Abd ar-Rahman I
731 CE – 788 CE · aged 57
Emir of Córdoba from 756 to 788
- Born
- 731 CE · Damascus
- Died
- 788 CE · Córdoba
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- 731 CEBornBorn in Damascus
- 756 CE – 788 CERoleEmir of Cordoba
- 788 CEDiedDied in Córdoba
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Biography
Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu'awiya (Arabic: عبد الرحمن إبن معاوية, romanized: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muʿāwiya; 7 March 731 – 30 September 788), commonly known as Abd al-Rahman I, was the founder and first emir of the Emirate of Córdoba, ruling from 756 to 788. He established the Umayyad dynasty in al-Andalus, which continued for nearly three centuries (including the succeeding Caliphate of Córdoba).
Abd al-Rahman was a member of the Umayyad dynasty in Damascus, and his establishment of a government in Iberia represented a break with the Abbasids, who had overthrown the Umayyads in Damascus in 750. He was also known by the surnames al-Dakhil ("the Immigrant"), Saqr Quraysh ("the Falcon of Quraysh").
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