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Muhammad II of Córdoba

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Reign
  
1009

Successor
  
Sulayman ibn al-Hakam

Died
  
1010, Córdoba, Spain

Predecessor
  
Hisham II

Mohammed II al-Mahdi (Arabic: محمد الثاني ، المهدي‎‎) was the fourth Caliph of Cordoba, of the Umayyad dynasty in the Al-Andalus (Moorish Iberia). After disbanding his army of 7,000 troops, he became the source of opposition to many of his subjects. al-Mahdi sought to defend his title as Caliph after the rise of Suleiman II as a political opponent. After a turbulent rule, in which many warring factions rose to power in an attempt to supplant al-Mahdi, he was eventually deposed. After his death, many Muslim historians accused him of destroying the sanctity of the Amirid Harem.

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