Aftasid dynasty
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)| Aftasid dynasty بنو الأفطس | |
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| Arabized Iberian-Berber dynasty | |
| Country | Taifa of Badajoz |
| Founded | 1022 |
| Titles | Sultan |
| Dissolution | 1094 |
The Aftasid dynasty (Arabic: بنو الأفطس Banu al-Aftas) was an Arabized Iberian-Berber[1] dynasty that ruled the Taifa of Badajoz in Al-Andalus.[2]
History
When the
Al Garb Al Andalus, from the Douro river to the south of Tagus river, establishing the Taifa of Badajoz
. Ibn al-Aftas died in 1045.
Under Ibn al-Aftas' successors,
Islamic culture, which was fostered by the Aftasid rulers. In 1055, Badajoz came under the suzerainty of the Kingdom of León-Castile and was forced to pay tribute. The taifa lost control over significant parts of its territory, south of the Mondego river (south of Coimbra). The Abbadid dynasty of Seville conquered parts of their territory. In 1094, the kingdom was annexed by the Almoravid dynasty
. Badajoz was taken at the end of 1095 by the Almoravid general Abu Bakr, with the connivance of the inhabitants who were fed up of the fiscal exactions of their emir, Umar ibn Muhammad al-Mutawakkil.
Al-Mutawakkil and two of his sons Al-Fadl and S'ad, were taken prisoner and sent to
Alfonso VI, where he abandoned Islam for Christianity
.
Aftasid rulers
- Abdallah ibn Al-Aftas (1022-1045)
- Muhammad b. 'Abdallah, Abu Bakr al-Muzaffar (1045-1068)
- Yahya b. Muhammad (1068)
- 'Umar b. Muhammad, Abu Hafs al-Mutawakkil (1068-1094), killed 1094 or 1095[4]
See also
Notes
- ISBN 978-1-4422-8182-0.
- ^ The Iberian Peninsula and Sicily, Ambroxio Huici Miranda, The Cambridge History of Islam, Vol. 2A, ed. P. M. Holt, Peter Malcolm Holt, Ann K. S. Lambton, Bernard Lewis, (Cambridge University Press, 1970), 421.
- ^ James T. Monroe, Hispano-Arabic Poetry: A Student Anthology, (Gorgias Press, 2004), 37.
- ^ C.E. Bosworth, The New Islamic Dynasties, (Columbia University Press, 1996), 18.
References
- Taher, Mohamed (1998). Encyclopaedic Survey of Islamic Culture. ISBN 978-81-7488-487-9.[page needed]
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