‘Īsá ibn Fulaytah al-Ḥasanī al-‘Alawī ( ar, عيسى بن فليتة الحسني العلوي; d. ) was

Emir of Mecca Emir (; ar, أمير ' ), sometimes transliterated amir, amier, or ameer, is a word of Arabic origin that can refer to a male monarch, aristocrat, holder of high-ranking military or political office, or other person possessing actual or ceremo ...

from 1161 to 1175. He ruled during the reigns of the

Fatimid The Fatimid Caliphate was an Ismaili Shi'a caliphate extant from the tenth to the twelfth centuries AD. Spanning a large area of North Africa, it ranged from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Red Sea in the east. The Fatimids, a dy ...

caliph

al-Adid Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf ( ar, أبو محمد عبد الله بن يوسف; 1151–1171), better known by his regnal name al-ʿĀḍid li-Dīn Allāh ( ar, العاضد لدين الله, , Strengthener of God's Faith), was the ...

and the

Ayyubid The Ayyubid dynasty ( ar, الأيوبيون '; ) was the founding dynasty of the medieval Sultan of Egypt, Sultanate of Egypt established by Saladin in 1171, following his abolition of the Fatimid Caliphate, Fatimid Caliphate of Egypt. A Sunni ...

sultan

Saladin Yusuf ibn Ayyub ibn Shadi () ( – 4 March 1193), commonly known by the epithet Saladin,, ; ku, سه‌لاحه‌دین, ; was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Hailing from an ethnic Kurdish family, he was the first of both Egypt and ...

. He belonged to the

sharif Sharīf ( ar, شريف, 'noble', 'highborn'), also spelled shareef or sherif, feminine sharīfa (), plural ashrāf (), shurafāʾ (), or (in the Maghreb) shurfāʾ, is a title used to designate a person descended, or claiming to be descended, fr ...

ian dynasty known as the Hawashim. He was preceded by his nephew

Qasim ibn Hashim Qāsim ibn Hāshim ibn Fulaytah al-Ḥasanī al-‘Alawī ( ar, قاسم بن هاشم بن فليتة الحسني العلوي; d. 1162) was Emir of Mecca from 1155 to 1161, and briefly in 1162. He belonged to the sharifian dynasty known as the ...

, and succeeded by his son

Da'ud David is a common masculine given name. It is of Hebrew language, Hebrew origin, and its popularity derives from King David, a figure of central importance in the Hebrew Bible and in the religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. E ...

. He died on 2 Sha'ban 570 AH ().

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Year of birth unknown 1175 deaths 12th-century Arab people Hawashim dynasty Sharifs of Mecca {{MEast-royal-stub