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claims that the inhabitants of the raided territory offered to submit to Sayf al-Dawla if he would defend them from the Christians. Sayf al-Dawla came with an army. He himself "entered camp peacefully." He demanded the Christians hand over their captives and booty and submit the issue to the emperor
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The Muslim accounts carry no ambivalence. The story has a clear moral, either that Muslim princes who serve Christian rulers meet bad ends or that Sayf al-Dawla redeemed himself in the end by resisting. Ibn al-Abbār says that he and his soldiers who died at Albacete were
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specifies that Sayf al-Dawla was killed without authorization by some knights "because of their own special religious sentiments." Alfonso VII was saddened by his death and declared his own innocence.
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to settle. The counts refused, claiming "we have done just as you and the emperor have commanded us." Sayf al-Dawla threatened battle and the counts responded, "Now is the time and the hour."
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and al-DhahabÄ« agree that in the subsequent engagement, Sayf al-Dawla was captured and subsequently killed. Al-DhahabÄ« adds that Ibn ÊżIyād escaped. The
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There are conflicting accounts of the circumstances that led to the battle. According to the
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Muslim sources, however, portray Sayf al-Dawla as responding to Christian raiding around
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The Wolf King: Ibn Mardanish and the Construction of Power in al-Andalus
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Christian source, Sayf al-Dawla requested assistance from the Emperor
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and al-Dhahabī, the battle was preceded by negotiations. The
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in Exile: Sayf al-Dawla and the Survival of the Banƫ Hƫd".
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The Chronicle of Alfonso the Emperor: A Translation of the
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The Aristocracy in Twelfth-century LeĂłn and Castile
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Index

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Reconquista
Covadonga
1st Roncevaux Pass
Burbia River
Orbieu River
Lutos
Las Babias
RĂ­o QuirĂłs
Oviedo
1st Lisbon
1st Barcelona
1st Tortosa
Pancorbo
2nd Roncevaux Pass
Clavijo
Albelda
Guadalacete
Monte Laturce
Morcuera
Polvoraria
1st Cellorigo
2nd Cellorigo
2nd Barcelona
Day of Zamora
1st Majorca
Pallars and Ribagorza
1st San Esteban de Gormaz

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