Yahya ibn al-Qasim

Template:Short description Template:Infobox royalty Yahya III ibn al-Qasim (Template:Langx) was an Idrisid ruler.

Life

Yahya was the son of al-Qasim, a younger son of the second Idrisid ruler, Idris II (Template:Reign).Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn The family of al-Qasim controlled northern Morocco, with the cities of Tangier, Basra and Ceuta,Template:Sfn and for a time in the 860s even the western half of the Idrisid capital, Fes.Template:Sfn

Known by the sobriquet al-Miqdam, Yahya was called upon for assistance by the inhabitants of the Qaraqiyyin quarter of Fes when the town was occupied by the Kharijite rebel Abd al-Razzaq.Template:Sfn Yahya drove the rebels away, and is traditionally accounted as the eighth Idrisid emir, until his death in 905.Template:Sfn

Modern historians on the other hand consider that his rule over Fes is unlikely to have lasted long: his uncle, Dawud, appears to have ruled the city in 877, while numismatic evidence shows that between 880 and 893 the capital was ruled by members of a different branch of the Idrisid dynasty, descending from another uncle, Isa.Template:Sfn

Yahya fell in battle in 905 against the forces of a cousin from a different branch of the dynasty, Yahya IV.Template:Sfn

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