Abu Yahya (Mallorca)

Abu Yahya Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abi Imran at-Tinmalali ( Arabic ابو يحي محمد بن علي بن أبي ععمرانن التنملالي' DMG ' abū yaḥyā muḥammad ibn 'alī ibn abī' imrān at-tinmalālī ) was the last Wālī appointed by the Almohads on the Balearic island of Mallorca . He ruled from 1208 to 1229.

Life

Abu Yahya Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abi Imran at-Tinmalali, also Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Mussa or Abu Yahya ibn al-Hakam ar-Raschid , is referred to in Christian sources as Abu Iehie or Aboheihe . The addition to the name at-Tinmalali testifies that Abu Yahya had roots in Tinmal , the Moroccan capital of the Almohads from 1121 to 1147.

Almudaina Royal Palace; former Ksar, which was structurally changed from 1281.

In September 1203 the Almohads had prevailed over the Almoravid Ghaniyids on Mallorca, whose last ruler Abd Allah ibn Ishaq ibn Ghaniya was executed and then in 1208 Abu Yahya was installed as the new governor (Wālī). But after the devastating defeat for the Almohads in the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212, Abu Yahya was able to rule the archipelago in a relatively independent manner with only a purely formal submission to the Almohadenemir - until the conquest of Mallorca in 1229. He resided in the Almudaina Palace and ruled over the entire Balearic Islands .

Abu Yahya fell into the hands of Christians when the armed forces of King James I of Aragón conquered the island's capital Madīnat Mayūrqa (today's Palma de Mallorca ) on New Year's Eve 1229 after a four-month siege . He had previously made them an offer to hand over the town intact and to pay a price per capita equivalent to four chickens for the transport of the Muslim islanders to North Africa. Jacob I had agreed to this offer, but it had been rejected by the majority of the men in his army, because they had hoped that the storming and sacking of the city would make a lot more profit. Nothing is known about Abu Yahya's fate after the conquest, as he is no longer mentioned in the sources. It is believed that he attacked the Catalans with his remaining fleet, was captured and tortured and then died from his injuries. Abu Yahya died in February 1230.

Abu Yahya's reign and his defeat against the Christian conquerors under James I is described in detail by the historian Ibn Amira in his book Kitab Tarikh Mayūrqa .

Abu Yahya left a son aged thirteen in 1229. He was baptized in 1234 in the Catedral de la Seo in Saragossa and rose as Jaime de Gotor to Baron von Gotor and Baron von Illueca in 1250 and 1251 respectively . He married Elvira Roldán, the daughter of Martin Roldán and his wife María López de Luna and became the progenitor of the Gotor family.

literature

• Heide Wetzel-Zollmann and Wolfgang Wetzel: Mallorca. A journey through 6,000 years of history and culture. Andratx 2008, ISBN 84-609-1434-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Enrique Martínez Ruíz and Emilio de Diego: Del imperio almohade al nacimiento de Granada (1200-1265)

predecessor	Office	successor
Abu Abd Allah ibn Abi Hafs ibn Abd al-Moomin	Wālī of Mallorca 1208–1229