Abû Ya' qûb Yûsuf (abū yaʿqūb yūsuf Ben ʿabd Al-mūʾmin, rear RTL أبويعقوبيوسفبنعبدالمؤمن), died towards 1184. It is the second Caliph Almohade. It reigned with Marrakech. Succeeding his father `Abd Al-Mu' min, he was initially recognized like sovereign with Seville (1163) then in Marrakech. Cultivated sovereign, supported on a rupture with religious orthodoxy, Abu Yuqub Yusuf is sometimes called the “intellectual caliph” (Pierre Guichard).
History
Initially founded on a religious ideology the Almohade dynasty then became a hereditary dynasty with the profit of the family of `Abd Al-Mu' min. The viziers are generally sheiks Hafsides, sparing a kind of division of the capacity between the two groups Berbère S.Abû Ya' qûb Yûsuf takes again the war against the Christians of Andalusia, carried out by Ibn Mardanîch. This sum of money is killed by treason during the seat of Murcie (1172), its sons are put at the service of the winner. The Caliph extended his field on the west of Andalusia. But hardly it had finished stabilizing Andalusia that in Gafsa, a revolt is declared against the abuses the capacity Almohade (1180).
It makes build the mosque of Seville whose minaret reconverted later in bell-tower of cathedral names the Giralda (wind vane). It made strike a new dinar with its effigy. It also made begin work of the immense Al-Hassan mosque of Rabat. This mosque remained unfinished, undoubtedly because the project was too ambitious. It is under its reign that Averroès author Of the decisive treaty lived on the compatibility of science and the faith (1178).
Abû Ya' qûb Yûsuf was mortally wounded with the combat against the town of Santarém to the Portugal (1184).
It had three principal Vizier S:
- Abû `Abd Allah (1166-1172) (abū ʿabd allah Ben ibrāhīm, rear RTL أبوعبداللهبنإبراهيم)
- Abû `Amarân (1173-1176) (abū ʿimrān Ben `abd Al-mūʾmin, rear RTL أبوعمرانبنعبدالمؤمن)
- Abû Hafs (1176-1179) (abū ḥafṣ Ben ʿabd Al-mūʾmin, rear RTL أبوحفصبنعبدالمؤمن))
Sources
- Charles-Andre Julien, History of, origin North Africa with 1830 , original edition 1931, Payot republication, Paris, 1994
External bond
- Hukan in Arabic
See too
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