Ibn Tafrājin

The Ibn Tafrājin were an Almohad sheikhly family of Hafsid Ifriqiya, remembered above all for Abu Muhammad Abd Allah ibn Tafrājin, the power behind the Hafsid throne in Tunis in the mid-fourteenth century. He became chief chamberlain in 1343, steering the court toward the Marinids, who had become its neighbours after conquering Tlemcen in 1337.

When a succession murder brought chaos in 1346 and 1347, he welcomed the invasion of the Marinid sultan Abu al-Hasan and then, after the Marinids withdrew, emerged as the most influential of the Almohad sheikhs.

In December 1349 he placed al-Fadl Ahmad II on the throne, deposed him the next year and ruled in the name of the young sultan Abu Ishaq Ibrahim until his own death in 1364.