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The Iqrītish dynasty (early third/ninth century to 350/961) was a minor dynasty in Crete, established by the Andalusian Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar b. Shuʿayb al-Ballūṭī, who led a group of refugees expelled from Andalusia by the amīr al-Ḥakam I (r. 180–206/796–822). Abū Ḥafṣ, also called Ibn al-Ghalīẓ (the fat, or tough), was a little-known inhabitant of Pedroche (Biṭrawsh), in the suburb Faḥṣ al-Ballūṭ, a district of Islamic al-Andalus north of Córdoba (Christides, Abū Ḥafṣ, 7–8). The new dynasty lasted
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- Publisher(s):Brill
- Language:eng
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