Muhammad I (822–886) () was the ''Umayyad''
emir of Córdoba
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from 852 to 886 in the
Al-Andalus
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(
Moorish
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Moors are not a distinct or se ...
Iberia
The Iberian Peninsula (),
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* Aragonese and Occitan: ''Peninsula Iberica''
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* french: Péninsule Ibérique
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).
Biography
Muhammad was born in
Córdoba. His reign was marked by several revolts and separatist movements of the
Muwallad (Muslims of ethnic Iberian origin) and
Mozarab
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s (Christians living in the Muslim controlled areas).
The
Banu Qasi
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Muwallad family, led by
Musa ibn Musa
Musa ibn Musa al-Qasawi ( also nicknamed ''the Great'' (); died 26 September 862) was leader of the Muwallad Banu Qasi clan and ruler of a semi-autonomous principality in the upper Ebro valley in northern Iberia in the 9th century.
Rise
Musa ibn ...
, allied with the Arista family of the
Kingdom of Navarre
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The medieval state took ...
, and rebelled, proclaiming himself "third king of Spain" (after Muhammad and
Ordoño I of Asturias). The rebel Umayyad officer
Ibn Marwan
‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Marwān al-Jillīqī ('','' also known as or "the Galician") (died ca. 889), was a Muwallad whose family had come from northern Portugal and settled near Mérida.
In 868, leading a host of Muwallads and Mozarabs, ...
returned to
Mérida and also rebelled against the emir who, unable to quash the revolt, allowed him to found a free city (
Badajoz
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, in what is now the Spanish region of
Extremadura
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) in 875. Finally,
Toledo rebelled with the support of Ordoño I, but was defeated in the battle of Guazalete.
He engaged in diplomacy with
Charles the Bald
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, the
Carolingian
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king of the
West Franks
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, sending him camels in 865.
In 880
Umar ibn Hafsun
Umar ibn Hafsun ibn Ja'far ibn Salim ( ar, عمر بن حَفْصُون بن جَعْفَ بن سالم) (c. 850 – 917), known in Spanish history as Omar ben Hafsun, was a 9th-century political and military leader ...
, a man of probable Visigothic or African origin, also started a revolt which was only suppressed in 928, under
Abd ar-Rahman III ibn Muhammad.
Muhammad I died in 886, being succeeded by his son
al-Mundhir ibn Muhammad I.
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823 births
886 deaths
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