Timeline Explorer · Cordoba · Stop 1 of 9
c. 711 CE · c. 92 AH approximate debated before the Hijra
Tariq's lieutenant Mughith al-Rumi took Cordoba in 92 by a wall-breach a shepherd showed him — a fig tree for scaling and a heaven-sent drizzle masking the hooves — and captured its fleeing lord near Tatlira .
Conquest of Cordoba — c. 711 CE · c. 92 AH
Tariq's lieutenant Mughith al-Rumi took Cordoba in 92 by a wall-breach a shepherd showed him — a fig tree for scaling and a heaven-sent drizzle masking the hooves — and captured its fleeing lord near Tatlira .
The battle of al-Rabad — c. 818 CE · c. 202 AH
The Rabad revolt: Cordoba's learned and pious rose against al-Hakam I in his dissolute early years; he crushed the western suburb, razed its houses and mosques and scattered its people to Fez and Alexandria — whence Abdallah b. Tahir expelled them to Crete, where they held the island until the Franks took it .
The Rabad fitna in Cordoba — c. 818 CE · c. 202 AH
The famous revolt of the Rabbaḍ of Cordoba under al-Hakam ibn Hisham: the scholars of learning and piety — Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi, Malik's companion and Muwatta transmitter, the faqih Talut and others — rose against him, deposed him and gave bay'a to a kinsman; al-Hakam crushed them, demolished their houses and mosques, and the exiles went to Fez and Alexandria — where they revolted again until Abdallah ibn Tahir expelled them to Crete, which they held until the Franks took it .
The Cordoba Strife and the Rising of Ibn Abd al-Jabbar — 1009 CE · 399 AH
The Cordoba fitna of 399–400: the Umayyad Muhammad ibn Hisham rose as 'al-Mahdi', hid the caliph Hisham al-Mu'ayyad and buried a Christian lookalike in his name; his uncle Hisham's counter-revolt failed, then Sulayman al-Musta'in marched in with Christian allies, won the great battle (35,000 dead), and took the bay'a while Berbers and Christians sacked the city .
The Berbers enter Cordoba by storm — c. 1013 CE · 403 AH
In 403 Sulayman al-Musta'in and the Berbers stormed Cordoba after a siege that starved its villages; Hisham al-Mu'ayyad was secretly killed, the city's households violated, and the Berbers and Saqaliba scattered to found taifa states .
Alfonso's Siege of Cordoba and Its Submission to the Almohads — c. 1150 CE · c. 545 AH
Alfonso VII's siege of Cordoba (545) with forty thousand horse while the city starved; Abd al-Mu'min sent twelve thousand under whom the Frank withdrew, and the commander Abu al-Ghamr al-Sa'ib surrendered it to Yahya ibn Maymun — then the Almohad army entered al-Andalus twenty thousand strong under al-Muntati, and Granada's Maymun and Ibn Hamushk submitted .
Tahāfut al-Tahāfut written — c. 1179 CE · c. 575 AH†
In 1179–80 Ibn Rushd composed his three connected treatises in defence of philosophy: Faṣl al-Maqāl, Kashf al-Manāhij, and Tahāfut al-Tahāfut answering al-Ghazali .
The battle of al-Arak (Alarcos) — 1195 CE · 9 Sha'ban 591 AH
The famous Battle of al-Arak (Alarcos): after the truce lapsed and the Franks raided, the Almohad sultan Ya'qub al-Mansur crossed to al-Andalus in 591; the armies met north of Cordoba near Qal'at Rabah on Thursday 9 Sha'ban, the Franks charged the sultan's flags held by Abu Yahya ibn Abi Hafs — a decoy — then al-Mansur broke them utterly; sixty thousand Frankish mail-coats entered the treasury and chroniclers ranked it with or above Zallaqa .
The enemy's capture of Cordoba — c. May 1239 CE · 23 Shawwal 636 AH
The Castilian capture of Cordoba on Sunday 23 Shawwal 636, within the reconquest register that took Zaragoza in 512, Murcia by treaty 643 and Seville 646 .
