al-Rashid ibn al-Ma'mun al-Muwahhidi

الرشيد بن المأمون الموحدي

1242 CE · 640 AH

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.

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Sunni
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Maghreb
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: أحمد البدوي · Ahmad ibn Yusuf al-Tifashi · Al-Abraqawhi, Ahmad ibn Ishaq · Al-Baydawi, Abd Allah ibn Umar · al-Ju'bari Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Umar

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موجز

عبد الواحد بن المأمون الملقب بالرشيد، من حكام الدولة الموحدية، وهو ابن المأمون. بويع بعد هلاك أبيه سنة 630هـ، وملك إلى أن قتل سنة 640هـ. 1

الحكم

يروي ابن خلدون أنه هزم يحيى بن الناصر ودخل مراكش. واشترطت عليه مشيخة الموحدين إعادة رسوم الدعوة المهدية التي كان أبوه قد محاها، فأعيدت. ودبّر في استدراج أمير الخلط مسعود بن حميدان فقتله. 1

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Child of
al-Ma'mun ibn al-Mansur al-Muwahhidi
Ruler of
Almohad Caliphate

People and things also explored

al-Ma'mun ibn al-Mansur al-Muwahhidi· Almohad Caliphate· The Almohad war-schools· al-Ma'mun's repudiation of the Almohad creed· ابن زهر الحفيد· Emirate of Granada· Hafsid dynasty· Marinid dynasty

Sources

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

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.