ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Molina, Luis
Leiden
Brill
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ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (r. 275-300/888-912) was the seventh Umayyad amīr of al-Andalus. His reign was a struggle for survival in the face of threats that, very early on, put in danger both his throne and the continued existence of the Umayyad dynasty in al-Andalus. He was designated amīr in Ṣafar 275/June 888, after the sudden death of his brother al-Mundhir, who had been engaged in combat with the rebel ʿUmar b. Ḥafṣūn (d. 305/918). ʿAbdallāh's reign coincided