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Abd al-Rahman III's mother Muzna was a Christian captive, possibly from the Pyrenean region. His paternal grandmother Onneca Fortúnez was a Christian princess from the Kingdom of Pamplona . In his immediate ancestry, Abd al-Rahman III was Arab and Hispano– Basque .
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.
Coins minted at Madinat al-Zahra in 347 AH (958 or 959 CE), in the name of Abd ar-Rahman III. According to historical sources the new palace-city was founded in 936. It was located about 5 km west of Córdoba. Abd ar-Rahman III's son, Al-Hakam II, the crown prince and his future successor, was entrusted to oversee the construction. The 16th ...
(ISBN 84-8306-437-5) Abderramán III y el Califato de Córdoba Editorial Debate, 2001. (ISBN 84-8448-043-7) Judíos y conversos en la Castilla medieval Universidad de Valladolid. Secretariado de Publicaciones e Intercambio Editorial, 2000. (ISBN 84-8165-643-7) El Camino de Santiago en coche (Et al.) Anaya-Touring Club, 1999.
Abd al-Rahman's 7th descendant, Abd al-Rahman III, would, however, take up the title of caliph. In the meantime, a call went out through the Muslim world that al-Andalus was a safe haven for friends of the house of Umayya , if not for Abd al-Rahman's scattered family that managed to evade the Abbasids.
The Cross of Peñalba is a votive cross given in the 10th century by the Leonese king Ramiro II of León to San Genadio in gratitude for the help received from the Apostle Santiago in the battle of Simancas (year 939) against Abderramán III. It is currently one of the main identity symbols of El Bierzo and is exhibited in the León Museum.
The martyrdom of the Christian child Pelagius of Córdoba for resisting the wishes of Abderraman III, first Umayyad caliph of Córdoba, for which he was later sanctified, is well known. [3] Also among the Jewish community of al-Andalus homosexuality was even normal among the aristocracy.
Some of them even held high offices in the Islamic administration under some rulers— a prominent example being that of Recemundus, a palace official, who, sometime between 961 and 976, wrote the famous Calendar of Córdoba [5] for Abd ar-Rahman III, undertook various diplomatic missions in Germania and Byzantium, and was rewarded with the ...