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The Dhunnunids of Toledo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

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When the Umayyad Caliphate in Spain succumbed to internal faction and weakness, the country was split up into independent kingdoms, ruled by the men who for one reason or another were able to take control. In the confused history of these “Party Kings” the Abbadids of Seville played a spectacular role. Their history is known from the admirable writings of Dozy, as is also the history of other families of this period. But the Banū dhī'n-Nūn or Dhunnunids are comparatively unknown. The article by Seybold in the Encyclopædia of Islam is very short, and the references are confined to Maqqarī. There is enough, however, in various writers to give here some account of the family through a dozen generations on the scale which their importance merits. More precise information is likely to be contained in unedited manuscripts, notably the Dhakhīrah of Ibn Bassām, and also in printed books which were not to hand. It is hoped that what may be found elsewhere will add to the present sketch, rather than correct it.

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1942

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page 78 note 1 And may, as Lévi-Provençal thinks, be an Arabicized form of Banū Zannūn (?).

page 78 note 2 Ed. of Cairo 1303, iii, 50. But Ṭabarī's editors have Dhū'n-Nūr.

page 78 note 3 Perhaps a son of Isma'īl aẓ-Ẓāfir, reading for at Maqqarī, ii, 513, 1.1.

page 78 note 4 So Ibn al-Qūṭīyah, ed. Ribera, p. 32.

page 79 note 1 Not ‘Abdu'llāh (Gayangos).

page 79 note 2 vii, 89. Ibn Athīr confuses it with the raid of 260.

page 79 note 3 Or Ṭurbaishah. So Ibn Ḥaiyān ed. Antūna, p. 18. Ibn Athīr has which Fagnan renders Ṭuraishah in his translation, p. 244.

page 80 note 1 Los Reyes de Taifas, Madrid, 1926, p. 52Google Scholar.

page 81 note 1 So according to the 'Iqd ed. of 1331, iii, 222; but in 314 according to Bayān tr. Fagnan, ii, 316.

page 83 note 1 So Maqqarī, i, 258. Dozy gives another account. See Moslems in Spain, p. 498 = Histoire, iii, 193–4.

page 83 note 2 Ibn Khaldūn, ed. of 1284, iv, 161, has Correct to .

page 83 note 3 Lévi-Provençal, , Inscriptions Arabes d'Espagne, p. 66Google Scholar.

page 85 note 1 Recherches, i, 238, note.

page 85 note 2 Priedo, p. 53, quoting Ibn al-Khaṭīb's A'māl al-A'lām. Unfortunately Lévi-Provençal's, edition, Histoire de l'Espagne Mussulmane, Rabat, 1934Google Scholar, has not been available for this paper.

page 88 note 1 Muhammad b. 'Abbād, not (Nuwairī) Muḥammad b. Isma'īl.

page 89 note 1 So Nuwairī, ed. Remiro, i, p. 90. According to another account mentioned by Prieto, p. 75 (? Ibn al-Khaṭīb), the Toledans were put to flight by Mu'tamid's general Muḥammad b. Martīn.

page 89 note 2 So Maqqarī, i, 288, rightly. Correct text of Ibn Khaldūn, loc. cit., to . This text of Ibn Khaldūn is full of errors.

page 91 note 1 This seems at least as likely as the other possibilities: (a) that an otherwise unknown Hishām b. Yaḥhyā succeeded his father (Crónica General); or (b) that al-Qādir succeeded his grandfather (Ibn Khaldun). We here assume that Hishām is wrongly given for Isma'īl in the Crónica General (cited by Prieto, p. 54). Nuwairī makes al-Qādir son of Yaḥyā. Ibn Athīr and 'Abdu'l-Wāḥid confuse al-Qādir with his grandfather. Also Ibn Khaldūn, loc. cit., in error says aẓ-Ẓāfir died in 467 and his grandson succeeded.

page 91 note 2 See Lévi-Provençal, , Inscriptions, p. 190Google Scholar. Note that in this inscription the father of Isma'īl aẓ-Ẓāfir is said to be Muḥammad, not ‘Abdu’ r-Raḥmān.

page 92 note 1 Prieto, p. 54, from Ibn al-Khaṭīb.

page 94 note 1 Quoted by Maqqarī, ii, 748.

page 95 note 1 Correct the text of Nuwairī, ed. Remiro, i, 88, to

page 95 note 2 Prieto, p. 60 (? Ibn al-Khaṭīb).

page 96 note 1 Kitābu '1-Iktifā, trans. Gayangos.