Aftasid dynasty

Aftasid dynasty
بنو الأفطس
Arabized Iberian-Berber dynasty
CountryTaifa of Badajoz
Founded1022
TitlesSultan
Dissolution1094

The Aftasid dynasty (Arabic: بنو الأفطس Banu al-Aftas) was an Arabized Iberian-Berber[1] dynasty that ruled the Taifa of Badajoz in Al-Andalus.[2]

  1. ^ Ilahiane, Hsain (2017-03-27). Historical Dictionary of the Berbers (Imazighen). Rowman & Littlefield. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-4422-8182-0.
  2. ^ The Iberian Peninsula and Sicily, Ambroxio Huici Miranda, The Cambridge History of Islam, Vol. 2A, ed. P. M. Holt, Peter Malcolm Holt, Ann K. S. Lambton, Bernard Lewis, (Cambridge University Press, 1970), 421.