Mohammad Abu Abdallah Ben Hudzail al Sahuir

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Mohammad Abu Abdallah Ben Hudzäil al Sähuir (1208 Vall de Alcalá, Alicante, - 1276, Alcoy), popularly known as Al-Azraq (of the blue eyes), an Arab Moorish commander in the Iberian Peninsula in the south of the Kingdom of Valencia.

He was son of Muslim father Hudzäil al Sähuir and of a Christian mother. As a vassal in the Christian Kingdom he spent long seasons in the courts of Aragon, Valencia and Granada pretending friendship with the kings from Aragon and of Castile.

After the conquest of the Kingdom of Valencia by Jaime I of Aragon, Al-Azraq signed the generous Al-Azraq Treaty of 1245 , a pact with the Aragonese king by which the Muslim commander could keep control of a series of fortifications in the valleys of Alcalá and Gallinera.

Al-Azraq betrayed the treaty in in 1248 and 1258, when he made an attempt on Jaime I life but was defeated.

Finally in 1276 the treacherous Arab commander met his death he was sieging Alcoy at the hands of a Christian native from Játiva.

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