father dynasty predecessor successor death_date religion title article_title name reign
yaqub al-mansur almohad abdul-wahid i yahya october 4 , 1227 islam caliph of morocco abdallah al-adil
 al-adil september 1224 - october 4 , 1227
abdallah al-adil

abu muhammad ` abdallah ` al-adil ' -lrb- '' ` abd allāh '' ; d.october 4 , 1227 -rrb- was an almohad caliph of morocco , a former governor in al-andalus who challenged and secured the murder of his predecessor , abd al-wahid i. his 1224 coup ushered in a period of instability that lasted well beyond his own death in 1227 .
he is often regarded as one of the most disastrous of almohad caliphs .
his coup divided the almohads and set in motion the loss of al-andalus and the eventual collapse of the almohad state .
