al-Wathiq Yahya ibn al-Mustansir al-Hafsi

الواثق يحيى بن المستنصر الحفصي

Yahya ibn al-Mustansir, titled al-Wathiq and known as the Deposed; acclaimed the night of his father's death in 675 AH, he opened with redress of grievances, freeing prisoners, largesse and restoring mosques, until his Andalusi vizier Ibn al-Habbar dominated him and tortured the vizier Ibn Abi al-Husayn to death over his hoard; when his uncle Abu Ishaq entered Bejaia and the army called for him, al-Wathiq knew his reign was spent and abdicated on 1 Rabi I 678, moving from the citadel's palaces to the Aquri house.

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Caliph
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Sunni
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Maghreb
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الواثق يحيى بن المستنصر الحفصي هو ابن المستنصر وصاحب الحكم في الدولة الحفصية. اشتهر بلقب «المخلوع». 1

بويع ليلة وفاة أبيه سنة 675هـ. وافتتح أمره برفع المظالم وتسريح أهل السجون وإفاضة العطاء وإصلاح المساجد. 1

ثم استبد عليه وزيره الأندلسي ابن الحبّر. ويذكر ابن خلدون أن هذا الوزير عذّب الوزير ابن أبي الحسين حتى مات، طلباً لذخيرة من ماله. 1

دخل عمه أبو إسحاق بجاية ودعا له الجند، فتبين الواثق ذهاب ملكه. وتنازل عن الأمر لعمه في غرة ربيع الأول سنة 678هـ، وانتقل من قصور القصبة إلى دار الأقوري. 1

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Child of
al-Mustansir billah al-Hafsi
Ruler of
Hafsid dynasty

People and things also explored

Abu Zakariya al-Hafsi· al-Mustansir billah al-Hafsi· Hafsid dynasty· Louis IX's siege of Tunis (the Eighth Crusade)· Mecca's bay'a to the Hafsid al-Mustansir· Sultan Abu Ishaq al-Hafsi· Amir Abu Zakariya, lord of Bejaia· Almohad Caliphate

Sources

  1. Kitab al-Ibar of Ibn Khaldun
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