Al-Mustanṣir | Ḥafṣid ruler | Britannica (original) (raw)

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association with Ibn al-Abbār

• In Ibn al-Abbār
  …Zakariyyāʾ Yaḥyā and his successor, al-Mustanṣir.
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Ḥafṣid dynasty

• In Ḥafṣid dynasty
  His son, al-Mustanṣir (1249–77), assumed the title of caliph and raised the prestige of the kingdom to its highest point. A period of internal dissension followed al-Mustanṣir’s rule, Ḥafṣid unity being temporarily restored by Abū Ḥafṣ (1284–95), then by Abū Yaḥyā Abū Bakr (1318–46). Plagued by periodic…
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