Ja'far ibn Ali ibn Hamdun al-Andalusi explained

Ja'far ibn Ali ibn Hamdun al-Andalusi was a governor of M'Sila for the Fatimid Caliphate, who in 971 defected to the rival Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba. He was assassinated in 982 by the Umayyad chamberlain, Almanzor.

Sources

• Book: Manzano, Eduardo . La corte del califa: Cuatro años en la Córdoba de los omeyas . Editorial Crítica . 2019 . Barcelona . 978-8-49199028-4 . Spanish . The Court of the Caliph: Four Years in Umayyad Córdoba.

Further reading

• Book: Canard, Marius . Marius Canard . Une famille de partisans puis d'adversaires des Fatimides en Afrique du Nord . 1957 . Mélanges d'histoire et d'archéologie de l'Occident musulman . II . 33–49 . French.