Īsā Ibn Saʿīd al-Yaḥṣubī (; died 397 AH (1006 AD)), better known as Ibn al-Qaṭṭāʿ (), was a 10th-century Andalusi

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'' (; ) and '' wazir'' (; ) of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba.

Biography

Ibn al-Qatta' was born in the region of

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(located in the present-day province of Cordoba) to a family of humble status. They descended from the al-Najjar clan, a branch of an Arab tribe known as Banu al-Jaziri which settled in the Iberian peninsula following the Umayyad conquest. He was the son of a schoolmaster in his native town of Priego. Ibn al-Qatta' was first appointed to the position of vizier during the reign of the Umayyad caliph

Hisham II Hisham II or Abu'l-Walid Hisham II al-Mu'ayyad bi-llah (, Abū'l-Walīd Hishām al-Muʾayyad bi-ʾllāh; 966 – 1044) (son of Al-Hakam II and Subh of Córdoba) was the third Umayyad Caliph of Spain, in Al-Andalus from 976 to 1009, and from 1 ...

() and the de facto ruler of this period, Hisham's chamberlain,

Almanzor Abu ʿĀmir Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn Abi ʿĀmir al-Maʿafiri (), nicknamed al-Manṣūr (, "the Victorious"), which is often Latinized as Almanzor in Spanish, Almansor in Catalan language, Catalan and Almançor in Portuguese ( 938 – 8 A ...

(d. 1002). Subsequently, Ibn al-Qatta' would continue in his position as a vizier under the rule of Almanzor's successor and son, al-Muzaffar (d. 1008).

References

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