هشام المؤيد بالله

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 1.

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Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
al-Andalus & Europe
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Hisham al-Mu'ayyad bi-Allah, Umayyad caliph in al-Andalus, who took up the rule after his father al-Hakam when he was nine years old. 2

His accession and his guardianship

Al-Maqqari reports that he was given the title al-Mu'ayyad after al-Mughira, his uncle and the designated heir, was killed. The matter was taken up by the chamberlain Muhammad ibn Abi Amir, in agreement with Ja'far ibn Uthman al-Mushafi and Ghalib, a client of al-Hakam. 2

Then Ibn Abi Amir put him under guardianship and seized the state. Nothing of the forms of the caliphate remained to him except the prayer for him from the pulpits and his name on the coinage and the embroidered bands. 2

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فتنة قرطبة وخروج ابن عبد الجبار

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عبد الرحمن شنجول بن المنصور· محمد بن هشام المهدي· سليمان المستعين بالله الأموي· Cordoba· فتنة قرطبة وخروج ابن عبد الجبار

Sources

  1. Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari, p. 432-434
  2. Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari, p.432-434
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islam.museum contributors. “هشام المؤيد بالله”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/hisham-ii-al-muayyad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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عبد الرحمن شنجول بن المنصور

Al-Mansur's son 'Sanjul' — little Sancho, for his Christian grandfather — who forced the captive caliph Hisham to name him heir in a formal deed of Rabi I 398, the provocation that sparked the Berber fitna and ended with the armies surrendering him to death.