أبو يعقوب يوسف بن عبد المؤمن

أبو يعقوب يوسف بن عبد المؤمن

c. 1184 CE · 580 AH

Abu Ya'qub Yusuf ibn Abd al-Mu'min, second Almohad caliph — deposed the designated heir, his brother Muhammad, in Sha'ban 558, posted his brother Abu Hafs 'Umar over al-Andalus, and grew up between the cavalry and the scholars: a firm jurist whose bent ran to wisdom and philosophy, his dinars the 'Yusufis' of the Maghreb 1. He crossed in 566 with a hundred thousand horse, and at Seville the death of Ibn Mardanish (Rajab 567 — his mother was said to have poisoned him) brought the sons to surrender all the east of al-Andalus; Yusuf raided to the gates of Toledo, took Gafsa in 575, and died of illness (some said a Frankish arrow) at the month-long siege of Santarém in Rabi' I 580, carried home in a coffin while the Almohad commanders settled the succession on his son Ya'qub without a written will 2.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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Maghreb · al-Andalus & Europe
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موجز

أبو يعقوب يوسف بن عبد المؤمن ثاني خلفاء الموحدين، وهو ابن عبد المؤمن بن علي. 3

توليه الأمر

خلع أخاه أبا عبد الله محمداً، وكان ولي العهد ونُقش اسمه على الدنانير، وذلك في شعبان سنة 558هـ، فانفرد بالأمر. وولّى أخاه أبا حفص عمر جزيرة الأندلس. 3

صفته

يذكر ابن خلكان أنه نشأ بين الفرسان والعلماء، وكان فقيهاً حافظاً ميله إلى الحكمة والفلسفة أكثر من ميله إلى الأدب. وتنسب إليه الدنانير اليوسفية في المغرب. 4

الأندلس وإفريقية

دخل الأندلس سنة 566هـ ومعه مئة ألف فارس، ونزل بإشبيلية. وشرع في استرجاع بلاد المسلمين من الفرنج، وحاصر طليطلة ثم رجع عنها. وفتح قفصة سنة 575هـ. 5 6

وفاته

عبر إلى الأندلس سنة 580هـ وحاصر شنترين نحو شهر، فمرض ومات في ربيع الأول من السنة نفسها، وحُمل إلى إشبيلية. وقيل أصابه سهم. ويذكر ابن الأثير أنه مات دون وصية، فملّك القواد وأولاد عبد المؤمن ابنه يعقوب. 7

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Sources

  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan, p. 130-132
  2. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan, p. 131-132, nafh-tib-maqqari p. 383
  3. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan, p.130
  4. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan, p.130-132
  5. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan, p.131
  6. Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari, p.383
  7. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan, p.132
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islam.museum contributors. “أبو يعقوب يوسف بن عبد المؤمن”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abu-yaqub-yusuf-almohad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-16.

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The Almohad war-schools

Abd al-Mu'min's war-schools for cadre and soldier: he gathered the youth of the Maghrebi tribes, Masmuda above all; beside martial arts they taught Ibn Tumart's books and the pupils learnt his counsels by heart — weapons drill, riding, swimming, siegecraft by land and sea; near Marrakesh the Almohads dug a basin holding skiffs and small 'training ships' where the cadets practised rowing and command of vessels. The schooling ran at state expense with horses and arms granted, and out of it graduated many of the commanders, senior officers and castle-governors.