The Taifa of Majorca was a medieval

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taifa The ''taifas'' (singular ''taifa'', from ar, طائفة ''ṭā'ifa'', plural طوائف ''ṭawā'if'', a party, band or faction) were the independent Muslim principalities and kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula (modern Portugal and Spain), re ...

kingdom which existed from 1018 to 1203 in

Majorca Mallorca, or Majorca, is the largest island in the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain and located in the Mediterranean. The capital of the island, Palma, is also the capital of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. The Bal ...

. It was founded by the Slavic warlord

Mujāhid al-ʿĀmirī Abu ʾl-Jaysh Mujāhid ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿĀmirī, surnamed ''al-Muwaffaḳ'' (died AD 1044/5 AH_436.html"_;"title="Anno_Hegirae.html"_;"title="small>Anno_Hegirae">AH_436">Anno_Hegirae.html"_;"title="small>Anno_Hegirae">AH_436,_was_the_Ta ...

. The first taifa lasted for about 50 years (1076-1116), first succumbing to a Christian crusade and later being occupied by the

Almoravids The Almoravid dynasty ( ar, المرابطون, translit=Al-Murābiṭūn, lit=those from the ribats) was an imperial Berber Muslim dynasty centered in the territory of present-day Morocco. It established an empire in the 11th century that ...

. After a period in which the

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were integrated into the Almoravid Empire, it ended up disintegrating, suffering the same fate as the

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. It was ruled by the Aghlabid dynasty, an

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i dynasty of the

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tribe. A new, independent kingdom arose, the second taifa (1147-1203), under the

Banu Ghaniya The Banu Ghaniya were an Almoravid Sanhaja Berber dynasty. Their first leader, Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Yusuf, a son of Ali ibn Yusuf al-Massufi and the Almoravid Princess Ghaniya, was appointed as governor of the Balearic Islands in 1126. Following th ...

dynasty, which would become the last Almoravid stronghold in

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against the

Almohads The Almohad Caliphate (; ar, خِلَافَةُ ٱلْمُوَحِّدِينَ or or from ar, ٱلْمُوَحِّدُونَ, translit=al-Muwaḥḥidūn, lit=those who profess the unity of God) was a North African Berber Muslim empire fo ...

' advance.

List of Emirs

Mujahid dynasty

: 1018–1041 *

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: 1041–1075

Aglabid dynasty

* Ibn Aglab al-Murtada: 1076–1093 * Mubassir: 1093–1114 * Abu-l-Rabi Sulayman "El Burabe": 1114–1126

Ghaniyid dynasty

* Muhammad I: 1126–1155 * Ishaq: –1184 * Muhammad II (deposed in a coup): 1184 d. 1187 *

Ali ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam. ...

(left to conquer the Maghreb): 1184 * Abu al-Zubayr or Talha: November 1184–1185 * Muhammad II (restored): 1185–1185 * Tashfin: 1185–1187 * 'Abdallah: 1187–1203 ** To

: 1203–1229

List of Emirs

Mujahid dynasty

Aglabid dynasty

Ghaniyid dynasty

See also