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Cuenca

قونكة

Municipality and capital of the province of Cuenca, Spain.

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Conquest of Cuenca (1177)

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Abu Ya'qub Yusuf ibn Abd al-Mu'min· Conquest of Cuenca (1177)

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islam.museum contributors. “Cuenca”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/cuenca/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.

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Abu Ya'qub Yusuf ibn Abd al-Mu'min

Abu Ya'qub Yusuf ibn Abd al-Mu'min, second Almohad caliph — deposed the designated heir, his brother Muhammad, in Sha'ban 558, posted his brother Abu Hafs 'Umar over al-Andalus, and grew up between the cavalry and the scholars: a firm jurist whose bent ran to wisdom and philosophy, his dinars the 'Yusufis' of the Maghreb. He crossed in 566 with a hundred thousand horse, and at Seville the death of Ibn Mardanish (Rajab 567 — his mother was said to have poisoned him) brought the sons to surrender all the east of al-Andalus; Yusuf raided to the gates of Toledo, took Gafsa in 575, and died of illness (some said a Frankish arrow) at the month-long siege of Santarém in Rabi' I 580, carried home in a coffin while the Almohad commanders settled the succession on his son Ya'qub without a written will.