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Fez is one of the cities and capitals of the Maghrib. Uthman ibn Abd al-Haqq al-Marini imposed a set tax on it in return for an end to raids against it. It then became the seat of the Banu Marin, and Sultan Abu Yusuf laid out the new city beside it as a residence for himself and his army, according to Ibn Khaldun. ¹

أبو يوسف يعقوب المريني

Abu Yusuf Ya'qub ibn Abd al-Haqq, Marinid sultan of Fez — the crossing whose victories Muslims had not seen since al-Iqab, slaying the Christian king Nuño and, as some said, forty thousand of his army; he held Ronda, Algeciras, Tarifa and Gibraltar, and under his son the Castilian Alfonso himself came begging, kissed his hand and pawned his crown for help recovering his throne.

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أبو يوسف يعقوب المريني