Abu Abdallah Muhammad V () (4 January 1339
– 16 January 1391), known by the
regnal name
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al-Ghani bi'llah ( ar, الغني بالله, al-Ghanī bi-ʾllāh, He who is contented with God), was the eighth
Nasrid ruler of the
Emirate of Granada
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in
Al-Andalus
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on the
Iberian Peninsula
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Muhammad V was the eldest son and heir of Yusuf I by his slave Butayna, born on Sunday, 4 January 1339. He also had a younger full-blood sister, A'isha, two half brothers and five half-sisters. He ruled between 1354–1359 and 1362–1391, and is best known for completing the royal palace of the
Alhambra with the
Palace of the Lions and the
Mexuar
The Mexuar (; ) is a section of the Nasrid palace complex in the Alhambra of Granada, Spain. It served as the entrance wing of the Comares Palace, the official palace of the sultan and the state, and it housed various administrative functions. Af ...
, or ''Cuarto Dorado''.
Sultan
He inherited the throne from
Yusuf I
Abu al-Hajjaj Yusuf ibn Ismail ( ar, أبو الحجاج يوسف بن إسماعيل; 29 June 131819 October 1354), known by the regnal name al-Muayyad billah (, "He who is aided by God"), was the seventh Nasrid ruler of the Emirate of Grana ...
but was overthrown in August 1359 by his half-brother
Ismail II
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and sought protection with the
Marinid
The Marinid Sultanate was a Berber Muslim empire from the mid-13th to the 15th century which controlled present-day Morocco and, intermittently, other parts of North Africa (Algeria and Tunisia) and of the southern Iberian Peninsula (Spain) ar ...
sultan of
Fez
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* Fez, Morocco (or Fes), the second largest city of Morocco
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, where Muhammad was inspired with fresh examples of architecture. Isma'il was overthrown and murdered with his brother Qays less than a year later in 1360, by his brother-in-law, Abu Said, who ruled as
Muhammad VI but was overthrown in turn by Muhammad V, who returned to the throne for another 29 years.
During the three-year period of the reign of
Muhammad VI, Muhammad V was plotting his return to power. A chance came in 1362 when King
Peter I of Castile
Peter ( es, Pedro; 30 August 133423 March 1369), called the Cruel () or the Just (), was King of Castile and León from 1350 to 1369. Peter was the last ruler of the main branch of the House of Ivrea. He was excommunicated by Pope Urban V for ...
(Pedro el Cruel) lured Muhammad VI to his kingdom. There, in Seville, he was murdered and his head sent to Muhammad V as a gift upon his return to the throne. As a gesture of good relations between him and the Marinid, the eldest son of Muhammad V,
Yusuf II, married to a daughter of the Marinid Sultan. His hospital in Granada was completed in 1366. He employed the poet and diplomat
Ibn Khaldun in negotiations with
Pedro the Cruel
Peter ( es, Pedro; 30 August 133423 March 1369), called the Cruel () or the Just (), was King of Castile and León from 1350 to 1369. Peter was the last ruler of the main branch of the House of Ivrea. He was excommunicated by Pope Urban V for ...
.
Death
Muhammad V died on 16 January 1391. He had at least four sons;
Yusuf II, Nasr, Muhammad and Sa'd. He was succeeded by his son, Yusuf II.
References
Sources
*''The Alhambra From the Ninth Century to Yusuf I (1354)''. vol. 1. Saqi Books, 1997.
*''Pedro the Cruel of Castile 1350-1359'' (The Medieval Mediterranean : Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400-1453, Vol 6) by Clara Esto; Brill Academic Publishers, 1995
*''The Three Great Sultans of al-Dawla al-Ismā'īliyya al-Naṣriyya Who Built the Fourteenth-Century Alhambra: Ismā'īl I, Yūsuf I, Muḥammad V (713-793/1314-1391)'' Antonio Fernández-Puertas, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Third Series, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Apr. 1997), pp. 1–25
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1338 births
1391 deaths
14th century in Al-Andalus
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