Sabur al-Saqlabi

Sabur al-Saqlabi
Funerary gravestone of Sabur. Archaeological Museum of Badajoz.[1]
Died1022
NationalityAl-Andalusi
OccupationFirst taifa king of Badajoz

Sabur al-Saqlabi (died 1022) was a non-Arab freedman who became the first taifa king of Badajoz.

Originally a palatial slave,[2] he was freed by Al-Hakam II.[3] The al-Saqlabi from his name means "the Slavic".[4] He is theorized to perhaps have a Persian background, due to Sabur being the arabization of the Persian name Sapor.[4] He was sent by Hisham II's hadjib Al Mansur to rule as wali of the western province of al-Andalus (Al-Gharb).[5] He proclaimed himself independent amid the fitna of al-Andalus (1009–1031). Sabur, traditionally loyal to the Umayyads, may have self-proclaimed once the Umayyad caliph was routed by the Hammudids (1016).[6][7] Other sources point to 1009[8] or 1013.[9] Following his death in 1022,[7] his Aftasid visir, Abd Allah, seized power in the taifa.[2]

References

  1. ^ Franco Moreno, Bruno (2017). "Batalyaws, de qarya a madina. Una ciudad para el Occidente de al-Andalus" (PDF). Revista de Estudios Extremeños. LXXIII (1): 82.
  2. ^ a b Viguera Molins 2014, p. 32.
  3. ^ Domené Sánchez, Domingo (2009). "Fueros y privilegios del Badajoz medieval" (PDF). Revista de Estudios Extremeños. LXV (1): 102. ISSN 0210-2854.
  4. ^ a b Fletcher, Richard (2000) [1992]. La España mora. p. 101. ISBN 9788489569409.
  5. ^ Negro Cortés, Adrián Elías (2020). "Las parias pagadas a Castilla por la taifa aftasí de Badajoz" (PDF). Revista de Estudios Extremeños. 76 (1): 44–45. ISSN 0210-2854.
  6. ^ Lourinho, Inês (2020). Fronteira do Gharb al-Andalus: Terreno de Confronto entre Almorávidas e Cristãos (1093-1147) (PDF). Lisbon: Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa. p. 62. ISBN 978-989-8068-27-9.
  7. ^ a b Negro Cortés 2020, pp. 44–45.
  8. ^ García Fitz, Francisco (2003). "La presencia islámica en el occidente de al-Andalus: el sur de Badajoz en la época emiral (ss. VIII-X)" (PDF). III Jornada de Historia de Fuente Cantos. p. 28.
  9. ^ Viguera Molins, María Jesús (2014). "Los reinos de taifas y el reino aftasí". Bataliús III. Estudios sobre el reino aftasí (PDF). Badajoz. ISBN 978-84-9852-429-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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