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Abd al-Rahman I
Emir of Córdoba from 756 to 788
Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu'awiya ibn Hisham (Arabic: عبد الرحمن إبن معاوية إبن هشام, romanized: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muʿāwiya ibn Hishām; 7 March 731 – 30 September 788), commonly known as Abd al-Rahman I, was the founder and first emir of the Emirate of Córdoba, ruling from 756 to 788. He established the Umayyad dynasty in al-Andalus, which continued for nearly three centuries (including the succeeding Caliphate of Córdoba).
Abd al-Rahman was a member of the Umayyad dynasty in Damascus, and his establishment of a government in Iberia represented a break with the Abbasids, who had overthrown the Umayyads in Damascus in 750. He was also known by the surnames al-Dakhil ("the Immigrant"),Saqr Quraysh ("the Falcon of Quraysh").[3]
Biography
[edit]Early life and flight from Damascus
[edit]Abd al-Rahman was born in Palmyra, near Damascus in the heartland of the Umayyad Caliphate, the son of the Umayyad prince Mu'awiya ibn Hisham and his concubine Rah, a Berber woman from the Nafza tribe,[4] and thus the grandson of Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, caliph from 724 to 743.[5][6] According to ibn Idari he was ""tall, blonde, one-eyed, beardless, with a mole in the face, he carried two
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(The Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, UK)
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