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Al-Suyuti relates that in 153 AH al-Mansur required his subjects to wear tall caps (qalansuwa). They made them of reed and paper and wore them black. ²

Al-Suyuti quotes verses by Abu Dulama on this matter, which contain a mocking comparison of the caps. The text is in the source and is not reproduced here. ²

دخول عبد الرحمن الداخل الأندلس

In year 138 Abd al-Rahman ibn Muawiya ibn Hisham the Umayyad entered al-Andalus and seized it; his days extended and al-Andalus remained in his descendants' hands past the year 400. A man of learning and justice whose mother was Berber, they said: 'The world is ruled by two sons of Berber women — al-Mansur and Abd al-Rahman ibn Muawiya.' By year 148 nothing lay outside al-Mansur's sway but al-Andalus, held by Abd al-Rahman, who did not take the title Commander of the Faithful but only amir — as did his sons.

إلزام المنصور بالقلانس الطوال

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دخول عبد الرحمن الداخل الأندلس