بنو حمود

Descendants of Idris al-Alawi, who held the caliphate in al-Andalus during the Umayyad period after the civil strife. ¹

Al-Maqqari reports that they conducted themselves as the Abbasid caliphs did: when a poet or a petitioner attended them, the caliph spoke from behind a curtain, and the chamberlain answered at the screen. ¹

Ibn Maqana al-Ashbuni attended before the chamberlain of Idris ibn Yahya al-Hammudi in Malaga and recited his ode rhyming in nun. When he reached the description of the caliph's face, the caliph lifted the curtain himself and said: "Look as you wish." He then rewarded him. ¹