Banu Salamah (Tribe)
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The Banu Salama ( ar, بني سلمة) were an
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i family that governed the regions of
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and Barbitanya (
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) in the
Upper March The Upper March (in ar, الثغر الأعلى, ''aṯ-Tagr al-A'la''; in Spanish: ''Marca Superior'') was an administrative and military division in northeast Al-Andalus, roughly corresponding to the Ebro valley and adjacent Mediterranean coa ...
of
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from c. 780-800 CE. In 800, the former ally of the Banu Salama,
Bahlul Ibn Marzuq Bahlul Ibn Marzuq () (died 802) was born in the current term of La Puebla de Castro (Huesca), was a Vascones, Vascon-Muslim, the son of a local lord named Marzuq ibn Uskara ("son of the Basque people, Basque"). He rebelled in Zaragoza against the Ar ...
, rebelled in
Zaragoza Zaragoza, also known in English as Saragossa,''Encyclopædia Britannica'"Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)" is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributari ...
, defeating the Banu Salama's Arab allies along with the Banu Qasi in battle, taking the region and deposing the Banu Salama. Instrumental to their removal was the popular support garnered by Ibn Marzuq after public backing by theologian
Ibn al-Mughallis Abdallāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad (), better known as Ibn al-Mughallis (), was a medieval Arab Muslim theologian and jurist.Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari, History of the Prophets and Kings, trans. Franz Rosenthal. Vol. 1: General Introductio ...
.Göran Larsson, ''Ibn García's Shuʻūbiyya Letter: Ethnic and Theological Tensions in Medieval al-Andalus'', pgs. 77-78. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2003.


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