Fihrid Fancies: Notes on a Failed Dynasty

In the year 756 ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Muʿawiya entered the city of Córdoba and declared himself to be the new emir. It would take him thirty years of fighting to make it reality, but historians tend to mark this moment as the beginning of Umayyad rule in al-Andalus. This was in opposition to the ʿAbbasids … Continue reading Fihrid Fancies: Notes on a Failed Dynasty