Fou Yusuf V ibn Ahmad, rei de Granada, l'infant Coix de les cròniques castellanes?

Abstract

Historiography has traditionally assumed that the Granada's infante Cojo that appears in the Castilian chronicles was Muhammad X ibn Utman, and it had identifyed Yusuf ibn Ahmad with the also chronistical infante Aben lsmail. M. Charouiti's PHD, that edits and studies a Granada's writer lbn Asim work that had been considered missing, proves that Yusuf and lsmail were two different people. A revision of the information that this work gives together with new data obtained in catalan archives and of the Cojo's presence in Castilian chronicles, that never designate him as Muhammad, permits to discover that Yusuf V ibn Ahmad could be the chronistical infante Cojo and, in case, that the conjectural existence of Muhammad X el Cojo has been produced by Granada's XVth. century sultans homonymy, by lack of precision in their succession and by the long traditional mistakes commited by attributing them their appellatives.