Abu Yaqub Yusuf

Type Figure Region Morocco Time c. 1135–1184 Also known as Abu Yaqub Yusuf、Yusuf I、优素福一世

Second caliph of the Almohad dynasty, who held Iberia and the Maghreb after his father Abd al-Mu'min founded the empire, consolidated Almohad rule in…

Timeline

1160–1184Seville · al-AndalusNamed heir by his father Abd al-Mu'min, he was long stationed at Seville commanding military and civil affairs in al-Andalus. In the 1170s he led forces to suppress border revolts by Castile and promoted the construction of mosques and palaces at Córdoba, Málaga, and elsewhere, consolidating Almohad rule in southern Spain.
1184Marrakesh · MoroccoHe succeeded at Marrakesh after his father's death in 1163. In 1184 he led an army north against Afonso I of Portugal and was killed near Santarém after twenty-one years of reign; his son Abu Yusuf Yaqub succeeded, taking the title al-Mansur.

Sources

Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition: Yūsuf I b. ʿAbd al-Muʾmin
A History of Islamic Spain — W. Montgomery Watt (1965)