Abu Abdallah Muhammad IV al-Mutawakkil
Abu Abdallah Muhammad IV al-Mutawakkil | |
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Caliph of the Hafsid Sultanate | |
Reign | 1494–1526 |
Predecessor | Abu Yahya Zakariya |
Successor | Abu Abdallah Muhammad V al-Hasan |
Born | unknown date |
Died | 1526 Hafsid Sultanate |
Dynasty | Hafsids |
Religion | Islam |
Abu Abdallah Muhammad IV al-Mutawakkil (
He came to power following an extended fight over the succession following the death of the caliph Abu 'Amr 'Uthman in 1488. Like many of his predecessors he endowed places of learning. The Abdaliyya library which he founded in the Al-Zaytuna Mosque around 1500 has survived intact into modern times. Leo Africanus recorded his love of music, singing and the company of female singers performing the Ma'luf music of the court.[3]: 368, 412–3 The main political and military events of his reign concerned the rise in corsairing and the Spanish invasion of the Hafsid domains.
Barbarossa brothers and raids on Christian shipping
In 1492 the
Their first success was the seizing a trading galley and its escort belonging to Pope
Spanish invasions
The raids of the
Nevertheless, the position of Abu Abdullah Muhammad continued to deteriorate. He enlisted the assistance of the Barbarossas to try to regain Bejaia in 1514 and again in 1515. The Spanish drove them off but they succeeded in taking the coastal town of
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