Muhammad V (Granada)

Muhammad V , with full name Muhammad al-chamis al-Ghani bi-llah ibn Yusuf  /محمد الخامس الغني بالله بن يوسف / Muḥammad al-ḫāmis al-Ġanī bi-llāh b. Yūsuf (* 1338 ; † January 16, 1391 ), was Emir of Granada from 1354 to 1391 .

Muhammad V took over the rule from his father Yusuf I (1333-1354). His government was not initially unchallenged. When Málaga was conquered by a Christian fleet in 1359, Abu Said overthrew it. Muhammad V was able to flee to Morocco . Abu Said set Ismail II (1359-1360) as ruler before he himself became Muhammad VI. the government took over (1360-1362). He was initially able to assert himself against Muhammad V, who acted with Merinidian and Castilian support. But his tyrannical rule led to the secession of several provinces, so that Muhammad VI. fled to Seville , where he was executed by Peter I.

Due to his friendship with Peter I of Castile, Muhammad V also intervened in the Castilian civil war, where he supported Peter I against Heinrich Trastamara . Later, on his escape, Peter was also taken in to Granada . This partisanship paid off insofar as the Nasrids were able to conquer the Castilian Algeciras on the Strait of Gibraltar in 1369 .

Until 1371 the empire was led by the vizier Lisān ad-Dīn ibn al--aṭīb, who leaned in his politics on the Meriniden in Morocco. At the same time he was the last great Muslim scholar in Andalusia. As such, he was an eminent writer of historical and medical writings. When Muhammad V overthrew him in 1371 and took over the government himself, he fled to Fez , where he was murdered in 1374 at the instigation of Muhammad V. Since Castile was considerably weakened by the civil war, Muhammad V was able to consolidate the power of the emirate. Under him, Granada rose to become the center of Islamic culture in the west. About the cultural flowering report u. a. Ibn Battuta and Ibn Chaldun . So were z. B. the hospital in Granada and the famous lion court in the Alhambra .

Muhammad V's successor was his son Yusuf II in 1391 , who was overthrown by his own son Muhammad VII (1392-1408) in 1392 .

literature

• Arnold Hottinger : The Moors. Arabic culture in Spain . Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7705-3075-6
• Stephan Ronart, Nandy Ronart: Lexicon of the Arab World. A historical-political reference work. Artemis Verlag, Zurich et al. 1972, ISBN 3-7608-0138-2 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Yusuf I.	Emir of Granada 1354-1359	Ismail II
Muhammad VI.	Emir of Granada 1362-1391	Yusuf II.