 He was confirmed as Almohad Caliph in election by the Almohad sheikhs after his father’s death, and took up the caliphal title ""al-Mustansir bi-Llah"" ("he who seeks the aid of God").Yusuf’s mother was a Christian slave Qamar.Young and pleasure-loving, Yusuf II left the governing of the Almohad empire to a carefully balanced oligarchy composed of older family members, like his father's brothers in al-Andalus and his grand-cousin Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abi Hafs in Ifriqiya, Marrakesh palace bureaucrats such as the vizier Abu Sa‘id Uthman ibn Jam‘i and the leading sheikhs of the Almohad Masmuda tribes.