Amir Abu Zakariya, lord of Bejaia

الأمير أبو زكريا صاحب بجاية

Abu Bakr Zakariya ibn al-Mustansir al-Hafsi, who titled himself 'al-Muntakhab for the revival of God's religion'; he reached Tlemcen after escaping his father's death and lodged with his brother-in-law Uthman ibn Yaghmurasen, then, as the Arabs swore him and kingship's signs showed, he seized Constantine in 683 AH and Bejaia in 684 AH, took Algiers, and split the Hafsid state into the western emirate and the capital — he who founded the madrasa opposite the Aquri house in Tunis.

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emir
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Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
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Maghreb
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موجز

أبو بكر زكريا هو ابن السلطان المستنصر الحفصي، ولقّب نفسه «المنتخب لإحياء دين الله». يُعرف في المتحف بصاحب بجاية. 1

صعوده

بعد نجاته من مهلك أبيه لحق بتلمسان ونزل على صهره عثمان بن يغمراسن. ولما بايع له العرب وبدت مخايل الملك استولى على قسطنطينة سنة 683هـ، ثم دخل بجاية سنة 684هـ واستولى على الجزائر. 1

أثره

اقتطع الناحية الغربية من أعمال الحضرة، فانقسمت الدولة الحفصية إلى دولتين، كما يروي ابن خلدون. وهو الذي اختط المدرسة للعلم بأزاء دار الأقوري بتونس. 2

تواريخ مولده ووفاته غير مذكورة في بيانات المتحف وتحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي.

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al-Mustansir billah al-Hafsi

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Louis IX's siege of Tunis (the Eighth Crusade)· Mecca's bay'a to the Hafsid al-Mustansir· Abu Zakariya al-Hafsi· al-Wathiq Yahya ibn al-Mustansir al-Hafsi· Hafsid dynasty· al-Mustansir billah al-Hafsi

Sources

  1. Kitab al-Ibar of Ibn Khaldun, p.1729
  2. Kitab al-Ibar of Ibn Khaldun, p.1730
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Louis IX's siege of Tunis (the Eighth Crusade)

Louis of France sailed at the end of Dhu al-Qa'da 668, mustered at Sardinia, and landed at Carthage with some six thousand horse and thirty thousand foot on three hundred ships — as Ibn Khaldun reports from his father from his grandfather — seven kings among them the lords of Sicily and the islands; he refused the sultan's envoy and pocketed the eighty thousand gold pieces sent to buy him off. The hosts met in mid-Muharram 669 with some five hundred dead on both sides, until the Frankish king was found dead in his camp; the peace was drawn by the qadi Ibn Zaytun over fifteen days, and Carthage was demolished, its stones carried to Tunis.