هشام المؤيد بالله
The Umayyad caliph of al-Andalus acclaimed at nine years old; the hajib Ibn Abi Amir murdered his uncle al-Mughira, isolated him from his wazirs, and reduced his caliphate to the pulpit prayer and the mint legend.
Reign · Caliphate of Córdoba · no. 1 in the chain · 0976–1009 CE
Ruled the caliphate
Events of the reign
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Al-Mansur's eastern expansion
The hajib al-Mansur ibn Abi Amir added the great eastern enlargement to the mosque about 987, completing the plan the mosque has kept.
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Battle of Albesa
Draft card for the Battle of Albesa in 1003, Abd al-Malik al-Muzaffar's victory over the Catalan-Castilian alliance; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Battle of Alcala de Henares
Draft card for Battle of Alcala de Henares; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Battle of Aqbat al-Bakr
Draft card for the Battle of Aqbat al-Bakr in 1010, the Andalusian civil-war battle near Córdoba; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Battle of Cervera
Draft card for the Battle of Cervera in 1000, Almanzor's campaign into Catalonia and Castile; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Battle of Rovirans
Draft card for the raid on Rovirans in 985, al-Mansur's campaign against Barcelona's countryside; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Battle of Rueda
Draft card for the Battle of Rueda in 981, al-Mansur ibn Abi Amir's victory over the Leonese; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Battle of the Guadiaro River (1010)
Draft card for the Battle of the Guadiaro River in 1010, an action of the Fitna of al-Andalus; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Battle of Torà
Draft card for the Battle of Torà in 1006, the Catalans' victory over Abd al-Malik al-Muzaffar's campaign in al-Andalus; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Battle of Torrevicente
Draft card for the Battle of Torrevicente in 981, al-Mansur's victory over García Fernández in the San Esteban campaign; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Ibn 'Abd al-Barr begins the hadith quest at Cordoba, about 385/995
Ibn 'Abd al-Barr took up the hadith quest in 'three hundred and eighty-something', years before the hafiz al-Khatib al-Baghdadi was born; he transmitted from Khalf ibn al-Qasim, 'Abd al-Warith ibn Sufyan, Abu al-Walid ibn al-Faradi and Abu 'Amr al-Talamanki — fewer than seventy shaykhs in all — heard the Sunan of Abu Dawud on a high isnad from Ibn 'Abd al-Mu'min and read al-Za'farani's book under Ibn Dayfun.
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Ibn 'Abd al-Barr is born at Cordoba, Friday 25 Rabi' II 368/29 November 978
Abu 'Amr Yusuf ibn 'Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Barr al-Namari al-Qurtubi was born on a Friday while the imam was preaching, five days before the end of Rabi' II 368 — 29 November 978 in his father's hand, as Tahir ibn Mufawwiz recorded it; he said himself he was born the same year as Abu 'Imran al-Ghafjumi, while al-Judhwa and al-Bughya give Rajab 362.
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Ibn 'Abd al-Barr's father Abu Muhammad 'Abd Allah dies, Rabi' II 380/990
Abu 'Amr Ibn 'Abd al-Barr recorded that his father Abu Muhammad 'Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Barr died in Rabi' II 380, having been born in 330; Ibn 'Abd al-Barr was then a boy of twelve.
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Ibn 'Abd al-Barr quits Cordoba after the Berber storming, about 403/1013
Abu 'Amr Ibn 'Abd al-Barr left his birthplace Cordoba after the Berbers stormed it in 403; he stayed in the west of al-Andalus for a while, then moved to its east and lived at Dania, Balansiya and Shatiba, where he died.
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Ibn Hazm is born in the Munyat al-Mughira quarter of Cordoba
Abu Muhammad Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Hazm was born in the Munyat al-Mughira quarter of Cordoba on the last day of Ramadan, 384 AH.
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al-Mansur's Raid on Shant Ya'qub (Santiago de Compostela)
Al-Mansur's forty-eighth raid and his deepest: from Cordoba, 6 Jumada II 387, to Santiago de Compostela — the Christians' Kaaba — reached empty on Wednesday 2 Sha'ban; its church, walls and factories demolished, the apostle's tomb guarded and the lone monk 'Ones of James' spared, then the army pushed to Santi Mankish island, 'a limit no Muslim had reached before them', and he wrote his victory dispatch from Baliquiya.
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Sack of Barcelona
Draft card for the Sack of Barcelona in 985, al-Mansur's capture of the city in his greatest summer campaign; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Sack of Cordoba (1010)
Draft card for Sack of Cordoba (1010); its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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The Berbers enter Cordoba by storm
In 403 Sulayman al-Musta'in and the Berbers stormed Cordoba after a siege that starved its villages; Hisham al-Mu'ayyad was secretly killed, the city's households violated, and the Berbers and Saqaliba scattered to found taifa states.
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The Cordoba Strife and the Rising of Ibn Abd al-Jabbar
The Cordoba fitna of 399–400: the Umayyad Muhammad ibn Hisham rose as 'al-Mahdi', hid the caliph Hisham al-Mu'ayyad and buried a Christian lookalike in his name; his uncle Hisham's counter-revolt failed, then Sulayman al-Musta'in marched in with Christian allies, won the great battle (35,000 dead), and took the bay'a while Berbers and Christians sacked the city.