Abu Abdallah Muhammad IV al-Mutawakkil (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد المتوكل) was the Hafsid caliph of Ifriqiya from 1494 to 1526.
[3]: 368, 412–3 The main political and military events of his reign concerned the rise in corsairing and the Spanish invasion of the Hafsid domains.
[6][7] Their first success was the seizing a trading galley and its escort belonging to Pope Julius II off Elba in 1504, which he towed back into Tunis in triumph.
[5] The raids of the Barbary corsairs were one reason that prompted Spain to pursue the Reconquista across the Straits of Gibraltar into North Africa.
[12] After this Algiers became a base for Ottoman expansion and the former Hafsid domains of Béjaïa and Annaba were lost to them in 1522, while in 1520 Djerba fell to the Spanish under Hugo of Moncada.