Abu Abd-Allah Muhammad al-Muntasir () was the

Hafsid The Hafsids ( ar, الحفصيون ) were a Sunni Muslim dynasty of Berber descentC. Magbaily Fyle, ''Introduction to the History of African Civilization: Precolonial Africa'', (University Press of America, 1999), 84. who ruled Ifriqiya (wester ...

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of Ifriqiya from 1434–1435.

Life

Abu Abd-Allah Muhammad al-Muntasir was the son of Abu Abdallah Muhammad al-Mansour and a Christian concubine from

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known as Rīm. His father was the son and heir apparent of

Abu Faris Abd al-Aziz II Abu Faris Abd al-Aziz II () (reigned 1394–1434) was a Hafsid Caliph of Ifriqiya. Life He proceeded to further consolidate the kingdom after his father Abu al-Abbas Ahmad II had restored its integrity. A strong monarch and an orthodox Musli ...

but he died before his father in 1430. Thereupon Abu Faris took the unusual step of declaring his grandson heir, when convention dictated that he choose another of his sons. Fighting quickly broke out between his uncles over the succession. Abu Abd-Allah captured his uncle al-Mu’tamid and had him blinded. He also had his own brother Abu-l Fadl arrested. While he was on a military expedition in the South two more Hafsid princes rebelled, Abu-Yahya Zakariya and his brother. They fled to

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but were lured back to Tunis with an offer of clemency before they too were apparently executed. Abu Abd-Allah himself died of illness while on campaign against rebel Bedouin in September 1435. During his brief reign he was responsible for the building of a public water fountain at

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and a

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named after him, also in Tunis. After his death disorder continued until all rebels were eventually subdued by his brother and successor

Abu 'Amr 'Uthman Abu 'Amr 'Uthman ( ar, أبو عمرو عثمان, Abū ʿAmr ʿUthmān; February 1419September 1488), regnal title al-Mutawakkil 'ala Allah ( ar, المتوكل على الله, al-Mutawakkil ʿala Allāh, "he who relies on God") was the Hafsid ...

References

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