Yusuf IV.

Yusuf IV. († April 1432 ; also Yusuf ibn al-Mawl, Spanish Abenalmao ) was Emir of Granada in 1432 .

Yusuf ibn al-Mawl, a grandson of Muhammad VI on his mother's side . , was during the power struggles under Muhammad IX. forced to flee to Castile . When this his former ally Muhammad IX. dropped, Yusuf was appointed as the new candidate for the throne in Granada . By a Castilian campaign (1430-1431), in which Muhammad IX. was defeated in the battle of La Higueruela , the Castilians were able to assert Yusuf as emir. On January 1, 1432, one day after the flight of Muhammad IX, he ascended the throne as Yusuf IV. Yusuf publicly renewed Granada's vassalage to Castile and announced that he would resume tribute payments . Many cities in the emirate, such as Almería , Málaga and Ronda , then refused to follow Yusuf, so that Muhammad IX. could continue to claim there. In Granada itself, too, Islamic legal scholars incited the population against Yusuf, in whom they saw a puppet of Castile, and riots broke out. There are different statements about the exact end of Yusuf, just a few months after his accession to the throne. Gutierre Diez de Games writes in his El Victorial that Yusuf was captured and lynched by insurgents. In contrast, the Chronicle of the Falconer states that Yusuf was sent to Muhammad IX. handed over, who immediately had him executed. Muhammad IX at any rate, he was able to regain power in the Nasrid Empire .

Yusuf's life found a literary echo in numerous contemporary poems, including the Romance de Abenámar , a narrative or romance that depicts a fictional dialogue between Yusuf and King John II of Castile .

literature

• Thomas Freller: Granada. Kingdom between Orient and Occident. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-0825-4 .
• Arnold Hottinger : The Moors. Arabic culture in Spain . Fink, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7705-3075-6 .

Remarks

1. ↑ Maḥmūd ʿAlī Makkī: The Nasrid Granada. In: Almut von Gladiß (ed.): Treasures of the Alhambra: Islamic art in Andalusia. [Exhibition in the special exhibition halls at the Kulturforum Berlin, October 29, 1995 to March 3, 1996.] Exhibition catalog. Skira, Milan 1995, ISBN 88-8118-034-0 , p. 53.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Leonard Patrick Harvey: Islamic Spain, 1250 to 1500. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1992, ISBN 0-226-31962-8 , p. 252 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
3. ^ The glory of Granada at Zeno.org .. German adaptation in Johann Gottfried Herder's Voices of the Nations in Songs , 1778

predecessor	Office	successor
Muhammad IX	Emir of Granada 1432	Muhammad IX