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يغمراسن بن زيان بن ثابت

يغمراسن بن زيان بن ثابت

Founder of the Abd al-Wadid sultanate of Tlemcen from Zanata; besieged Tlemcen eight years, took it, was titled al-Mu'tadid and was killed warring for it in 681 1.

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Yaghmurasan ibn Zayyan ibn Tabit, founder of the state of the Banu Abd al-Wad in Tlemcen, of the Zanata tribe. Ibn Khaldun reports that he besieged Tlemcen for eight years and then entered it, took the title al-Mu'tadid, and was killed in his war against it in the year 681 AH 2.

What the summary says of his relations with the Banu Marin and the Hafsid call is general, and needs an additional source.

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Uthman ibn Yaghmurasan ibn Zayyan
Founder of
بنو عبد الواد

People and things also explored

Abu Ziyan Muhammad ibn Uthman· Abd al-Wadid (Zayyanid) kingdom of Tlemcen· بنو عبد الواد· Uthman ibn Yaghmurasan ibn Zayyan

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  1. Kitab al-Ibar of Ibn Khaldun, p. 1707-1708
  2. Kitab al-Ibar of Ibn Khaldun, p.1707-1708
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Abu Ziyan Muhammad ibn Uthman

Abu Ziyan Muhammad ibn Uthman ibn Yaghmurasan, third of the Abd al-Wadid kings; he took the rule when his father died of dysentery in the fifth year of Yusuf ibn Ya'qub's siege of Tlemcen in 703 — his brother Abu Hammu Musa answering the troops that their sultan was the elder brother Abu Ziyan — and the city endured to a full eight years and three months, eating carrion, cats, mice and the dead, tearing roofs for fuel, a measure of wheat at two and a half mithqals of gold and a cat at one and a half, until Yusuf ibn Ya'qub was stabbed by a eunuch slave and torn limb from limb — 'and God lifted the affliction from the house of Ziyan as if they had been raised from the graves', their mint striking 'how near is God's relief' in wonder at it.