ABD AR-RAHMAN I, Emir of Córdoba

d. 788, first Umayyad emir of Córdoba (756–88). The only survivor of the Abbasid massacre (750) of his family in Damascus, he fled from Syria and eventually went to Spain. There he defeated (756) the emir of Córdoba at Alameda and seized power. Despite the jealousy of the Arab aristocracy and the turbulence of the Berbers, he reorganized and consolidated the state and tried to unite the various Muslim groups. The great mosque at Córdoba, which Abd ar-Rahman started, was continued by his son and successor, Hisham I.

See R. Collins, Early Medieval Spain: Unity in Diversity (2 vol., 1983–87); S. Lane-Poole, The Moors in Spain (1984); D. Taha Abdulwahid, Muslim Conquest and Settlement of North Africa and Spain (1988).

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Why I Am Not a Muslim
Book by Ibn Warraq; Prometheus Books, 1995
...soon after 14 February 1989, "many people, i.e., authors and journalists, were executed...Bagherzadeh.... They followed the bitter fate of their young colleagues who had been kidnapped...two poets called Said Soltanpour and Rahman Hatefi." When we compare the evasive and...
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Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought
Book by Michael Cook; Cambridge University Press, 2001
Subjects: Islam--Doctrines, Islamic Ethics, Religious Life--Islam, Religious Life--Sh?I?Ah
...scale is that of Dr Abd al-Aziz Ahmad...note that when I say that a passage...f. 432a.2 I owe all references...the kindness of Michael Bonner...ed. A. A. Abd al-Mawjud etal...51 ; and see Abd al-Razzaq ibn...major discussion of al-amr bil...Abu 1-Futuh-i RazI, Rawd...
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Political Thought in Medieval Islam: An Introductory Outline
Book by Erwin I. J. Rosenthal; Cambridge University Press, 1968
Subjects: Political Science--History, Sociology, Islamic
...purity of early Islam see I. Goldziher, Vorlesungen uber...the day-to-day administration of the Muslim state, which he tried...reformist theology of Muh ammad b. Abd al-Wahhab d. 1787 , whose...practice by his son-in-law, the emir Muh ammad Ibn Saud, who fought...
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The Regions of Spain: A Reference Guide to History and Culture
Book by Robert W. Kern, Chuck Smith; Greenwood Press, 1995
Subjects: Regionalism--Spain, Spain--Civilization, Spain--History, Local
...the time of Abd ar- Rahman I 756-88...Syrian noble, Cordoba was made...episcopate. Cordoba eventually...construction of the Mezquita...the Syrian Abd ar-Rahman I 785-821...city of Cordoba centers around...the reign of Abd ar-Rahman I. A tall...
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A History of Medieval Spain
Book by Joseph F. O'Callaghan; Cornell University Press, 1975
Subjects: Portugal--History--Period Of Discoveries, 1385-1580, Portugal--History--To 1385, Spain--History--711-1516, Spain--History--Gothic Period, 414-711
...PART I. THE VISIGOTHIC...ASCENDANCY OF ISLAM, 711-1031...Emirate of Cordoba 91...Caliphs of Cordoba, 756-1031...2. Kings of Asturias-Leon...Part I: The Visigothic...Calahorra, Cordoba...The Palace of Ramiro I on Monte Naranco...
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Abd Ar-Rahman I , Emir of Córdoba
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ABD AR-RAHMAN I , emir of Cordoba d. 788, first Umayyad...he defeated (756) the emir of Cordoba at Alameda and seized...mosque at Cordoba, which Abd ar-Rahman started, was continued...and successor, Hisham I. See R. Collins, Early...
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Spain
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...peninsula except for Asturias and the Basque Country. Cordoba became the capital of the emir, who governed in the name of the Baghdad caliph. In 756, however, Abd ar-Rahman I , scion of the Umayyad dynasty, established...
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Moorish Art and Architecture
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...is the Great Mosque at Cordoba (785 c.1000), begun by the Umayyad emir Abd ar-rahman i , who had escaped from...complex interior consisting of a multitude of low, rounded arches made of alternating black and...


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