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شلب

شلب

الأندلس

Silves (Shalb) — capital of the Kura of Ossonoba in western al-Andalus, 'a fine seat with towns and strongholds' beside Lisbon's district 1.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
al-Andalus & Europe
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Silves is one of the cities of western al-Andalus. Its districts are called the Kura of Akshunuba, joined to the Kura of Ashbuna. According to al-Maqqari it is a great capital, with cities, strongholds and the house of its ruler. 2

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دخول عبد الرحمن الداخل الأندلس· فتح الأندلس· يعقوب المنصور الموحدي· الحامة· المرية· المنكب· بسطة· وادي آش

Sources

  1. Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari, p. 200
  2. Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari, p.200
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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.