Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Ghaniya

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Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Ghaniya ( Arabic محمد بن علي بن غانية, DMG muḥammad ibn 'alī ibn ġānīya ; died 1155 ) was from 1126 to 1146 Wālī and from 1146 to 1155 emir in the Taifa of Mallorca .

ancestry

Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Ghaniya, fully Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Yusuf ibn Ghaniya or sometimes just Muhammad ibn Ghaniya , was a son of the Almoravid ruler Ali ibn Yusuf ibn Tashfin and his wife Ghaniya , a princess of the Sanhajah Berber. He had a brother named Yahya , who in turn was Wālī in the Taifa of Valencia and the Taifa of Murcia . His sons were Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Ghaniya and Ishaq ibn Muhammad ibn Ghaniya .

Life

After the death of Wanur ibn Bakr in 1126, his father Ali ibn Yusuf sent Muhammad to Mallorca as governor to restore order there, which had been lost after the Christian invasion in 1114. However, Muhammad had great difficulty in mastering the revolts.

His family had settled in Mallorca after the troops of Raimund Berengar III. , the later Count of Barcelona , had withdrawn. In reprisal for piracy from the Balearic Islands, Madina Mayurqa ( Palma de Mallorca ) was plundered and destroyed by a united army of Catalans, Pisans, Provençals and members of other Italian towns.

Muhammad ruled the Balearic Islands , which were then known as the Eastern Islands of al-Andalus , independently as Muhammad I from 1146 and even after the fall of the Almoravids in 1148 retained his independence from the Almohads . The island archipelago was the last bastion in relation to the incessant advance of the Almohads and therefore attracted many refugees from al-Andalus who tried to escape the religious rigor of the Almohads.

Muhammad I and his son and heir to the throne Abd Allah fell victim to a palace intrigue in 1155 that had been instigated by his other son Ishaq and who then took power in Mallorca.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Javier Lacosta: Mallorca 1229: la visión de los vencidos . Junta islámica, 1999.
  2. ↑ Enciclopèdia d'Eivissa i Formentera: Muhammad ibn 'Alí ibn Yusuf ibn Ganiya (in Catalan) . Consell Insular d'Eivissa i Formentera.
  3. ↑ Boletin de la Real Academia de la Historia: El altar mayor de la Catedral d Mallorca . TOMO CLXXIII, NUMERO I, 1976, p. 45 .
predecessor Office successor
Wanur ibn Abi-Bakr Emir of Mallorca
1146–1155 		Ishaq ibn Muhammad ibn Ghaniya
personal data
SURNAME Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Ghaniya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Muhammad I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Emir of Mallorca
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century or 12th century
DATE OF DEATH 1155
Place of death Madina Mayurqa