Al-Qasim Jannun

Al-Qasim I القاسم الأول
Emir of Morocco
Reign	937–949
Predecessor	al-Hasan al-Hajjam
Successor	Abu'l-Aysh ibn al-Qasim Jannun
Died	949
Names al-Qasim Jannun ibn Muhammad
Dynasty	Idrisid
Religion	Islam

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

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. 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. 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. 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. Initially under Fatimid suzerainty, after 944 he shifted towards the Umayyads.

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

Genealogy

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 Idris al-Qasim ibn Idris Dawud r. c. 877 Ali I r. 836-849 Yahya I r. 849-863 Ali II r. 866-? Idris ibn Umar Ubayd 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

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