Muhammad III of Granada

Muhammad III (1257–1314), called al-Makhlu, the Deposed, ruled the Nasrid Emirate of Granada from 1302. He captured Bedmar from Castile in 1303 and became Ferdinand IV's vassal in 1304. In 1306 he seized Ceuta from the Marinids, driving Castile, the Marinids and Aragon into coalition.

Nearly blind and dominated by vizier Ibn al-Hakim, he was deposed in 1309 in favour of his half-brother Nasr. After two restoration plots, he was drowned in an Alhambra pool in 1314. A poet, he built the Partal Palace and the Alhambra's Great Mosque.