Abu Idris al-Wathiq ( ar, أبو العلا أبو الدبوس الواثق بالله إدريس بن محمد بن أبي عبد الله محمد بن أبي حفص بن عبد المؤمن; died 1269), known as Abu Dabbus, was the last

Almohad The Almohad Caliphate (; ar, خِلَافَةُ ٱلْمُوَحِّدِينَ or or from ar, ٱلْمُوَحِّدُونَ, translit=al-Muwaḥḥidūn, lit=those who profess the unity of God) was a North African Berber Muslim empire fou ...

caliph who reigned in Marrakesh from 1266 until his death.

Life

Marrakech had been besieged earlier by the

Marinid The Marinid Sultanate was a Berber Muslim empire from the mid-13th to the 15th century which controlled present-day Morocco and, intermittently, other parts of North Africa (Algeria and Tunisia) and of the southern Iberian Peninsula (Spain) ar ...

sultan

Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd Al-Haqq Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd al-Haqq () (c. 1212 – 20 March 1286) was a Marinid ruler of Morocco. He was the fourth son of Marinid founder Abd al-Haqq, and succeeded his brother Abu Yahya in 1258. He died in 1286. He was the son of Abd al-Haqq ...

before 1266, although unsuccessfully. Idris took advantage of the confused situation to oust his cousin

Abu Hafs Umar al-Murtada Abū Ḥafṣ ‘Umar al-Murtaḍā ( ar, أبو حفص عمر المرتضى بن أبي إبراهيم اسحاق بن يوسف بن عبد المؤمن; died 1266) was an Almohad caliph who reigned over part of present-day Morocco from 1248 ...

with Abu Yusuf's support, and to declare himself Almohad caliph, although his power barely extended outside the city. However, the Marinid ruler changed his mind eventually, spurring the Zayyanid

Yaghmurasen Ibn Zyan Yaghmurasen Ibn Zyan (1206 – February/March 1283, ar, يغمراسن إبن زيان, long name: ''Yaghmurasan ben Ziyan ben Thabet ben Mohamed ben Zegraz ben Tiddugues ben Taaullah ben Ali ben Abd al-Qasem ben Abd al-Wad'') was the founder of ...

to attack Marrakech. The siege lasted from 1268 until September 1269, when the city fell. Idris al-Wathiq was captured by the combined

- Zayyanid forces and executed. Idris' death marked the end of the Almohad Caliphate.

Sources

* Julien, Charles-André. ''Histoire de l'Afrique du Nord, des origines à 1830'', Payot, Paris, 1994. 1269 deaths 13th century in Morocco 13th-century Almohad caliphs Year of birth unknown People from Marrakesh Assassinated royalty 13th-century Berber people {{Morocco-bio-stub