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A bronze bust of Abd al-Rahman III, the first Caliph of Córdoba, was unveiled in June 2016 in the small Spanish town of Cadrete near Zaragoza in Aragon. Three years later, it was removed by the right-wing new local government. The removal prompted debate on how Spain should interpret the legacy of Al-Andalus, the Muslim realms of the Middle Ages.
Abd al-Rahman was the son of Mu'awiya, son of Hisham, son of Abd al-Malik, according to Abd el-Wahid Merrakechi when reciting his ancestry. [34] Abd al-Rahman's mother was a member of the Nafza Berbers with whom he found refuge after the murder of his family in 750. [35] Abd al-Rahman married a Spanish Sephardi woman named Hulal.
Moulay Abd al-Rahman's son and successor, Sidi Muhammad IV (1868). When Moulay Abd al-Rahman bin Hicham ascended the throne on 30 November 1822, Morocco was an undefeated power with a modern army made up of four main armed forces: [33] The Guich military tribes or Makhzen tribes which provided the regular contingents.
Abd Al-Rahman took part in the Battle of Toulouse, where Al Samh ibn Malik was killed in 721 (102 AH) by the forces of Duke Odo of Aquitaine.After the severe defeat, he fled south along with other commanders and troops, and took over the command of Eastern Andalus.
Abd al-Rahman launched three different campaigns against Ibn Hafsun (who died in 917) and his sons. One of Ibn Hafsun's sons, Jaʿfar ibn Hafsun, held the stronghold of Toledo. Abd al-Rahman ravaged the countryside around the city. Ja'far, after two years of siege, escaped from the city to ask for help in the northern Christian kingdoms.
The Sultan of Morocco (1845) by Eugène Delacroix. The Sultan of Morocco is an 1845 oil on canvas painting by the French Romantic and Orientalist painter Eugène Delacroix, now in the Musée des Augustins de Toulouse. [1]
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥabīb al-Fihrī (Arabic: عبدالرحمن بن حبيب الفهري), called al-Ṣiqlabī (الصقلبي), was an Abbasid-appointed governor of al-Andalus (Spain) in the 770s. He was sent from Ifrīqiya to oppose the Umayyad ruler ʿAbd al-Raḥmān I.
Abd al-Rahman's mother had remarried a Kairouani pilgrim she had met in Mecca and the couple raised Abd al-Rahman at Kairouan. [1] Abd al-Rahman was a quick and energetic learner, and had studied under Abu Ubaida Muslim in Basra. Abd al-Rahman became one of the five missionaries who was ultimately responsible for the spread of the Ibadite ...