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Valencia

بلنسية

Valencia, the great city of eastern al-Andalus; held for the Almoravids by the qadi Ibn Jahhaf, taken by Rodrigo el Campeador in 488 after a twenty-month siege — the poet Ibn al-Banna among its burn victims — retaken by the Almoravid amir Mazdali in 495 1.

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Abbasid Fragmentation
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al-Andalus & Europe
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Valencia is a city in eastern al-Andalus on the sea. Al-Maqqari mentions that its affair passed to the jurist and judge Abu Ahmad ibn Juhhaf. Then Ruderic al-Qanbiyatur seized it in the year 488 AH, or it is said the year before, after a siege of twenty months, and he burned it. 2

After the siege

Among those burned in it was the man of letters Abu Ja'far ibn al-Buni. Then the commander Abu Muhammad Mazdali conquered it in the year 495 AH, as an envoy of Yusuf ibn Tashfin. After that the Banu Ghaniya and Ibn Mardanish governed it. 2

In his mention of it, al-Maqqari gives a verse by Ibn Khafaja as a witness, in lament for the city. 3

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Place of death of
Abu Muhammad al-Ilyusi· ابن الزقاق البلنسي
Site of
Capture of Valencia by al-Qanbiyatur (the Campeador)

People and things also explored

ردريق القنبيطور· Capture of Valencia by al-Qanbiyatur (the Campeador)· Abu Muhammad al-Ilyusi· ابن الزقاق البلنسي

Sources

  1. Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari , p. 455-456
  2. Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari , p.455
  3. Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari , p.456
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islam.museum contributors. “Valencia”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/valencia/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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ردريق القنبيطور

Rodrigo, called al-Qanbitur (el Campeador) and 'the tyrant' in the Muslim sources; raised by Yusuf ibn Hud of Zaragoza to take Valencia, he entered it in 488 after a twenty-month siege, burned the qadi Ibn Jahhaf alive over the hidden treasury, and destroyed the city until the Almoravid Mazdali retook it in 495.