Sultan Abu Thabit al-Marini

السلطان أبو ثابت المريني

1308 CE · 708 AH

Abu Thabit Amir ibn Yusuf al-Marini, sultan of the Marinids (707-708 AH); 'the falcon of his people' for his daring, he marched on Tlemcen and besieged it hard, entered Marrakesh in mid-Rajab, and died at Taza in 708 AH in the flower of his reign.

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Roles
sultan
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Maghreb
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: al-Abili, Abu Abd Allah · Al-Adfawi, Ja'far ibn Tha'laba · Al-Astarabadhi, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad · al-Halabi Qutb al-Din Abd al-Karim ibn Abd al-Nur · Al-Isnawi, Abd al-Rahim ibn al-Hasan

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موجز

أبو ثابت عامر بن يوسف المريني سلطان بني مرين من سنة 707 إلى 708هـ، وهو ابن أبي يوسف يعقوب. 1

سيرته

يصفه ابن خلدون بأنه «صقر قومه» إقداماً. سار إلى تلمسان فنازلها وشدّ عليها الحصار. ثم دخل مراكش في منتصف رجب من السنة نفسها. وهلك بتازى سنة 708هـ في أول ملكه. 1

التاريخ الميلادي لوفاته (1308م) محسوب من التاريخ الهجري وليس منصوصاً في المصدر.

يتصل بـدولة بني مرين.

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Predecessor of
Sultan Abu al-Rabi' Sulayman al-Marini
Ruler of
Marinid dynasty
Child of
أبو يوسف يعقوب المريني

People and things also explored

Sultan Abu Sa'id Uthman II al-Marini· Sultan Abu al-Rabi' Sulayman al-Marini· Marinid dynasty· Fes Jdid· Sultan Abu al-Abbas Ahmad al-Musta'in al-Marini· Abu Inan Faris al-Marini· Al-Mawla Abu Salim Ibrahim al-Marini· Almohad Caliphate

Sources

  1. Kitab al-Ibar of Ibn Khaldun
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Sultan Abu Sa'id Uthman II al-Marini

Abu Sa'id Uthman ibn Ya'qub ibn Abd al-Haqq al-Marini (710-731 AH); his sister Urayba worked for his bay'a until he stood in command, lifted the grievances, cut the unlawful taxes and freed the prisoners, besieged Tlemcen in 714 AH at the playground field, fought his son Abu Ali's revolt until the son was killed — his reign the flower of Marinid prosperity, preached in al-Andalus, dying in 731 AH when his son Abu al-Hasan was acclaimed.