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Al-Muʿayṭī
Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn al-Walīd al-Muʿayṭī, also spelled al-Muʿiṭī (died AD 1041 AH_432.html"_;"title="Hijri_year.html"_;"title="small>Hijri_year">AH_432">Hijri_year.html"_;"title="small>Hijri_year">AH_432,_was_an_Umayyad_dynasty.html" "title="Hijri_year">AH_432.html" ;"title="Hijri_year.html" ;"title="small>Hijri year">AH 432">Hijri_year.html" ;"title="small>Hijri year">AH 432, was an Umayyad dynasty">Umayyad caliph reigning in Dénia from 1014 until 1016 in opposition to Sulayman ibn al-Hakam, Sulayman ibn al-Musta'in, reigning from Caliphate of Córdoba, Córdoba. He was a member of the Marwanid lineage and the only Andalusian Umayyad caliph not descended from Abd al-Rahman III. He was a puppet of his (chamberlain) Mujahid al-Amiri, who was the actual ruler of the kingdom of Dénia. His authority did not extended beyond Dénia and the Balearic Islands. Al-Mu'ayti's name consists of the , Abu Abd al-Rahman (meaning "father of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mujahid Al-Amiri
Abu ʾl-Jaysh Mujāhid ibn ʿAbd Allāh Amirids, al-ʿĀmirī, surnamed ''al-Muwaffaḳ'' (died AD 1044/5 [Anno Hegirae, AH 436]), was the Taifa of Dénia, ruler of Dénia and the Balearic Islands from late 1014 (early AH 405) until his death. With the exception of his early and disastrous Pisan–Genoese expeditions to Sardinia, invasion of Sardinia, his reign was mostly peaceful. His court became a centre of scholarship and literary production and he himself wrote a book about poetry (now lost).D. J. Wasserstein, "Mudjāhid, al-Muwaffaḳ ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿĀmiri, Abu ʾl-Djaysh", ''The Encyclopaedia of Islam'', Vol. VII (Leiden: Brill, 1993), pp. 292–93. Origins and rise Mujāhid was a ''Saqaliba, ṣaḳlabī'', a slave of Slavs, Slavic origin. His patronymic, Ibn ʿAbd Allāh, does not refer to his actual father. His mother was a captured Christian.Travis Bruce"The Politics of Violence and Trade: Denia and Pisa in the Eleventh Century" ''Journal of Medieval History'', 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |