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Yusuf II (also Abu Yaqub al-Mustansir Yusuf, 1197 – 1224) was Caliph of Morocco from 1213 until his death. Son of the previous caliph, Muhammad an-Nasir
Muhammad an-Nasir

Muhammad an-N?sir , date of birth unknown. He succeeded his father, Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur, as Almohad caliph in 1198. He died in 1213....
, Yusuf assumed the throne following his father's death, at the age of only sixteen years.

Yusuf followed his father in leaving Ifriqiya
Ifriqiya

In Middle Ages, Ifriqiya or Ifriqiyah was the area comprising the coastal regions of what are today western Libya, Tunisia, and eastern Algeria....
 in the hands of governor Abū Muhammad ben Abī Hafs, further contributing to its eventual breakaway under the Hafsid dynasty
Hafsid dynasty

Hafsid was a dynasty ruling Ifriqiya from 1229 to 1574....
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Yusuf II (also Abu Yaqub al-Mustansir Yusuf, 1197 – 1224) was Caliph of Morocco from 1213 until his death. Son of the previous caliph, Muhammad an-Nasir
Muhammad an-Nasir

Muhammad an-N?sir , date of birth unknown. He succeeded his father, Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur, as Almohad caliph in 1198. He died in 1213....
, Yusuf assumed the throne following his father's death, at the age of only sixteen years.

Yusuf followed his father in leaving Ifriqiya
Ifriqiya

In Middle Ages, Ifriqiya or Ifriqiyah was the area comprising the coastal regions of what are today western Libya, Tunisia, and eastern Algeria....
 in the hands of governor Abū Muhammad ben Abī Hafs, further contributing to its eventual breakaway under the Hafsid dynasty
Hafsid dynasty

Hafsid was a dynasty ruling Ifriqiya from 1229 to 1574....
. Yusuf was soon challenged for the control of the Maghreb
Maghreb

The Maghreb , also rendered Maghrib , meaning "place of sunset" or "western" in Arabic, is a region in North Africa. The term is generally applied to all of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, but in older Arabic usage pertained only to the area of the three countries between the high ranges of the Atlas Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea....
 as well as Morocco itself by the growing power of the Marinid
Marinid

The Anglicised name used for this article derives from the Arabic Banu Marin .The Marinid dynasty was a Berber dynasty formed in 1244....
 dynasty. The sheikhs of Marrakesh attempted to invoke a clause allowing the selection of a new caliph, further contributing to the political instability.

Yusuf was succeeded by Abdul-Wahid I
Abdul-Wahid I, Almohad Caliph

Abu Muhammad Abdul-Wahid I was King of Morocco for less than a year in 1224. Soon after succeeding his father, the Almohad Caliph Yusuf II, Almohad Caliph, to the throne, Abdul-Wahid I was strangled....
 following his death in 1224.

Viziers

Yusuf had three vizier
Vizier

A Vizier , is a term for a high-ranking political advisor or minister, often to a Muslim monarch such as a Caliph, or Sultan. It sometimes refers to ministers and advisors of the Persian Empire's Shahs....
s in the first year of his reign:

  • Abū Sa`īd ben Jām`i (1214-1214) (also vizier to Muhammad an-Nāsir)
  • Abū Yahyā al-Hizrajīy (1214-1214) (??? ???? ???????)
  • Abū `Alī ben Achrafīy (1214-1214) (??? ??? ?? ?????)
  • Abū Sa`īd ben Jām`i (again) (1214-1223)


Abū Sa`īd ben Jām`i would also serve as vizier to Abdul-Wahid I.