15 January 1391 – 5 October 1392 (10 Safar 793 – 16 Dhu al-Qa'da 794 AH)
Predecessor
Muhammad V
Successor
Muhammad VII
Born
c. 1356
Died
5 October 1392 (age about 36) Granada
Spouse
Several, names unknown; Khadija (possible)
Issue
Yusuf III Muhammad VII Ali Ahmad Ismail III (possible) Umm al-Fath (II)
Names
أبو الحجاج يوسف بن محمد ʾAbū al-Hajjāj Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad
Dynasty
Nasrid
Father
Muhammad V
Religion
Islam
Political map of the Emirate of Granada
Abu al-Hajjaj Yusuf ibn Muhammad (Arabic: أبو الحجاج يوسف بن محمد; c. 1356 – 5 October 1392) was sultan of the Emirate of Granada, the last Muslim state in the Iberian Peninsula, from January 1391 until his death. He was the 11th sultan of the Nasrid dynasty and the first son of his predecessor, Muhammad V (r. 1354–1359, 1362–1391).
When Yusuf was about three years old, his father was dethroned and the family went into exile in Fez, the capital of the Marinid Sultanate of Morocco. His father regained the throne in 1362 and the young Yusuf was given command of the Volunteers of the Faith, a corps of North African soldiers available to fight for the emirate. He became sultan after his father's death in 1391. Yusuf's government was initially dominated by his minister, Khalid, until Khalid was suspected of conspiring against the sultan and executed. Yusuf then took control of his government and appointed the poet Ibn Zamrak, his father's vizier (whom he had imprisoned), as his vizier in July 1392.
Yusuf continued his father's peace treaty with Granada's neighbour Castile and signed a treaty with another Christian neighbour, John I of Aragon (r. 1387–1396), in August 1392. He died on 5 October 1392, after less than two years on the throne. A medieval Christian writer said that he was killed by a poisoned tunic given to him by the Marinid Sultan Abu al-Abbas Ahmad. Yusuf's death by poisoning is considered plausible by modern historians, but the report's veracity is doubted and may be exaggerated; no other sources corroborate the account. He was succeeded by his son Muhammad VII (r. 1392–1408) and by another son, Yusuf III (r. 1408–1417).
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