Sultan Abu al-Abbas Ahmad al-Musta'in al-Marini

السلطان أبو العباس أحمد المريني المستعين

Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Abi Salim al-Marini, called al-Musta'in; meeting his cousin the amir Abd al-Rahman at Wadi al-Naja they swore to join hands — he marched on the New City and besieged it from Kadiyat al-Ara'is until he entered it on 7 Muharram 776 AH, while Abd al-Rahman held Marrakesh, the truce between them fixing Azmour as the boundary; Muhammad ibn Uthman served as vizier, his ties with Granada's Ibn al-Ahmar tightened, and in his days Ibn al-Khatib was killed at Fez.

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sultan
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Maghreb
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هو أبو العباس أحمد بن أبي سالم المريني الملقب بالمستعين، ابن أبي سالم من بني مرين. 1

اجتمع بابن عمه الأمير عبد الرحمن بوادي النجا وحلفا على اتصال اليد. ثم نهض إلى البلد الجديد وحاصره حتى دخله في سابع المحرم سنة 776هـ. 1

ارتحل عبد الرحمن إلى مراكش واستقل بها، وعُقد بينهما سلم جُعل التخم فيه أزمور. استوزر محمد بن عثمان، وتوثقت علاقته بسلطان الأندلس ابن الأحمر. ووقع في أيامه مقتل ابن الخطيب بفاس. 1

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Ruler of
Marinid dynasty
Child of
Al-Mawla Abu Salim Ibrahim al-Marini

People and things also explored

Abu Inan Faris al-Marini· Al-Mawla Abu Salim Ibrahim al-Marini· Marinid dynasty· Sultan Abu al-Rabi' Sulayman al-Marini· Sultan Abu Sa'id Uthman II al-Marini· Sultan Abu Thabit al-Marini· Almohad Caliphate

Sources

  1. Kitab al-Ibar of Ibn Khaldun
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Abu Inan Faris ibn Ali al-Marini, the Marinid sultan who seized power while his father Abu al-Hasan lay besieged at Kairouan after the Arab rout of 749 AH, claimed the throne and forced his father's abdication on his return, then took Tlemcen in 753 AH and Ifriqiya in 758 AH, ruling the full ancestral realm and building the famed madrasas of Fez and Meknes where Ibn Khaldun himself studied, until his vizier had him killed in 759 AH.