ||||
| Mother | Oum el Youm, daughter of a clan leader of the Tafersit region | ||||
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| Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Marīni |
Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd al-Haqq (أَبُو يُوسُف يَعقُوب بن عَبد الحَقّ abū yūsuf ya`qūb ben `abd al-ḥaqq) (?-20 March 1286) was a Marinid ruler of Morocco. He was the fourth son of Marinid founder Abd al-Haqq, and succeeded his brother Abu Yahya in 1258. He died in 1286.
The Marinids had been fighting the Almohads for supremacy over Morocco since the 1210s. At the time of Abu Yahya's death in July, 1258, the Marinids were installed in Fez and controlled eastern and northern Morocco, the Almohads reduced to the southerly districts around their capital, Marrakech. Although Abu Yahya had designated his son as successor in Fez, Abu Yusuf Yaqub, then a governor in Taza, managed, with only a little difficulty, to displace his nephew and get himself acknowledged as emir of the Marinids.
In September, 1260, in a surprise attack, a Christian naval force from Spain, probably Castilian, landed on the Atlantic coast of Morocco and seized the city of Salé. Abu Yusuf retook the city after a fourteen-day siege. It was the first known direct encounter between the Marinids and the Christian powers of the Iberian peninsula. Abu Yusuf decided against a retaliatory raid, and instead focused on reducing the Almohad resistance in the south.
In 1262, Abu Yusuf laid siege to the Almohad capital of Marrakech, but his attempt to assault the city faltered. Changing tactics, he decided to sponsor the rebellious Almohad chieftain Abu Dabbus in his struggle against his cousin, the Almohad caliph Abu Hafs Umar al-Murtada. But once Abu Dabbus seized Marrakech in 1266, he broke his treaty with the Marinids and refused to pass Marrakech over to them. Instead, Abu Dabbus persuaded the Abdalwadid ruler Yaghmorassan of the Kingdom of Tlemcen to launch an incursion into Marinid land from the northeast. Abu Yusuf broke off his campaign against the errant Almohad client to deal with the Tlemcen intervention, defeating the Abdalwadids at a battle by the Moulouya in 1268.
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