Abu Al-Hassan Ben Uthman

Abû Al-Hassan `Alî (أبوالحسنعليبنعثمان abū Al-ḥasan `alīy Ben `uθmān) was born in 1299 or 1288. Abû Al-Hassan succeeded her father Abû His `îd `Uthmân in 1331 like sultan Mérinide. He died in 1351.

History

With an aim of driving out the Christians of Spain and of linking the Islamic countries of North Africa, it attacked and captured Algeciras and Gibraltar in 1333.

It was to take into account his rebellious brother who held the Saharan slope of the Atlas in the valley of Dra `with like capital Sijilmâsa. It came to end from this problem what enabled him to consider the conquest of territories more in the east. It took with the Abdalwadides the town of Tlemcen after a three year old seat in 1337.

It gained on April 5th, 1340 a naval battle in the Straits of Gibraltar, but undergoes a defeat later six months with the battle of Rio Salado forcing it to give up its sights on Spain.

Although he was married with the girl of the sultan Hafside Abû Yahyâ Abû Bakr, he taken Tunis on September 15th, 1347, but ran up against Arabic with Kairouan.

Fleeing Tunisia by the sea, it unloaded in Algeria and was confronted with a rebellion led by his son Abu Inan Faris; given up by its troops, he abdicated and folded up himself until the south of Morocco in the Atlas where he died of an infected wound on May 24th, 1351.

Its reign is the apogee of the Moroccan dynasty of Mérinides.

Source

Charles-Andre Julien, History of North Africa of the origins with 1830 , original edition 1931, Payot republication, Paris, 1994.
" Abu Al-Hassan 'Ali." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2006. Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service
www.hukam.net, {{Lang|RTL|rear| المرينيون/بنومرين/بنوعبدالحق}} Mérinides/Marine Banû/Banû `Abd Al-Haqq

See too

Dynasty Mérinide

Random links: