Abd al-Rahman I

Abd al-Rahman I
عبد الرحمن إبن معاوية
Emir
Dirham coin of Abd al-Rahman I
1st Emir of Córdoba
Reign14 May 756 – 30 September 788
PredecessorYusuf ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri (as governor of al-Andalus)
SuccessorHisham I
Born7 March 731
Damascus, Syria Umayyad Caliphate
Died30 September 788 (aged 57)[1]
Qurtuba, Al-Andalus, Emirate of Cordoba (present-day Spain)
ConsortSeveral; including Hulal
IssueSulayman
Omar
Hisham I
Abdullah
DynastyUmayyad
FatherMu'awiya ibn Hisham
MotherRaha
ReligionSunni Islam

Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu'awiya ibn Hisham (Arabic: عبد الرحمن إبن معاوية إبن هشام, romanizedʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muʿāwiya ibn Hishām; 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"),[2] Saqr Quraysh ("the Falcon of Quraysh").[3]

  1. ^ Al-Bayan al-Mughrib by Ibn Idhari, Vol. 2 p. 69, 2013
  2. ^ Lévi-Provençal 1960, pp. 81–82.
  3. ^ Allen, Roger (2000). An Introduction to Arabic Literature. Cambridge University Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-521-77657-8.