Al-Qasim al-Ma'mun

al-Qasim al-Ma'mun
القاسم المأمون
7th Caliph of Córdoba
(first period)
Reign28 March 1018 – August 1021
PredecessorAli ibn Hammud al-Nasir
SuccessorYahya ibn Ali
(second period)
Reign6 February 1023 – August 1023
PredecessorYahya ibn Ali
SuccessorAbd al-Rahman V
BrotherAli ibn Hammud al-Nasir
Names
al-Qasim al-Ma'mun ibn Hammud
(Arabic: القاسم المأمون بن حمود)
DynastyHammudid
ReligionZaīdī Shī'a Islam

Al-Qasim al-Ma'mun ibn Hammud (Arabic: القاسم المأمون بن حمّود, died 1036) was the Caliph of Córdoba in Muslim Spain for two periods, 1018 to 1021, and again for a short time in 1023 until he was driven from the city.[1]

Brother of the Caliph Ali ibn Hammud al-Nasir, al-Qasim claimed the throne on 28 March 1018 shortly after his brother's assassination.[2] His reign is described in Ibn al-Khatib's A'mal al-a'lam.[3]

At the outset of al-Qasim's reign, Umayyad loyalists who had been plotting to overthrow his brother convinced the a grandson of Abd al-Rahman III, Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik, to claim the throne. On 29 April 1018, the conspirators proclaimed Abd al-Rahman IV caliph. Shortly thereafter he was killed in a campaign to capture Córdoba.[2]

His nephew, Yahya ibn Ali, refused to recognize his reign. With Berber supporters, he marched on Cordoba in August 1021 to seize the throne. al-Qasim abandoned the city and fled to Seville.[4] Yahya entered Cordoba and was proclaimed caliph on 13 August 1021. His reign lasted only a year and a half before the citizens of Cordoba forced him to flee.[4] Al-Qasim then returned and retook the throne on 6 February 1023. The citizens of Cordoba, however, have had enough of Hammudid rule and six months later riots forced al-Qasim to flee the city again, this time seeking refuge in Jerez. He was found and imprisoned by Yahya, who later had him assassinated.[4]

Citations

  1. ↑ Dozy 1861, pp. 332–333.
  2. 1 2 Flood 2018, pp. 66–67.
  3. ↑ Guichard 2000, p. 229.
  4. 1 2 3 Flood 2018, p. 67.

References

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1861). Histoire des musulmans d'Espagne: jusqu'à la conquête de l'Andalousie par les Almoravides (711 - 1110) (in French). Brill. pp. 332–333.
  • Flood, Timothy M. (2018-11-09). Rulers and Realms in Medieval Iberia, 711-1492. McFarland. pp. 66–67. ISBN 978-1-4766-3372-5.

Guichard, Pierre (2000). L'Espagne et la Sicile musulmanes aux XIe et XIIe siècles (in French). Presses Universitaires Lyon. p. 229. ISBN 978-2-7297-0658-6.

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