Valencia
بلنسية
Valencia, the great city of eastern al-Andalus; held for the Almoravids by the qadi Ibn Jahhaf, taken by Rodrigo el Campeador in 488 after a twenty-month siege — the poet Ibn al-Banna among its burn victims — retaken by the Almoravid amir Mazdali in 495 1.
At a glance
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe
- Review
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Overview
Valencia is a city in eastern al-Andalus on the sea. Al-Maqqari mentions that its affair passed to the jurist and judge Abu Ahmad ibn Juhhaf. Then Ruderic al-Qanbiyatur seized it in the year 488 AH, or it is said the year before, after a siege of twenty months, and he burned it. 2
After the siege
Among those burned in it was the man of letters Abu Ja'far ibn al-Buni. Then the commander Abu Muhammad Mazdali conquered it in the year 495 AH, as an envoy of Yusuf ibn Tashfin. After that the Banu Ghaniya and Ibn Mardanish governed it. 2
In his mention of it, al-Maqqari gives a verse by Ibn Khafaja as a witness, in lament for the city. 3
Connections
- Site of
- استيلاء القنبيطور على بلنسية
People and things also explored
Sources
- Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari, p. 455-456
- Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari, p.455
- Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari, p.456
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islam.museum contributors. “Valencia”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/valencia/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.