Sultan Abu Hammu Musa II

السلطان أبو حمو موسى الثاني

1389 CE · 791 AH

Abu Hammu Musa ibn Yusuf ibn Abd al-Rahman, the Abd al-Wadid sultan of Tlemcen of the 'third return'; he escaped his family's ruin to Tunis where the hajib Ibn Tafrakin sheltered him and refused Sultan Abu Inan's demand for his extradition, then came back with Dawawida and Zaghba support and stormed Tlemcen on Wednesday 8 Rabi I 760 AH, taking the bay'a of the caliphate, was driven out before the Maghreb's armies and returned a third time — a scholar-sultan who wrote on genealogies and history, hosting the learned at his court, Ibn Khaldun among them, who finished the abridgement of al-Ibar under him.