al-Ma'mun ibn al-Mansur al-Muwahhidi

المأمون بن المنصور الموحدي

1232 CE · 630 AH

The Almohad caliph (624-630 AH) who revolted against his own dynasty's doctrine: acclaimed at Seville, he entered Marrakesh in 626 AH with a Christian army, reproached the Almohad shaykhs and killed a hundred of their notables, ordered Ibn Tumart's name erased from coinage and khutba and cursed in the Berber adhan, licensed a church in Marrakesh, lost Ifriqiya to Abu Zakariya al-Hafsi in 627 AH, and died at Wadi Umm al-Rabi' in 630 AH.

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Roles
Ruler
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Maghreb · al-Andalus & Europe
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: أبو المحاسن الشواء · أحمد البدوي · Ahmad ibn Yusuf al-Tifashi · Al-Abraqawhi, Ahmad ibn Ishaq · Al-Baydawi, Abd Allah ibn Umar

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موجز

المأمون بن المنصور الموحدي، خليفة موحدي حكم بين 624 و630هـ. يصفه ابن خلدون بأنه خالف مذهب دولته. 1

بويع بإشبيلية، ودخل مراكش سنة 626هـ بمدد من النصارى. وعدّد على مشيخة الموحدين أفعالهم، وقتل مائة من أعيانهم. 1

وأصدر كتاباً إلى البلدان بمحو اسم المهدي ابن تومرت من السكة والخطبة. وأذن للنصارى في بناء كنيسة بمراكش. 1

ثم خلعت إفريقية طاعته لأبي زكريا الحفصي سنة 627هـ. وهلك بوادي أم الربيع سنة 630هـ. 1

تاريخ الوفاة الميلادي (نحو 1232م) مشتق من الهجري.

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Ruler of
Almohad Caliphate
Parent of
al-Rashid ibn al-Ma'mun al-Muwahhidi
Participated in
al-Ma'mun's repudiation of the Almohad creed

People and things also explored

al-Rashid ibn al-Ma'mun al-Muwahhidi· Almohad Caliphate· The Almohad war-schools· الموحدون· ابن زهر الحفيد· Emirate of Granada· Hafsid dynasty· Marinid dynasty

Sources

  1. Kitab al-Ibar of Ibn Khaldun
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al-Rashid ibn al-Ma'mun al-Muwahhidi

Abd al-Wahid ibn al-Ma'mun, titled al-Rashid; acclaimed after his father's death in 630 AH, he defeated Yahya ibn al-Nasir and entered Marrakesh, restoring at the Almohad shaykhs' condition the Mahdi rites his father had erased, and contrived the killing of the Arab commander Mas'ud ibn Humaydan, ruling until his death in 640 AH.