Yahya al-Mu'tasim

Yahya al-Mu`tasim ( ar, أبو زكرياء المعتصم يحي بن الناصر; ''Abū Zakarīyā' Al-Mu`taṣim Yaḥyā ibn An-Nāṣir''; died 1236) was an Almohad rival caliph who reigned from 1227 to 1229. He was a son of Muhammad al-Nasir''Yahya al-Mutasim''
/ref> and brother of Yusuf II, Almohad caliph.

Life

At the death of his uncle Abdallah al-Adil, Yahya was supported by the sheikhs of Marrakesh, but two years later he was turned down by another pretender, his other uncle Idris al-Ma'mun. At the latter's death in 1232, Yahya renewed his pretenses, but his cousin Abd al-Wahid II was preferred to him. He was anyway able to keep Marrakesh until his death in 1236, after which the Almohad territories were again united under Abd al-Wahid.

Sources

*Charles-André Julien. ''Histoire de l‘Afrique du Nord, des origines à 1830''.

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1236 deaths
13th-century Almohad caliphs
People from Marrakesh
13th-century Berber people
Year of birth unknown