Abdallah ibn Buluggin

Abdallah ibn Buluggin (died, in Meknes, after 1090), also known as Al-Muzaffar, the conqueror, is the grandson of Badis ibn Habus. He is the last, Zirid, ruler of the Taifa of Granada (1073-1090).[1][2] The Zirids were of North African, Berber descent.

During his exile in Aghmat Bulughin wrote his memoires and the history of the Zirides in Granada. It is called Al-Tibyan an al-haditha al-kaina bi-dawlat Bani Ziri fi Gharnata (An Expositon of the Downfall of the Zirid Dynasty in Granada).[3]

References

  1. ↑ Clifford Edmund Bosworth, The new Islamic dynasties: a chronological and genealogical manual, Edinburgh University Press, 2004, p. 17
  2. ↑ Évariste Lévi-Provencal, "Les Mémoires" de 'Abd Allah, dernier roi ziride de Grenade, Fragments publiés d'après le manuscrit de la Bibliothèque d'al Qarawiyin à Fès avec une introduction francaise," Al-Andalus 3 (1935): 245
  3. ↑ The Tibyān : memoirs of 'Abd Allāh B. Buluggīn last Zīrid Amīr of Granada, transl. by Amin T. Tibi, Brill Archive, 1986, isbn=978-90-04-07669-3, online google books: retrieved January 4, 2011


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