Tashfin ibn Ali (died 23 March 1145, or 25 March 1145 CE;

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: تاشفين بن علي ) was the 6th

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, he reigned in 1143–1145.

Biography

Tashfin ibn Ali was appointed Governor of

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and

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in 1129, as well as of Córdoba in 1131, during the reign of his father Ali ibn Yusuf.Extrait de la Chronique intitulée Kamel-Altevarykh par Ibn-Alatyr, RHC Historiens orientaux I, p. 413. He succeeded his father in 1143. In 1145, he went to fight the

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, under the leadership of

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, in the

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area. He was besieged for several days by the Almohad forces and finally opted for escaping by sea. He subsequently called on a fleet from Almeria, burned his military encampment and while trying to join the port by night on horseback, he fell off a cliff in the

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and died in March 1145. He was succeeded first by his son Ibrahim ibn Tashfin, who was still an infant, and soon after by his brother Ishaq ibn Ali.

References

1145 deaths Almoravid emirs Muslims of the 1113–1115 Balearic Islands expedition People from Marrakesh 12th-century Moroccan people Year of birth unknown Deaths by horse-riding accident 12th-century Berber people {{Al-Andalus-bio-stub