Yaghmurasen Ibn Zyan

Abu Yahya ibn Yaghmurasan Zayyan (Arabic أبو يحيى يغمراسن بن زيان, DMG Abu Yahya Yaġmurāsan b Zaiyān; . † 1282) was from 1236 to 1282, the first Sultan of Abdalwadiden in western Algeria.

While the dissolution of the Almohadenreichs under Caliph Abd al- Wahid II ar -Rashid (1232-1242) succeeded Abu Yahya in western Algeria to Tlemcen as leader of the Berber Banu Abd al - Wad (also Banu Zaiyan or Ziyan ) and using the Bedouin tribes to gain independence and to establish the kingdom of Abdalwadiden. He could also claim against the Almohads and the Hafsids of Tunis. However, he had to acknowledge the supremacy of the Hafsids, when he was driven out of these 1242 from Tlemcen temporarily. Even in the aftermath eastern Algeria belonged to the realm of the Hafsids.

Abu Yahya managed to establish a robust imperial administration with the help of Muslims from al -Andalus. To be able to stand up to the powerful Marinids in Morocco, the Berber troops were reinforced with Christian and Turkish mercenaries. Also have good relations with the Nasrid Granada and Castile, maintained the neighbors of the Marinids. Abu Yahya promoted at his court in Tlemcen also a poet and jurist. Successor of Abu Yahya ibn Zayyan his son Abu Said Uthman I. ( 1282-1308 ).

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