Europe · High and late Middle Ages
Taifa of Granada
1013–1090
Ṭā'ifa Gharnāṭa. Capital: Granada (developed from the Jewish township of Elvira). Ruled by the Berber (Sanhaja) Zirid dynasty: Zawi ibn Ziri (1013–1019/20), Habbus al-Muzaffar (1019/20–1038), Badis ibn Habus (1038–1073), and Abdallah ibn Buluggin (1073–1090).
- Existed
- 1013–1090
- Shown on the map
- 1015–1093
- Peak area
- 25k km²
- Region
- Europe
Names
Ṭā'ifa Gharnāṭa. Capital: Granada (developed from the Jewish township of Elvira). Ruled by the Berber (Sanhaja) Zirid dynasty: Zawi ibn Ziri (1013–1019/20), Habbus al-Muzaffar (1019/20–1038), Badis ibn Habus (1038–1073), and Abdallah ibn Buluggin (1073–1090). The Zirids employed the Jewish statesman Samuel ibn Naghrillah (Shmuel HaNagid, c. 993–1056) as grand vizier and army commander — an extraordinary rise for a Jew in the Islamic world — and his son Joseph ibn Naghrela (Yosef ha-Nagid). On 30 December 1066, the Granada massacre erupted: a mob crucified Joseph and killed much of the Jewish community (unverified estimates cite up to 4,000 dead). Abdallah ibn Buluggin wrote the Tibyan, a rare first-person memoir by a deposed ruler. The Almoravids conquered Granada in 1090 and exiled Abdallah.
Common questions
- What was the Taifa of Granada?
- Ṭā'ifa Gharnāṭa. Capital: Granada (developed from the Jewish township of Elvira). Ruled by the Berber (Sanhaja) Zirid dynasty: Zawi ibn Ziri (1013–1019/20), Habbus al-Muzaffar (1019/20–1038), Badis ibn Habus (1038–1073), and Abdallah ibn Buluggin (1073–1090).
- When did the Taifa of Granada exist?
- The Taifa of Granada existed 1013–1090. On this map it is drawn 1015–1093.
- How large was the Taifa of Granada?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Taifa of Granada covered about 25,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for al-Andalus, the taifas and the Christian kingdoms as the primary basis, with Encyclopædia Britannica, the World History Encyclopedia and academic work on the historiography of the Reconquista and the taifa period (García-Sanjuán). The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Taifa of Granada en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taifa_of_Granada
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