Idris bin Idris ( ar, إدريس بن إدريس) known as Idris II ( ar, إدريس الثاني) (August 791 – August 828), was the son of
Idris I
Idris (I) ibn Abd Allah ( ar, إدريس بن عبد الله, translit=Idrīs ibn ʿAbd Allāh), also known as Idris the Elder ( ar, إدريس الأكبر, translit=Idrīs al-Akbar), (d. 791) was an Arab Hasanid Sharif and the founder of the ...
, the founder of the
Idrisid dynasty in
Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to A ...
. He was born in
Walīlī two months after the death of his father. He succeeded his father Idris I in 803.
Biography
Idris II was born on August 791, two months after the death—June 791—of Idris I. His mother was Kenza, his father's wife and the daughter of the Awraba tribe chieftain, Ishaq ibn Mohammed al-Awarbi. He was raised among the Berber Awraba tribe of
Volubilis. In 803, he was proclaimed ''Imam'' in the mosque of Walila succeeding his father.
Of the Idrisid sultans Idris II was one of the best educated. In the work of
Ibn al-Abbar, correspondence between Idris II and his contemporary
Ibrahim I ibn al-Aghlab
Ibrahim I ibn al-Aghlab ( ar, إبراهيم بن الأغلب; 756–812) was the first Emir of the Ifriqiya from Aghlabid family (800-812).
Origin and early career
He was the son of al-Aghlab, a Khurasani who had been a companion of Abu Musli ...
is quoted in which he invites him to renounce his claims to his territories.
By the end of Idris II's reign, the Idrisid kingdom included the area between the
Shalif river in modern-day
Algeria
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and the
Sus in southern
Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to A ...
.
Idris II died in
Volubilis in 828. His grave is contained in the
Zawiyya Moulay Idris in
Fez. It was rediscovered under the
Marinid Sultan
Abd al-Haqq II
Abd al-Haqq II () (Abd al-Haqq ibn Uthman Abu Muhammad; 1419 – 14 August 1465) was Marinid Sultan of Morocco from 1420 to 1465.
Life
Abd al-Haqq II was made sultan in 1420 under the regency of a Wattasid ''vizier'', and later was nominal ...
(1420–1465) in 1437, and became an important place of pilgrimage in the 15th century. It is, up till the present, considered the holiest place of
Fez.
References
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791 births
828 deaths
9th-century Arabs
Idrisid dynasty
People from Fez, Morocco
Sultans of Morocco
Moroccan letter writers
Moroccan Shia Muslims
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9th-century monarchs in Africa
Zaydi imams
9th-century Moroccan people
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