Abdul-Wahid I, Almohad Caliph
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Abu Muhammad Abdul-Wahid I ( Abū Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Wāhid bin Yūsuf) was Caliph of Morocco for less than a year in 1224. Soon after succeeding his father, the Almohad
Caliph Yusuf II
, to the throne, Abdul-Wahid I was strangled. His vizier, like that of his father and grandfather, was Abū Sa`īd bin Jām`i.
Almohad
The Almohad Dynasty , was a Moroccan Berber-Muslim dynasty founded in the 12th century that established a Berber state in Tinmel in the Atlas Mountains in roughly 1120.The movement was started by Ibn Tumart in the Masmuda tribe, followed by Abd al-Mu'min al-Gumi between 1130 and his...
Caliph Yusuf II
Yusuf II, Almohad Caliph
Yusuf II was Caliph of Morocco from 1213 until his death. Son of the previous caliph, Muhammad an-Nasir, Yusuf assumed the throne following his father's death, at the age of only sixteen years....
, to the throne, Abdul-Wahid I was strangled. His vizier, like that of his father and grandfather, was Abū Sa`īd bin Jām`i.