Yahya ibn Ali ibn Ghaniya (Arabic: يحيى بن علي بن غانية), more commonly known as Ibn Ghaniya,[1] was governor of Valencia and Murcia (1133-1145) and of al-Andalus (1146-1148).
It seems that he had a single combat with the Aragonese king Alfonso the Battler, whom he mortally wounded.
[4] When the Taifa revolts against the Almoravids broke out, Yahya ibn Ali ibn Ghaniya commanded the Almoravid troops[5] and faced the revolt but ended up fleeing to Almería.
[6] In 1146 he unsuccessfully defended Córdoba against Alfonso VII of León and Castile, of whom he eventually declared himself a vassal.
[5] After the Almohad landing on Cádiz in 1146, he was one of the last defenders of the Almoravids and he died in Granada in 1148.