Afṭasid dynasty

Afṭasid dynasty, Muslim Berber dynasty that ruled one of the party kingdoms (ṭāʾifahs) at Badajoz in western Spain (1022–94) in the period of disunity after the demise of the Umayyad caliphate of Córdoba. The Lower Frontier (modern central Portugal) had enjoyed a measure of autonomy after the death of the Umayyad caliph al-Ḥakam II (976), when it was ruled by his freed slave, Sābūr (976–1022). In 1022, at Sābūr’s death, his minister ʿAbd Allāh ibn...