Mukaththir ibn ‘Īsá ibn Fulaytah al-Ḥasanī al-‘Alawī ( ar, مكثر بن عيسى بن فليتة الحسني العلوي; d. 1203–1204) was the last

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from the sharifian Hawashim dynasty, reigning at least three times between 1176 and 1203. He was Mukaththir ibn

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ibn Fulaytah ibn

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ibn Abi Hashim Muhammad, and his ''

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'' (paternal lineage) continues to Hasan ibn Ali, the grandson of Muhammad. On 2 Sha'ban 570 AH () Mukaththir's father died, and his brother

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became Emir of Mecca. Less than a year later, on the night of 15 Rajab 571 AH (), Mukaththir deposed his brother and assumed the Emirate. On 15 Sha'ban 571 AH () Turanshah, the brother of Saladin, arrived in Mecca on his way to

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. He summoned Mukaththir and Da'ud and made peace between them. In Dhu al-Hijjah of that year (June 1176) the Iraqi '' amir al-hajj'' Tashtakin al-Mustanjadi arrived with orders from the Caliph to depose Mukaththir. Fighting commenced on Yawm al-Nahr — 13 Dhu al-Hijjah () — and continued until 16 Dhu al-Hijjah (), when Mukaththir finally surrendered his castle on Mount Abu Qubays and left Mecca. Tashtakin gave custodianship of the Emirate to Qasim ibn Muhanna, the

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, but he surrendered it to Da'ud after only three days, reportedly out of fear of retaliation from Mukaththir. Reports indicate that by the following year, 572 AH (1176–1177), Mukaththir had once again supplanted Da'ud as Emir. At some point the Emirate returned to Da'ud, as al-Dhahabi reports that he was Emir in 587 AH (1191–1192). He writes that in that year Da'ud looted the

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of its wealth and stripped the Black Stone of its silver collar. When the ''amir al-hajj'' arrived he deposed Da'ud and installed Mukaththir once again as Emir. Da'ud died in 589 AH (1193), and Mukaththir reigned without interruption until Qatadah ibn Idris conquered Mecca and ended the reign of the Hawashim. According to varying reports, Qatadah's takeover of Mecca occurred between 597 and 599 AH (between 1200 and 1203). According to Ibn Mahfuz, in 597 AH (1200–1201) Hanzalah ibn Qatadah marched on Mecca and Mukaththir fled to Wadi Nakhlah, where he died in 600 AH (1203–1204).

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