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3 unusual facts about Taifa


Taifa

During the late 11th century, when the First Crusade waves were carving out their territories in the Jerusalem area, the Christians of the northern Iberian peninsula set out to take over the Sarasin or Muslim territories.

Taifa, Accra

It has a breakpoint on a railway line and a small park located on the northern edge of the location of the Taifa Ghana Atomic Energy Commission.

The town in under the jurisdiction of the Ga East Municipal District and is in the Dome-Kwabenya constituency) of the Ghana parliament.


Almoravid dynasty

Their religious teachers, as well as others in the east, (most notably, al-Ghazali in Persia and al-Tartushi in Egypt, who was himself an Iberian by birth from Tortosa), detested the taifa rulers for their religious indifference.

Álvar Fáñez

He became the subject of legend, being transformed by the Poema de Mio Cid, Spain's national epic, into Álvar Fáñez Minaya, a loyal vassal and commander under Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, El Cid, during the latter's exile and his conquest of Valencia.

Ibn Hazm

After the death of the grand vizier al-Muzaffar in 1008, the Umayyad Caliphate of Iberia became embroiled in a civil war that lasted until 1031 resulting in its collapse of the central authority of Córdoba and the emergence of many smaller incompetent states called Taifas.

Jazmin Hiaya

Jazmin Hiaya (late tenth to third decade of the eleventh century) of Arabic جازمين حيية this king was the only Arab military governor of the short-lived known Taifa of Talavera de la Reina.

Jasmin Hiaya was military governor and king of the Taifa of Talavera de la Reina, (Medina at Talavayra) in Spain in the early eleventh century AD

Jérica

The first references to the present nucleus of the settlement are in the period of Muslims' presence in the area, including the Taifa of Valencia and the after the disintegration of the Caliph of Córdoba in 1027 and then the subsequent capture of the area by the Cid in 1098.

Kingdom of Valencia

Shortly after, in 1233, Borriana and Peniscola were also taken from the بلنسية Balansiyya (Valencia in the Arabic language) taifa.

Lordship of Albarracín

In 1167, under the pressure from the ongoing wars between the Almoravid Dynasty and the new invasions of the Almohad Caliphate, the Moorish King Muhammad ibn Mardanis (nicknamed the Robber King), ceded the Taifa of Albarracín to a vassal of Sancho VI of Navarre, a noble from Estella-Lizarra named Pedro Ruiz de Azagra.

Muhammad al-Tawil of Huesca

While always nominally a vassal of Córdoba, the rebellious, semi-autonomous actions of the Banu al-Tawil along with those of their rivals the Banu Qasi set the stage for their Banu Tujibi and Banu Hud successors, to establish a fully independent taifa state in what had been the Upper March of the Caliphate.

Rociana del Condado

In 1262, thanks to the conquest of Niebla by Alfonso X, Taifa territory became part of the Castilian kingdoms, so the subject population was overwhelmingly Christian culture, that still reigned in Castile.

Taifa of Zaragoza

The taifa of Zaragoza was an independent Muslim state in Moorish Al-Andalus, present day eastern Spain, which was established in 1018 as one of the taifa kingdoms, with its capital in Islamic Saraqusta (Zaragoza) city.


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