Al-Qasim Jannun ibn Muhammad (Arabic: القاسم جنون بن محمد) was an Idrisid ruler in Morocco in 937–949.

Al-Qasim I
القاسم الأول
Emir of Morocco
Reign937–949
Predecessoral-Hasan al-Hajjam
SuccessorAbu'l-Aysh ibn al-Qasim Jannun
Died949
Names
al-Qasim Jannun ibn Muhammad
DynastyIdrisid
ReligionIslam

Al-Qasim descended from a cadet branch of the Idrisid dynasty: his grandfather, al-Qasim, was a younger son of the dynasty's second ruler, Idris II.[1] At the beginning of the 10th century, Idrisid ruler in Morocco collapsed, amidst civil war between the various branches of the Idrisid family and the rival Abu Sahl family, Kharijite uprisings, invasion by the newly established Fatimid Caliphate, along with the intervention of the Umayyad Caliphate of Cordoba.[1][2] A complicated power struggle ensued in the 930s. Al-Qasim, who ruled parts of the north of the country, initially sided with the Fatimids against the renegade Fatimid general Musa ibn Abi'l-Afiya.[1] With Fatimid assistance, Ibn Abi'l-Afiya was defeated and killed, allowing al-Qasim to establish an autonomous emirate in the northern parts of the country, in the Rif Mountains and beyond, including Basra, Azayla, and Tangier.[1][3] Initially under Fatimid suzerainty, after 944 he shifted towards the Umayyads.[1]

On his death in 949, al-Qasim was succeeded by his sons, Abu'l-Aysh and al-Hasan.[1][3]

Genealogy

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Idrisid dynasty

Emirs of Morocco
Caliphs of Córdoba
Emirs of Algericas
Emirs of Málaga

Abd al-Muttalib
ibn Hashim
Abu Talib ibn
Abd al-Muttalib
Abdullah ibn
Abd al-Muttalib
Muhammad
ibn Abd Allah
Ali ibn
Abi Talib
Fatima bint
Muhammad
al-Hasan
ibn Ali
al-Hasan
ibn al-Hasan
Abd Allah
ibn al-Hasan
Idris I
al-Akbar

r. 788-791
Idris II
r. 803-828
Muhammad I
r. 828-836
Umar ibn Idrisal-Qasim
ibn Idris
Dawud
r. c. 877
Ali I
r. 836-849
Yahya I
r. 849-863
Ali II
r. 866-?
Idris ibn UmarUbayd Allah
ibn Umar
Yahya III
r. ?-905
Muhammad
ibn al-Qasim
Yahya II
r. 863-866
Yahya IV
r. 905-922
Ali ibn
Ubayd Allah
al-Hasan I
al-Hajjam

r. 928–930
al-Qasim
Kanun

r. 937-949
Hammud
ibn Ali
Abu al-Aysh
Ahmad

r. 948-954
al-Hasan II
r. 954-974
Maymun
ibn Hammud
Hammud
ibn Maymun
al-Qasim
al-Ma'mun

r. 1018-1021,
1023
Ali al-Nasir
r. 1016-1018
Muhammad
al-Mahdi

r. 1035-1048
Idris I
al-Muta'ayyad

r. 1035-1039
Yahya I
al-Mu'tali

r. 1021-1023,
1025-1026
r. 1026-1035
al-Qasim
al-Wathiq

r. 1048-1054
Muhammad I
al-Mahdi

r. 1047-1053
Yahya II
al-Qa'im

r. 1039-1040
Idris II al-Ali
r. 1042-1047,
1053-1054/5
Hasan
al-Mustansir

r. 1040-1042
Idris III
al-Sami

r. 1053
Muhammad II
al-Musta'li

r. 1054/5
Abd Allah
ibn Idris
Muhammad
ibn Abd Allah
Muhammad
ibn Muhammad
al-Idrisi


References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Benchekroun 2018.
  2. ^ Eustache 1971, pp. 1035–1036.
  3. ^ a b Eustache 1971, p. 1036.

Sources

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  • Benchekroun, Chafik T. (2018). "Idrīsids". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd ed.). Brill Online. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_32374. ISSN 1873-9830.
  • Eustache, D. (1971). "Idrīsids". In Lewis, B.; Ménage, V. L.; Pellat, Ch. & Schacht, J. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume III: H–Iram. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 1035–1037. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_3495. OCLC 495469525.
Vacant
Fatimid conquest
Title last held by
Hasan I al-Hajjam
Idrisid emir of Morocco
937–949
Succeeded by