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b. Abī Ḥammū Mūsā , sovereign of the ʿAbd al-Wādid dynasty. Born in Rabīʿ I 752/April-May 1351, he passed his youth in Nedroma. After the flight of Abū Ḥammū II to Tunis, the Marīnid sultan Abū. ʿInān sent him to Fez; he returned to Tlemcen only in 760/1359. In spite of his father’s concessions to him, his impatience to acceed to the throne drove him to attempts to get rid of Abū Ḥammū. But Abū Ḥammū, put into prison in Oran, escaped; and when sent on pilgrimage, returned trium…

(a., masc. or fem.), a measure for grain "of the value of 4 mudd ( modius ) according to the custom of Medina" ( LʿA ; al-Ḵh̲wārazmī, Mafātīḥ al-ʿulūm , ed. Van Vloten, 14). If the cubic contents of the ṣāʿ , like that of the mudd, varied with town and district as far as commercial transactions were concerned, the value of the ṣāʿ was from the canonical point of view fixed in religious law by the Prophet in the year 2/623-4 when he laid down the ritual details of the orthodox feast of ʿīd al-fiṭr , which carried with it the compulsory giving of alms called zakāt al-fiṭr , the value of which in grain was one ṣāʿ…

Musa b. Abī Saʿīd ʿUt̲h̲mān b. Yag̲h̲murāsan , fourth king of the ʿAbd al-Wādid dynasty. Proclaimed on 21 S̲h̲awwāl 707/15 April 1308, he had first to repair the damage caused by the siege of Tlemcen by the Marīnids; he then prepared the defence of his capital against external attacks and fortified it in the expectation of a new siege. In the exterior, he restored his authority over the Banū Tūd̲j̲īn and the Mag̲h̲rāwa and pushed as far as Bid̲j̲āya (Bougie) and Constantine, while…

, ʿAbd al-Rahman b. Abī Ḥammū , fifth sovereign of the ʿAbd al-Wādid dynasty. Proclaimed 23 Ḏj̲umādā I 718/23 July 1318 after the murder of his father Abū Ḥammū I, he exiled to Spain all those of his relatives who could claim the throne and thus freed his hands to lay siege to Constantine and Bid̲j̲āya (Bougie) and to make an attempt at extending his kingdom towards the east. The Ḥafṣids, however, allied themselves with the Marīnids and the Marīnid sultan Abu ’l-Ḥasan seized Abu …

, Abū Zakariyyāʾ Yaḥyā , brother of the above, was born in Tunis about 734/1333, died at Tlemcen in Ramaḍān 780/December 1378-January 1379. Like his brother and probably with him, he devoted himself industriously to study in his native town and was intimate with all the important scholars of his time in the Ḥafṣid capital. To judge from his book (on which see below), he seems to have had a special preference for poetry and belles lettres. We know very little of his personality; the references are scattered in various sources, especially ʿAbd al-Raḥmān’s autobiography and that portion of the Ki…

Mūsā b. Abī YaʿḲūb Yūsuf b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Yaḥya b. Yag̲h̲murāsan , king of the ʿAbd al-Wādīd dynasty. Born is Spain in 723/1323-4, he was brought up at the court of Tlemcen. After the victory of the Marinid army over his uncles Abū Saʿid and Abū T̲h̲ābit, in Ḏj̲umādā I 753/June 1352, he had to take refuge with the Ḥafṣid court of Tūnis. When the relations between the Ḥafṣids and Marīnīds deteriorated, he was put at the head of an army and reconquered Tlemcen, where he was proclaime…

, or, according to Yāḳūt, Buldān , ed. Beirut, ii, 44, Tinimsān, conventionally Tlemcen , a town of western Algeria, situated in lat. 34° 53′ N., long. 1° 21′ W. between Oran/Wahrān [ q.v.] to the north-east (138 km/86 miles away), Sidi bel Abbès/Sīdī Bu ’l-ʿAbbās [ q.v.] to the east (91 km/56 miles) and the Moroccan frontier (63 km/40 miles). It is at the junction of the great national route linking Tunis with Oujda/Wad̲j̲da [ q.v.] and the “Gold and Ivory Road” connecting the Mediterranean (ports of Hunayn [ q.v. in Suppl.] to the west and Rachgoun, the ancient Ars̲h̲akūl, to the e…

, Nedroma , a small town of northwestern Algeria, situated 58 km/33 miles from Tlemcen, 45 km/28 miles from the Moroccan border and only 17 km/10 miles from the coast, from where in clear weather the dark mountains of the Sierra Nevada can be seen. It lies in the heart of the Traras, the coastal chain of moderate altitude, which is nevertheless very broken by the eroding effects of the hydrographic system, where Nedroma spreads along the lower slopes of the ridge of the D̲j̲.…