Sabur al-Saqlabi

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Funerary gravestone of Sabur. Archaeological Museum of Badajoz. Lapida del hayib Sapur (16502179436).jpg
Funerary gravestone of Sabur. Archaeological Museum 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. 1 2 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. 1 2 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. 1 2 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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