to Mount Darn, whereupon a group rallied around him. He advanced, consolidated his grip, drove out Idris’s deputies, and killed some of them. In al-Andalus Ibn Hud al-Judhami (1) rose in rebellion, summoned the people to the Abbasid cause, and the populace inclined toward him. Idris therefore fled, crossed over to Marrakesh, and there he and Yahya met in battle. Idris routed Yahya, who again fled to the mountains. Al-ʿAdil’s reign had begun in 620 AH.
During his time the great encounter near Toledo occurred, and the Muslims were crushed. Before long al-ʿAdil himself was strangled, his palace in Marrakesh was looted, and Yahya ibn Muhammad ibn Yaʿqub seized the throne. His uncle fought him—as we have already mentioned—and was then killed.
- The Maghribī ruler Idris ibn Yaʿqub ibn Yusuf al-Qaysī
Sultan al-Malik al-Maʾmūn, “Commander of the Faithful”—as he claimed—Abū al-ʿUlā Idris, son of Sultan al-Manṣūr Yaʿqūb ibn Yūsuf ibn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn ʿAlī al-Qaysī.
He was a valiant, courageous, imposing, and crafty figure—learned in jurisprudence, a polymath, an authority in legal theory, both poet and prose stylist, and possessed of considerable majesty.
He had been in al-Andalus with his brother al-ʿAdil ʿAbd Allah. When the Franks rose against al-ʿAdil, the latter left al-Andalus and appointed this Idris as governor of Seville. Many events then befell him. The Friday sermon in al-Andalus was subsequently delivered in his name as caliph. He later crossed the strait, took possession of Marrakesh, and wrested the kingdom from his cousin Yahya ibn Muhammad. They met in battle more than once, until Yahya’s cause weakened. Yahya sought protection with a tribe in a fortress belonging to the district of Tlemcen, where he was assassinated. Idris then established full control; he was a tyrant, fearless in shedding blood, and he removed Ibn Tūmart’s name from the Friday sermon.