The Role of the Wattasids in the Marinid State

(668-869 AH/1269-1465 AD)

Abstract

The Wattasid state was one of the states that ruled Al-Aqsa Maghreb for the period (869-916 AH / 1465-1510 AD). Its rule came at a time of turmoil in the political situation as a result of the beginning of the Portuguese and Spanish occupation of the Moroccan coasts before the fall of the Kingdom of Granada in the year 897 AH / 1492 AD. The research deals with the role of the Banu Wattas family during Marinid era (668-869 AH / 1269-1465 AD), and how they contributed to political life alongside the Marinids, the actions they did to achieve independence from them or eliminate them, and the political events that accompanied them, As they shared the rule from the beginning of their establishment, a number of them assumed the position of minister at many different times, and the accompanying ambitions of the Banu Wattas to gain independence from them and establish their state, and the acts of treachery that the Wattasians committed towards the Banu Marin and the position of the princes and sultans of the Banu Marin towards them, and how this family constituted a burden on them. The Marinid state until the events ended with the arrival of the Wattasids to power and the fall of the Marinid state.