A Brief History of the Arab World

Abdal raman was able to take on the firids of alandelus and set himself up as the new emir, or arab moslem ruler. It would take almost 25 years to put down all of the fired rebellions in alandelus. But essentially this was the start of the emerot of cordova, an umad emerot, which arose in the wake of the fall of the umad caliphate.