The taifa of Zaragoza was an independent Muslim state which was established in 1018 as one of the taifa kingdoms, which emerged in the 11th century following the destruction of the Cordoban Caliphate in Iberia. During the first three decades of this period, 1018–1038, the city was ruled by the Banu Tujibi. They were replaced by the Banu Hud, who had to deal with a complicated alliance with El Cid of Valencia and his Castilian Masters against the Almoravids who managed to bring the Taifas Emirates under their control. After the death of El Cid his kingdom was overrun by Almoravids and by 1100 Almoravids had managed to cross the Ebro into Barbastro, which brought Aragon into direct contact with Almoravids, The Banu Hud stubbornly resisted Almoravids and ruled until they were eventually defeated by the Almoravids in May 1110. The last sultan of the Banu Hud, Abd-al-Malik Imad ad-Dawla, the last king of Zaragoza, forced to abandon his capital, allied himself with the Christian Aragonese under Alfonso I el Batallador and from the time the Muslims of Zaragoza became military regulars within the Aragonese forces.
List of Emirs
Tujibid dynasty
Huddid dynasty
- Suleiman Al-Mustain I ibn Hud: 1038/9-1046
- Muhammad al-Hayib Adud ad-Dawla (Calatayud): 1046/7-1066/7 with...
- Lubb (Huesca): 1047-1048 and...
- Mundir al-Hayib al-Zafir Nasir ad-Dawla (Tudela): 1047-1048/9 and...
- Yusuf al-Muzaffar Sayf ad-Dawla (Lérida): 1047-1078/81 and...
- Abu Ya'far Ahmad al-Muqtadir: 1046-1081 or 82/3
- Yusuf al-Mu'tamin: 1081 or 82/3-1085
- Ahmad II al-Musta'in: 1085-1110
- 'Abd al-Malik Imad ad-Dawla (Rueda, Z. 1110 only): 1110-1130
- Abu Dja'far Ahmad Zafadola (Rueda. In Val. 1146): 1130-1131 d. 1146
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