Abu Bakr II

The reverse of a dinar minted under Abu Bakr with the field inscription: Abū Yaḥyā Abū Bakr / ibn al-ʾumarāʾ / ar-rāšidīn ; in the four marginal fields are the caliphate titles al-Mutawakkil ʿalā (above) / 'llāh al-Muʾaiyad (left) / bi-naṣr Allāh (below) / Amīr al-Muʾminīn (right)

Abu Bakr II ( Arabic أبو يحيى أبو بكر المتوكل, DMG Abū Yaḥyā Abū Bakr al-Mutawakkil ; † 1346 ) was caliph of the Hafsiden in Ifrīqiya (1318-1346).

Abu Bakr II took over the rule in the Hafsidenreich in 1318 . After lengthy battles with other aspirants to the throne and the Bedouins, he succeeded in pacifying the empire. The empire could also be reunited. Under Abu Bakr II the Hafsids maintained good relations with the Merinids of Morocco . When the Abdalwadids of Tlemcen were preparing to attack Ifrīqiya , Abu Bakr II made an alliance with the Merinids. With these, the Hafsids overran the kingdom of the Abdalwadids in the central Maghreb / Algeria in 1334 . The power of the empire was also demonstrated by the fact that in 1335 the island of Djerba , which Aragon had occupied since 1284 , could be conquered .

However, the unity of the empire was already lost under his successor Umar II (1346-1347). The Hafsiden Empire, weakened by renewed power struggles, was conquered by the Merinids in 1347 and was only able to rise to a significant power in the Maghreb under Abu l-Abbas Ahmad II (1370-1394).

literature

• 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 .