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Sulaymán ibn Hud al-Mustain I 'al-Mutamin', rey de Lérida y Zaragoza

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Sulaymán ibn Hud al-Mustain I 'al-Mutamin', rey de Lérida y Zaragoza (b. - 1047)

Arabic: سليمان "المستعين بالله" بن هود‎, .
Also Known As: "Abu-Ayyub Sulayman ibn Muhammad ibn Hud al-Judhami al-Musta'in"
Birthdate:
Death: 1047
Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain
Immediate Family:

Father of Abú Yaáfar Áhmad ibn Sulaymán al-Muqtádir, rey de la taifa de Saraqusta; Al-Muzáffar, de Lérida; Lubb, de Huesca; Muhámmad, de Calatayud and Múndir, de Tudela

Dyasty: Hudid (Banū Hūd)
Regnal name: al-Mustaʿin bi-Illah ('He who looks for help to God')
Managed by: Livio Scremin
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About Sulaymán ibn Hud al-Mustain I 'al-Mutamin', rey de Lérida y Zaragoza

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Musta%27in_I

Sulayman ibn Muhammad ibn Hud al-Judhami (Arabic: سليمان بن محمد بن هود الجذامي), known by the regnal name al-Mustaʿin bi-Illah (Arabic: المستعين بالله, lit. 'He who looks for help to God'), was the first member of the Banu Hud family to rule the medieval taifa of Zaragoza, today a province in Spain. He ruled from 1039 (when he seized control of the city from the Banu Tujib) to 1046.



SULEYMAN bin Hud Mutamin (-1046). Abd el-Wahid Merrakechi records that "Soleyman b. Houd…surnom…Moutamin, son fils…Moktadir et son petit-fils…Mostain" held "Tortose…Saragosse…Fraga, Lérida et Calatayud"[645]. Suleyman had one child:

a) al-MUQTADIR (-1081). Abd el-Wahid Merrakechi records that "Soleyman b. Houd…surnom…Moutamin, son fils…Moktadir et son petit-fils…Mostain" held "Tortose…Saragosse…Fraga, Lérida et Calatayud"[646]. al-Muqtadir had one child:

i) al-MUSTAIN (-killed in battle near Zaragoza [1109/10]). Abd el-Wahid Merrakechi records that "Soleyman b. Houd…surnom…Moutamin, son fils…Moktadir et son petit-fils…Mostain" held "Tortose…Saragosse…Fraga, Lérida et Calatayud"[647]. Ibn Khaldun records that "Ali-Ibn-Youçof" crossed into Spain A.H. 503 (1109/10) and that "El-Mostain-Ibn-Houd" was killed defending Zaragoza against "le fils de Radmir" [Alfonso I King of Aragon] who proceeded to besiege Tudela[648]. https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/MOORISH%20SPAIN.htm



https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Musta%27in_Ier

Sulayman al-Musta'in I has five known sons:

  1. Ahmad ibn Sulayman (?-1082), who takes the honorary title of al-Muqtadir ("mighty by the grace of God"), Ta'fa king of Saragossa;
  2. Yusuf ibn Sulayman, who takes the honorary title of al-Muzaffar ("the victor"), Taif king of Leriada;
  3. Muhammad ibn Sulayman, Taif king of Calatayud;
  4. Lubb ibn Sulayman, Taif king of Huesca;
  5. Mundir ibn Sulayman, Taif king of Tudela.

Kennedy, Hugh. Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of al-Andalus. (Publication: 06-12-1966). Page 136. "The Taifa Kingdoms." < Archive.Org >

In the chaos, power was seized by Sulayman b. Hud. Sulayman came from a family which claimed descent from the Arab tribe of Judham. Like al-Mundhir al-TujIbi, he had risen in the army of al-Mansur, and when the caliphate collapsed, he took over Tudela and Lleida. He had also acquired a reputation as a warrior against Sancho the Great of Navarre and when he arrived in Zaragoza, ostensibly to avenge the assassinated al-Mundhir al-Tujibi, he was widely welcomed. He and his family soon acquired a firm grip on the Taifa, and he installed his sons as governors in Zaragoza, Calatayud, Huesca, Tudela and Lleida. The Tujibis disappeared from the scene and it was the Hudids who were to rule the Taifa until its annexation by the Almoravids in 1110. (13)

13. Ibn al-Kha^, A‘mdly pp. 198-204; Ibn Idhari, Al-Baydn, iii, pp. 175-81, 2215; A. Turk, ‘El reino de Zaragoza en el siglo XI de Cristo’, in Revista del Instituto de Estudios Islamicos en Madrid 17(1972-73), 7-122, and 18 (1974-75), 7-74; Wasserstein, Party Kings, pp. 93-4; Viguera Molins, Los Reinos de Taifas, pp. 72-80.


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