Abd al-Wahid II

Abd al- Wahid II al-Rashid (Arabic عبد الواحد الرشيد, DMG ʿ Abd al - Wahid al-Rashid, Rashid also ) was the ninth Caliph of the Almohad ( 1232-1242 ).

Abd al- Wahid al-Rashid II succeeds his father Idris I. al - Mamun (1227-1232), under whose rule the empire was badly shaken by the attack on the Almohad institutions. A new stabilization should not succeed. After the fall of the Hafsids of Tunis ( 1229 ) explained this in 1236 officially announced their independence.

A year earlier the Berber tribe of the Abdalwadiden had established an independent kingdom with its capital in Tlemcen in western Algeria. In the aftermath of the struggle for the preservation of the empire, especially in Morocco was performed. Main opponent here was the Berber tribe of the Marinids / Banu Marin. Was succeeded by his brother Ali Abul- Hasan al- Said ( 1242-1248 ).