Abu Inan Faris

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Abu Inan Faris Arabic: أبو عنان فارس بن علي‎ (born in 1329) was a Marinid ruler. He succeeded his father Abu al-Hasan ibn Uthman as sultan of Morocco in 1348. He died strangled by its vizier in 1358.

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He took the title of “commander of the believers” (Amir al-muminin). He had to eliminate one of his nephews who had seized the power in Fes.

In 1348 and under his ruling, the Black Death and the rebellions of Tlemcen (nowadays a city in Algeria) and Tunis marked the beginning of the decline of the Marinids which will not manage to drive back the Portuguese and the Spaniards, thus allowing them, by the means of the Marinids successors Wattasids settling on the coast.

Abu Inan built the Bou Inania's madrasa in Meknes in 1350. He then could reseize Tlemcen in 1351 and Bougie in 1352 before being defeated in 1357 and killed next year by one of his viziers. He had also built another madrasa in Fes in 1357.