Amirids Explained

The ʿĀmirids (or Banū ʿĀmir) were the descendants and Ṣaqlabī (Slavic) clients of the house of the ḥājib ʿĀmir Muḥammad al-Manṣūr, the de facto ruler of the Umayyad caliphate of Córdoba from 976 until 1002. A series of ʿĀmirid dictators were the powers behind the caliphal throne during the long reign of Hishām II. Four ʿĀmirid dynasties were established during the period of taifas (petty kingdoms) that followed the collapse of the caliphate: Valencia, Dénia, Almería and Tortosa.

Ḥājibs

The following list is derived from .

• Muḥammad ibn Abi ʿĀmir al-Manṣūr

981–1002

• ʿAbd al-Malik al-Muẓaffar, son of prec.: 1002–1008
• ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Sanchuelo, brother of prec.: 1008–1009

Ṣaqlabī dynasties

Valencia

The following list is derived from .

• Mubārak and Muẓaffar: 1010/11–1017/18

to Tortosa: 1017/18–1020/21

• ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī ʿĀmir al-Manṣūr, son of Sanchuelo: 1020/21–1060
• ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Niẓām al-Dawla al-Muẓaffar, son of prec.: 1060–1065

to the Dhuʾl-Nūnids: 1065–1075

• Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Manṣūr, brother of prec.: 1075–1085
• ʿUthmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Qāḍī, son of prec.: 1085

to the Dhuʾl-Nūnids

Dénia

The following list is derived from, who calls them the Banū Mujāhid. Mujāhid was a member of Muḥammad ibn Abi ʿĀmir's household.

• Mujāhid ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿĀmiri al-Muwaffaq: c.1012–1045
• ʿAlī ibn Mujāhid Iqbāl al-Dawla: 1045–1076

to the Hūdids

Almería

The following list is derived from .

• Khayrān al-Ṣaqlabī: c.1013–1028
• Zuhayr al-Ṣaqlabī: 1028–1038

to Valencia: 1038–1042

to the Banū Ṣumādiḥ

Tortosa

The following list is derived from .

• Labīb al-Ṣaqlabī: 1021–1036
• Muqātil al-Ṣaqlabī: 1036–c.1046
• Nabil: c.1046–c.1060

to the Hūdids

Sources

• Book: Bosworth, C. E. . Clifford Edmund Bosworth . 1996 . The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual . Edinburgh University Press.
• Book: Catlos, Brian A. . Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain . Hurst and Co. . 2018.
• Book: Makki, Mahmoud . Salma Khadra Jayyusi . The Legacy of Muslim Spain . Brill . 1994 . The Political History of al-Andalus (92/711–897/1492) . 3–87 .