AL-MU'TAMID IBN ABBAD

(al-Mu'tamid Muhammad ibn Abbad Ibn Ismail al-Lakhmi | Muhammad Ibn Abbad Al Mutamid)

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Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad

I have no desire to be branded by my descendants as the man who delivered al-Andalus as prey to the infidels. I am loath to have my name cursed in every Muslim pulpit. And, for my part, I would rather be a camel-driver in Africa than a swineherd in Castile

Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad

If I have to chose, I would rather tend camels for the Almoravids than pasture swine under the Christians.

Yusuf was the ruler of the Almoravids, a Berber empire of North Africa and Mauritania. The Almoravids were a particular zealous group of Muslim fundmentalists. Al-Mutamid and the other Muslim petty kings of Spain asked help from the Almoravids who invaded Spain in 1090 and unified the then Islamic state. By that time al-Mutamid had evacuated Seville and passed away.

Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad

They give war to me that I do not want.

Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad

Never did I charge into battle with the hope of returning safe This is the way of my ancestors The roots beget the stems

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al-Mu'tamid Muhammad ibn Abbad Ibn Ismail al-Lakhmi, lived 1040–1095, was the third and last ruler of the taifa of Seville in Al-Andalus. He was a member of the Abbadid dynasty.