Ali ibn Yahya () (1 June 1086 -10 July 1121 ) was the penultimate

Zirid The Zirid dynasty (), Banu Ziri (), was a Sanhaja Berber dynasty from what is now Algeria which ruled the central Maghreb from 972 to 1014 and Ifriqiya (eastern Maghreb) from 972 to 1148. Descendants of Ziri ibn Manad, a military leader of th ...

ruler of

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 ...

, in 1116–1121 CE.

Life

Ali inherited the throne from his father,

Yahya ibn Tamim Yahya ibn Tamim () (28 November 1065 - 25 April 1116 ) was the Zirid ruler of Ifriqiya from 29 February 1108 to 25 April 1116. Life Yahya inherited the throne from his father, Tamim ibn al-Mu'izz, in February 1108. Tamim's long reign had left the ...

, in April 1116. He planned to launch attacks on the

Italo-Norman The Italo-Normans (), or Siculo-Normans (''Siculo-Normanni'') when referring to Sicily and Southern Italy, are the Italian-born descendants of the first Norman conquerors to travel to Southern Italy in the first half of the eleventh century. ...

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, and sought the aid of the

Almoravids The Almoravid dynasty () was a Berber Muslim dynasty centered in the territory of present-day Morocco. It established an empire that stretched over the western Maghreb and Al-Andalus, starting in the 1050s and lasting until its fall to the Almo ...

for the purpose. This led to a series of clashes with the Normans in the decades after his death and culminating in the capture of the Zirid capital,

Mahdia Mahdia ( ') is a Tunisian coastal city with 76,513 inhabitants, south of Monastir, Tunisia, Monastir and southeast of Sousse. Mahdia is a provincial centre north of Sfax. It is important for the associated fish-processing industry, as well as w ...

, in 1148. Ali's son, Abu'l-Hasan al-Hasan, was thus the last Zirid ruler. Ali died of a disease on Sunday 10 July 1121, leaving four sons behind him ; Al Hasan, Al Aziz, Badis and Ahmad.

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* {{s-end 1121 deaths Zirid emirs of Ifriqiya 12th-century Berber people 12th-century monarchs in Africa 12th-century people from Ifriqiya