Abu Yahya may refer to: Abu Yahya (author) (born 1969), Pakistani writer and novelist. Abu Yahya ibn Abd al-Haqq (died c. 1258), Marinid ruler Abu Yahya al-Libi (1963–2012), Islamist ideologue and leading high-ranking official within al-Qaeda Abdul Rahman Saleem (born c. 1975), British-Iranian Islamic activist Zakariya al-Qazwini (1203–1283), Persian physician Abu Talib Yahya (951–1033), imam of the Zaydiyyah sect in 1020–1033 Abu Zakariya Yahya al-Wattasi (died 1448), vizier of the Marinid sultan of Fez, regent and effective strongman ruler of Morocco from 1420 until 1448 Yaghmurasen Ibn Zyan (1206–1283), founder of the Abdelwadid dynasty Abu Zakariya (1203–1249), the founder and first ruler of the Hafsid dynasty in Ifriqiya Abu Yahya Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abi Imran al-Tinmalali, the last Muslim governor of Majorca before its conquest by James I of Aragon in 1229