Abu Inan Faris
Abū ʿ Inan Faris Arabic أبو عنان فارس (* 1329 in Fes, † 1358 ) was the eleventh successor Sultan and the Marinids in Morocco ( 1351-1358 ).
Abū ʿ Inan Faris was his father's lifetime Abu l -Hasan ( Sultan 1331-1351 ) served as governor in Tlemcen. When he learned in 1350 by the defeat of the Marinids at Kairouan against the Bedouins, he proclaimed himself the ruler of Tlemcen, on the assumption that Abu l -Hasan had not survived the defeat. But this managed to flee to Morocco, so it came to internal struggles within the dynasty in which Abū ʿ Inan was able to beat his father. After his father's death he was widely recognized as a ruler. He was the first of the title Amīr al -mu ʾ minin " Commander of the Faithful " in the dynasty - according to the old model of the first caliph after Muhammad - adopted and immortalized himself with that title in the foundation inscription named after him Madrasa Bū ʿ Inānīya in Fes.
Abū ʿ Inan was a great patron of art and culture and brought together poets and scholars at his court. In its order, the poet Muhammad Ibn Dschuzaiy wrote the experiences of the great traveler Ibn Battuta down in the form of a report. Abū ʿ Inan completed the taken by his father to attack buildings in Algeria, Meknes and Fes and built the imposing Madrasa ʿ Bū Inānīya مدرسة بو عنانية in Fes, where Ibn Khaldun also taught. As can be seen travelogue from Ibn Battuta Ibn Dschuzaiys preface to, he had on the night of the Prophet birthday across the country host large banquets regularly.
Like his father tried to unite the Maghreb during the reign of Abū ʿ Marinids also Inan. Thus, already in 1352, and Bougie Tlemcen was recaptured by the Abdalwadiden. He succeeded in 1358 and the drawing in Tunis, but he was forced to flee to Morocco, as the Arab auxiliary troops refused him homage.
In Morocco he was overthrown in 1358 by a conspiracy of the high dignitary at the court and strangled by one of his viziers on his sick bed. On subsequent power struggles was, inter alia, Ibn Khaldun also involved, who had to leave the country out. The Wattasids won in the following years as the viziers dominant position in Morocco and had a decisive influence on the input and deposition of sultans.