Abu Tashufin I

Abu Tashufin I (c. 1295–1337), born Abd al-Rahman, was the Zayyanid sultan of Tlemcen, who in 1318 took the throne by overthrowing and killing his father Abu Hammu Musa I.

In 1329 he marched east into Ifriqiya, captured Algiers, defeated the Hafsids at er-Rais and occupied their capital Tunis. A Marinid–Hafsid alliance then turned against him and besieged Tlemcen from 1335; Abu Tashufin was killed in the siege in 1337.

The Marinid Abu al-Hasan held the city until 1348, when Abu Tashufin's sons retook it. In his capital he founded the Tashfiniya Madrasa, among the best-known schools of the Zayyanids, who were the first to patronise madrasas in that part of the Maghreb.