Muhammad I of Cordoba (823-886) was the Emir of the Cordoba Emirate from 852 to 886, succeeding Abd-al-Rahman II of Cordoba and preceding al-Mundir of Cordoba.
Biography[]
Muhammad was born in 823, the son of Emir Abd-al-Rahman II of Cordoba. He was a Sunni Muslim Bedouin of the House of Umayyad, and claimed to be the Sultan of the Umayyad Sultanate; in reality, he ruled the Emirate of Cordoba, a rump state of the once-great Umayyad Caliphate. Muhammad reigned in Alcolea, Qurtubah, during his 34-year reign as Emir of the Cordoba Emirate. He suppressed rebellions by the muladi (Spanish converts to Islam) and mozarabs (Christians under Moorish occupation), and he crushed a rebellion of Toledo. He died in 886, and his son Emir al-Mundir of Algarve returned from Gharb Al-Andalus to succeed him.