Alfonso XI of Castile

أدفنش ملك قشتالة (الطاغية)

Alfonso of Castile, called al-Taghiya in the Maghrebi chronicles; facing Sultan Abu al-Hasan al-Marini in the Tarifa campaign, his fleet won the Strait and cut the Muslim camp's supply, he gathered the Christian nations with Afonso of Portugal beside him, slipped a hidden force into Tarifa by night, and when battle joined in 741 the combined Maghreb-Andalus host broke in a great rout — the sultan's women and treasure falling into his hands.

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Roles
Ruler · military-commander
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
al-Andalus & Europe
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أدفنش صاحب قشتالة، ويسميه المؤرخون المغاربة «الطاغية»، وهو ألفونسو الحادي عشر بحسب بيانات المتحف. شارك في واقعة طريف. 1

يروي ابن خلدون أنه لقي السلطان أبا الحسن المريني في حرب طريف. فتغلب أسطوله على بحر الزقاق وقطع المرافق عن معسكر المسلمين. 1

واحتشدت إليه أمم النصرانية، وظاهره صاحب البرتغال. ودسّ إلى طريف جيشاً كميناً، فلما نشبت الحرب انهزم معسكر المغرب والأندلس سنة 741هـ، واستولى على حظايا السلطان وذخائره. 1

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واقعة طريف وتمحيص المسلمين

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أبو الحسن المريني سلطان المغرب· Sultan Yusuf I Abu al-Hajjaj al-Nasri· طريفة· واقعة طريف وتمحيص المسلمين

Sources

  1. Kitab al-Ibar of Ibn Khaldun
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أبو الحسن المريني سلطان المغرب

Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Uthman al-Marini, sultan of the Maghreb, who styled himself amir al-mu'minin, 'sultan of the two shores, guardian of both banks'; he copied three noble mushafs in his own hand for the three mosques to which journeys are made, endowed waqfs on them whose titulature the great chancery writer Ibn Nubata composed, and sent al-Nasir Muhammad 325 great rubies, 128 emeralds and 128 zabarjads — al-Maqqari himself saw the Jerusalem copy in finest workmanship; he ruled ten years and seven days before his son Abu Inan deposed him.