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Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa ibn Nusayr

عبد العزيز بن موسى بن نصير

Mus a ibn Nusayr's son, left as his deputy in al-Andalus with his seat at Seville; he secured the frontiers, founded many cities and was the best of its governors, until the army killed him after 95 on Sulayman's orders — one charge being his marriage to Roderic's widow Umm Asim — and his head was laid before his father 1.

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The Umayyad Period
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al-Andalus & Europe
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Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa ibn Nusayr, son of Musa ibn Nusayr. He took over al-Andalus after his father returned from it, and made Seville his seat. He secured its authority, guarded its frontiers and conquered many cities, and he was among the best of its governors, though his term did not last long. 2

The army turned on him after 95 AH, in the caliphate of Sulayman, and killed him over matters they held against him. Among them, they claimed that he had married the wife of Roderic, called Umm Asim, and his head was brought to Sulayman. 3 Al-Salabi notes that the people of Seville rose during his father's siege of Merida, and that his son retook it and then conquered Lablah and Wabba. 4 He also says that some of his own soldiers killed him treacherously at the beginning of Rajab 97 AH. 5

The two accounts differ on the year of his death (95 AH or 97 AH), and this needs an additional source.

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Child of
موسى بن نصير
Spouse of
أم عاصم زوجة لذريق

People and things also explored

Conquest of al-Andalus· The Conquest of Tangier· The Conquest of Toledo· Abd al-Malik ibn Musa ibn Nusayr· Abdallah ibn Musa ibn Nusayr· نصير أبو موسى بن نصير· موسى بن نصير· أم عاصم زوجة لذريق

Sources

  1. Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari , p. 317, 335
  2. Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari , p.317
  3. Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari , p.335
  4. The Umayyad State: Factors of Prosperity and Consequences of Collapse — Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi (Part Two, 2005) , p.76
  5. The Umayyad State: Factors of Prosperity and Consequences of Collapse — Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi (Part Two, 2005) , p.83
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Conquest of al-Andalus

Tabari reports under the year 91 that Musa ibn Nusayr raided al-Andalus and that towns and fortresses were opened at his hands. The index heading 'Conquest of al-Andalus' falls under the year 92. According to al-Baladhuri, on the authority of al-Waqidi, Tariq ibn Ziyad, Musa's deputy, raided al-Andalus; he was the first to raid it, in the year 92. Alyan, governor of the strait to al-Andalus, met him, and Tariq granted him safe-conduct on condition that he carry Tariq and his companions to al-Andalus in ships. When they arrived, its people fought them and he conquered it, also in the year 92; its king, they claim, was of the al-Ashban, whose origin was Isfahan. The book notes that the conquest came after a reconnaissance raid led by Tarif ibn Malik in Ramadan 91 AH (July 710 CE), then Tariq ibn Ziyad's crossing in Rajab 92 AH, and that the book rejects the reports that make booty the cause of the conquest. The book says that Musa set out from al-Qayrawan in 93 AH and took Carmona, then Seville and Merida; he met Tariq at Toledo in late 94 AH, then reached Galicia and the Asturias; and that al-Walid summoned him to Damascus, where he arrived in 96 AH before al-Walid's death.