Muhammad ibn Lubb ibn Musa (, k. outskirts of
Zaragoza, 898), was a
Muslim
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lord who at different times held
Zaragoza and
Larida,
[ Mestre, 1998: p. 722, entry: "Muhammad ibn Llop"] on the
Upper March of
Al-Andalus.
Family
Muhammad was son of
Lubb ibn Musa (and thus grandson of the famous
Musa ibn Musa ibn Qasi
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 ...
), from the prominent
Muwallad Muslim
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Banu Qasi
The Banu Qasi, Banu Kasi, Beni Casi ( ar, بني قسي or بنو قسي, meaning "sons" or "heirs of Cassius"), Banu Musa, or al-Qasawi were a Muladí (local convert) dynasty that in the 9th century ruled the Upper March, a frontier ter ...
clan, of
Visigothic or
Hispano-Roman extraction. His mother was ʿAjub al-Balatuyya (
Arabic: عَجَب البَلاطيَّة). He had at least six sons,
Lubb, Musa, Yusuf, Abd Allah, Yunus and Mutarrif.
Biography
When his father and his uncles rebelled against
emir Muhammad I of Córdoba, Muhammad ibn Lubb supported the emir leading an army that defeated his own uncle,
Isma'il ibn Musa.
In 882, he had already conquered Zaragoza, where attempted to rule independent of Córdoba
lord,
but faced with constant pressure of the
Arab Banu Tujib clan ( ar, بنو تجيب), he was forced to sell Zaragoza to the emir by 885.
acted as intermediary in the transfer.
After further family disputes, and with the ascendancy of
Abd Allah
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to the throne of Córdoba, Muhammad's pact with the new emir led to his appointment as ''
wali'' of Larida, contrarily to the pretensions that the ''wali'' of
Huesca,
Muhammad al-Tawil Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik al-Tawil ( ar, محمد بن عبد الملك الطويل, died 913 or 914) was a Muwallad Wāli of Huesca and a prominent Muslim lord in the Upper March ( ar, الثغر الأعلى , ''Aṯ-Ṯaḡr al-Aʿlà'') ...
.
Muhammad ibn Lubb then ceded control of Larida to his son Lubb.
In 897, Muhammad conquered
Toledo
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Bolivia
* Toledo, Orur ...
,
and in 898 he initiated a new
military campaign
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to recover Zaragoza, but he was killed during its siege,
surprised by an enemy warrior while he was resting, on October 8.
[ A. Cañada, 1980: p. 68-70] Muhammad was succeeded by his son Lubb, who continued his siege of Zaragoza. His son Yunus briefly controlled Monzón but was unable to hold it against Muhammad al-Tawil. Quarrels among Muhammad ibn Lubb's sons and grandchildren, along with pressure from the Kingdom of Pamplona to the north and the Emirate of Córdoba to the south would lead to the complete dismantling of Banu Qasi power throughout the
Ebro valley.
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