Abu Zakariya Yahya III

Abu Zakariya Yahya III (c. 1260–1301) was the Hafsid emir who made Béjaïa independent of Tunis. A son of the caliph Abu Ishaq Ibrahim I, he fled to Tlemcen after his family's overthrow in 1283 but established himself at Béjaïa soon after. In 1285 he revolted with Arab tribal support and seized the western Hafsid lands including Constantine.

In 1286 he attacked Tunis itself; repulsed, he fled south. In 1300 he repulsed a Marinid siege of Béjaïa. He died in 1301 and was succeeded by his son Abu-l-Baqa Khalid.