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Title: Arabic Spain : sidelights on her history and art
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Whishaw, Bernhard Whishaw, Allen Mary
Subjects: Art, Byzantine Arabs -- Spain Spain -- History
Publisher: London : Smith
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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heir own independence, mustbe examined in another chapter. Tho Andalucian quarter (Barrio de los Andahices) still exists inFez, and one district in it is still called Triana, after the Potters subiirbin Seville. Here stands the mosque of the Beni Idris, who ruled NorthAfrica, from Fez to Biserta, in the tenth century. In 973 tho last of theBeni Idris submitted to the over-lordship of Hishamll., and Almansurbuilt a chapel for the adornment of this mosque, and presented apulpit of richly carved ebony to its Aljama (Conde, i. 472, 614-6). When the discontented tribes besieged Fez under the FrenchProtectorate in May of this year (1912), their first thought was to forcetheir way into the Andalucian quarter and possess themselves of theL^acred banner of the Beni Idris, which is preserved in the ancientmosque. This they succeeded in doing, in spite of tho efforts of theFrench artillery, their intention being to proclaim tho Holy War under the ancient banner of the Fatimite rulers of Morocco.
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Vmr^. Fig. lU.—ConvciUo dc la Laz (Xo. 2). Copto-Arabic pointed arches of thegreat Central Court. CHAPTER XIV ANDALUCIA IN THE ELEVENTH CENTURY The following is a brief sketch of the political conditionsprevailing in the eleventh century, when the states governedby men of Yemenite descent, or by their clients, were unitedin a loose federation under the Imamate of the KhahfHisham II. until his death in 1058, and then continued theirfederation under the over-lordship of the Abbadites ofSeville. Badajoz.—The government was assumed in 1009 byShabur, a freedman of the family of Almansur, who coinedmoney under the title of Hajib (of Hisham IL). His tomb,stone was discovered in 1881 in pulHng down a house in theCalle de Abril in Badajoz. The inscription gives the nameof Shabur the Hajib, and the date of his death, 1022.* Hewas succeeded by the Beni-Al-Aftas of the tribe of Tojib,who also coined money as Hajibs of Hisham. They wereliterary men, and seems to have remained loyal to the last

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