Badis ibn Habus ( ar, باديس بن حبوس) was the third

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king of the Taifa of Granada and the founder of the

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palace. He ruled between 1038 and 1073.

Biography

A member of the Berber Zirid dynasty, Badis ibn Habus succeeded to the throne of the Taifa of Granada upon the death of his father, Habbus al-Muzaffar, in spite of a conspiracy on the part of the Granada court that supported his cousin Yaddair ben Hubasa as a successor to Habbus. The plot failed, however, thanks to Habbus's

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, the Jew,

Samuel ibn Naghrillah Samuel ibn Naghrillah (, ''Sh'muel HaLevi ben Yosef HaNagid''; ''ʾAbū ʾIsḥāq ʾIsmāʿīl bin an-Naghrīlah''), also known as Samuel HaNagid (, ''Shmuel HaNagid'', lit. ''Samuel the Prince'') and Isma’il ibn Naghrilla (born 993; died 1056 ...

, who made certain that Badis succeeded Habbus, thus reinforcing his own position in the kingdom. In 1038, following a confrontation with Zuhayr, the king of the

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, Badis ibn Habus took control of the territory of the Taifa of Almeria and the following year managed to curb the expansionist ambitions of the king of the

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, whom he defeated in battle at

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, in alliance with the

Taifa of Málaga The Taifa of Málaga () was an Islamic Moorish taifa kingdom located in what is now southern Spain. It existed during four distinct time periods: from 1026 to 1057, 1073 to 1090, 1145 to 1153, and 1229 to 1239, when the polity was finally conquere ...

and the

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. In 1057, Badis ibn Habus won the Taifa of Málaga, annexing that kingdom and installing his firstborn son, Buluggin ibn Badis, as its governor. Nevertheless, Buluggin ibn Badis would not succeed his father as head of the Taifa of Granada, since he died in 1064 as a result of poisoning. The death of the firstborn placed Badis ibn Habus's second child, Maksan ibn Badis, as heir to the throne. After the death of the vizier Joseph ibn Nagrela, the position of vizier to the king was occupied by the Arab Al-Naya. After Al-Naya's assassination by Abu-l-Rabbi, a Mozárab, Abu-l-Rabbi successfully maneuvered Badis ibn Habus to appoint his grandson

Abdallah ibn Buluggin Abdallah ibn Buluggin (), full name:ʿAbd Allāh ben Buluggīn ben Bādīs ben Ḥabūs ben Zīrī (1056–after 1090), also known as "Al-Muzaffar" (the conqueror), was the grandson of Badis ben Habus and the last Zirid ruler of the Taifa of Gra ...

as his successor, rather than his son Maksan, who had lost Jaén at the hands of the Taifa of Seville, and was a refugee in the

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. Abdallah ibn Buluggin finally succeeded Badis when he died in 1073.

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