Abu Nu'aym Ridwan
Abu Nu'aym Ridwan (or Abu al-Nu'aym Ridwan) was a minister and military commander in the Emirate of Granada. Born a Christian with Castilian and Catalan origin, he was captured as a child in Calatrava and brought as a slave to the palace. He converted to Islam and rose through the ranks during the reign of Ismail I (r. 1314–1325), eventually appointed as a tutor to the sultan's son Muhammad.[1] When the latter became Sultan Muhammad IV at the age of ten, Ridwan remained in charge of him and acted as a sort of regent together with the Sultan's grandmother Fatima bint al-Ahmar.[2][3] Muhammad appointed him as the hajib in 1329, making him the highest-ranking minister at court. He remained in this position during the reign of Muhammad's successor Yusuf I and the first reign (1354–1359) of Muhammad V, except for a brief pause during Yusuf's rule.[4][5] He was killed during a coup that deposed Muhammad V in 1359.[6]
Citations
- ^ Arié 1973, p. 264.
- ^ Rubiera Mata 1996, p. 188.
- ^ Catlos 2018, p. 437.
- ^ Arié 1973, p. 200.
- ^ Fernández-Puertas 1997, p. 9.
- ^ Vidal Castro: Ismail II.
References
- OCLC 3207329.
- Catlos, Brian A. (July 2018). Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain. London: ISBN 978-1787380035.
- Fernández-Puertas, Antonio (1997). "The Three Great Sultans of al-Dawla al-Ismā'īliyya al-Naṣriyya Who Built the Fourteenth-Century Alhambra: Ismā'īl I, Yūsuf I, Muḥammad V (713–793/1314–1391)". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. Third Series. 7 (1). London: 1–25. JSTOR 25183293.
- Rubiera Mata, María Jesús (1996). "La princesa Fátima Bint Al-Ahmar, la "María de Molina" de la dinastía Nazarí de Granada". Medievalismo (in Spanish). 6. Murcia and Madrid: Universidad de Murcia and Sociedad Española de Estudios Medievales: 183–189. (PDF) from the original on 2019-07-13.
- Vidal Castro, Francisco. "Ismail II". Diccionario Biográfico electrónico (in Spanish). Real Academia de la Historia.
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