Abén Humeya

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Abén Humeya
illustration from 1859

Abén Humeya ( Arabic محمد بن أمية Muhammad ibn Umayya , DMG Muḥammad b. Umaiya ) (* 1520 in Válor ; † October 20, 1569 in Láujar de Andarax ) was the last Moorish king in the Andalusian Alpujarras at the time of the Morisk uprising of 1568 .

biography

Abén Humeya came from a respected Moorish family that traced back to the Umayyad dynasty of Cordoba and was forcibly converted to Christianity during the Reconquista . Therefore he had the Christian birth name Fernando de Córdoba y Válor . He was a member of the Granada City Council .

The oppression of the Moriscos led to the last Morisk uprising in the Alpujarra area in 1568. At Christmas 1568 the crypto Muslims of the former emirate of Granada rose up and murdered the Christian inhabitants of the villages in the Alpujarras. Abén Humeya made himself their leader and was proclaimed king. In February 1569 he was crowned in an olive grove in Cadiar . Abén Humeya brought Turks , corsairs and barbarians into the country for support. However, he mistrusted them and assigned them to his cousin Abén Aboo. He also made enemies because he took other wives in addition to the four women he had married after his elevation to king.

In October of the same year he fell victim to a conspiracy in Láujar de Andarax, east of Ugijar . His opponent Johann von Österreich had his body later transferred to Guadix . Abén Aboo succeeded him as the leader of the Moriscos.

reception

The Spanish playwright Francisco Martínez de la Rosa (1787–1862) wrote the historical drama Aben Humeya ó La rebelion de los moriscos, which was first performed in France in 1830 and had its first performance in Spain in 1836.

In Purchena ( province of Almería ) the Juegos Moriscos de Abén Humeya have been held annually in August since 1993 as a tourist event, in which the morisk fights are re-enacted as sporting competitions.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aben-Humeya on Wikisource (Spanish)
  2. ↑ DF Martinez de la Roza: Aben Humeya ó La rebelion de los moriscos: drama historico. Jules Didot, Paris 1830 ( Biblioteca Digital Hispánica of the Spanish National Library ).
  3. ^ José Acosta Montoro: De Olimpia a Purchena (Prólogo de Juan Antonio Samaranch a la 1.ª Edición). Ayuntamiento de Purchena, Almería 1997, ISBN 84-8176-285-7 .
  4. ↑ Bertomeu LLorens Peset: Fiesta de Purchena: Los Juegos Moriscos de la obra del Abén Humeya en compositor estadounidense Albert Hay Malotte. Ayuntamiento de Purchena, Almería 2013. DL AL-714-2013.
  5. ↑ Juegos Moriscos Aben Humeya , Purchena, accessed June 14, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Abén Humeya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Córdoba y Válor, Fernando de; Ibn Umayya; محمد بن أمية (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of morris
DATE OF BIRTH 1520
PLACE OF BIRTH Válor
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1569
Place of death Láujar de Andarax