al-Qasim al-Ma'mun

Al-Qasim al-Ma'mun ( Arabic المأمون القاسم بن حمود, DMG al-Maʾmūn al-Qāsim bin Ḥammūd ; † 1035 ) was Caliph of Córdoba from 1018 to 1021 and 1023 .

Al-Qasim succeeded his brother Ali ibn Hammud al-Nasir and continued the rule of the Hammudids in the Caliphate of Cordoba . First he was able to achieve a compromise with the Berber leaders and consolidate his rule after the Umayyad Abd ar-Rahman IV had been eliminated in 1018 . However, Yahya al-Mutali , the son of his murdered brother Ali ibn Hammud, increasingly conspired against his rule. When his troops defected to Yahya, al-Qasim had to flee to Seville in August 1021 .

But he was able to return to Cordoba as early as 1023 with the help of loyal slave troops . But soon there was a successful uprising of the population of Cordoba against the Berber troops, who were badly beaten. The new caliph was Abd ar-Rahman V , with which the Umayyads were able to oust the Hammudids from the throne of the caliphate. Although al-Qasim managed to escape, he was captured by Yahya al-Mutali, who imprisoned him and had him executed after 13 years.

literature

• Arnold Hottinger : The Moors. Arabic culture in Spain. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7705-3075-6

predecessor	Office	successor
Abd ar-Rahman IV.	Caliph of Cordoba 1018-1021	Yahya al-Mutali
Yahya al-Mutali	Caliph of Cordoba 1023	Yahya al-Mutali