Ibn Marwan

Statue of Ibn Marwan in the fortress of the city of Badajoz, which he founded

Ibn Marwan (عبدالرحمن بن مروان بن یونس 'Abd ar Rahman ibn Marwan ibn Yūnus , as ابن الجلیقی known Ibn al-Djillīqui , "Son of d. H. Galiciers ", Portuguese Bem Marvão , Spanish Ben / Ibn Maruan / Meruan ) († 889 , Badajoz ), was a Muslim (Moorish) ruler in western Andalusia and a rebel who rose up against the Umayyad emir Muhammad I of Cordoba several times .

His family came from Galicia or northern Portugal, had converted to Islam and settled in Mérida . Although the emir Muhammad I had appointed his father Marwân ibn Yūnus as governor of Mérida, Ibn Marwân led an uprising of the Muladis and Mozarabs against the Umayyad rulers as his father's successor . But he had to surrender and retire to Cordoba , where he held court until 875. At this point he rose up from the fortress in Alange Castle a second time against Muhammad I, was defeated again by him and received Badajoz from himassigned as place of residence. Together with the ruler of Porto , Saʿdūn as-Surunbāqī (Surunbaki), who converted to Islam , and King Alfonso III. of Asturias , Ibn Marwân allied against Muhammad I the following year, took his general and grand vizier Hashim ibn Abd al-Aziz prisoner in an ambush in the Serra da Estrela and handed him over to King Alfonso. Subsequently, Surunbāqīs and Ibn Marwan militias drove the Banū Dānis, who were loyal to Cordoba, from Coimbra in 876 . Fearing reprisals from the emir, Ibn Marwān lived for eight years in a Christian-ruled area.

After his return to Badajoz in 884, Ibn Marwan was able, with the consent of the emir, to establish rule over an area that stretched to Mérida in the east and Marvão in the west .

His son Abd ar-Rahman or his grandson Ibn Marwan ibn Abd ar-Rahman and his descendants (Marwanids) ruled until 928, when Caliph Abd ar-Rahman III. of Cordoba subjugated the territory again. After the caliphate broke up in the 11th century, the Aftasids again established an independent emirate in Badajoz.

literature

• André Clot: Al-Andalus - Moorish Spain . Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf and Zurich 2002, p. 85.
• Article Abd al-Rahmān b. Marwān. In: Encyclopédie de l'Islam . Volume I, p. 88.
• Francisco José Velozo: Um Muçulmano Precursor da Independência Portuguesa: Bem Marvão, o Galego . In: O Islão . No. 5, August 1969.
• José A. Correia de Campos: Monumentos da antiguidade arabe em Portugal . P. 111 f.

Web links

• El emirato de Muhammad I en el Bayan al-Mugrib de Ibn Idari (PDF), pages 227f