Abu Tashufin I (Arabic : أبو تاشفين ابن أبو حمو موسى الأول; Abu Tashufin Abd al Rahman ibn Abu Musa Al-awal), was a
Sultan of the
Zayyanid dynasty ruling the
Kingdom of Tlemcen, in modern-day
Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...
.
He was the son of
Abu Hammu I, the preceding Sultan of Tlemcen.
In 1318, he overthrew and killed his father.
In 1329, he led his forces east into
Ifriqiya
Ifriqiya ( '), also known as al-Maghrib al-Adna (), was a medieval historical region comprising today's Tunisia, eastern Algeria, and Tripolitania (roughly western Libya). It included all of what had previously been the Byzantine province of ...
. He captured Algiers. In the
Battle of er-Rais the Zayyanids defeated the Hafsids. They then
occupied the Hafsid capital, Tunis.
Abu Tashufin then faced an alliance between
Marinids and
Hafsids which had been established through the marriage of a Hafsid princess to Abu al-Hasan, Sultan of Marinids. This led to
the siege of Tlemcen from 1335-1337. Abu Tashufin I was killed during the siege of Tlemcen by the Marinids and the Hafsids.
Tlemcen was conquered by
Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman of the
Marinid dynasty from 1337 until 1348, when it was retaken by Abu Tashufin's sons, Abu Said Uthman and Abu Thabit.
The Zayyanids were the first to sponsor of the construction of madrasas in their part of the Maghreb, and among the most famous in Tlemcen was the
Tashfiniya Madrasa founded by Abu Tashufin.
See also
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References
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Berber monarchs
Zayyanid dynasty
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
14th-century Berber people
14th-century monarchs in Africa