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Just before his death, Muhammad II oversaw a successful campaign against Castile, taking advantage of Castile's concurrent war against Aragon and the minority of the Castilian king, Ferdinand IV. He routed the Castilian army at the Battle of Iznalloz in 1295 and conquered some border towns, including Quesada in 1295 and Alcaudete in 1299. [13]
Muhammad's main legacy was the founding of the Emirate of Granada under the rule of the Nasrid dynasty, which on his death was the only independent Muslim state remaining in the Iberian peninsula, [69] and would last for little over two centuries before its fall in 1492. The emirate spanned 240 miles (390 km) between Tarifa in the west and ...
A bronze lamp from the main mosque of Alhambra, dated to 1305 during the reign of Muhammad III [54] After Sancho IV's death in 1295, Muhammad II spent the rest of his reign going on the offensive against Castile, taking advantage of the weakness of the young new king, Ferdinand IV.
Muhammad sought terms, and secured a treaty with Castile on 19 February 1331. Alfonso XI soon broke the treaty by stopping food exports to Granada as had been agreed, while Aragon did not join the treaty and was invaded by Granadan forces. In September 1332, Muhammad sailed to the Marinid court at Fez to request help.
Muhammad II c. 1235-1302 Sultan of Granada r. 1273-1302: Muhammad III 1257-1314 Sultan of Granada r. 1302-1309: Fatima bint Muhammad 1260/1-1349: Abu Sa'id Faraj ibn Isma'il 1248-1320: Nasr 1287-1322 Sultan of Granada r. 1309-1314 King of Guadix r. 1314-1322: Isma'il I 1279-1325 Sultan of Granada r. 1314-1325: Muhammad Ibn Faraj: Muhammad IV ...
In the Marinid Empire, Death of Mustansir, succession of Muhammad. 1387: In the Marinid Empire, Muhammad overthrown by Abul Abbas who comes to power for the second time. 1388: In Algeria, death of Abu Hamuw II, succession of Abu Tashfin. In the Tughluqs empire, Death of Firuz Shah Tughluq, succeeded by his grandson Ghiasuddin Tughluq II.
The civil war ended in 1328 when Muhammad took a more active role in government. Castile and the kingdom of Aragon invaded Granada in 1330. In 1332, Muhammad sailed to the Marinid court at Fez to request help and the new Marinid Sultan Abu al-Hasan Ali sent 5,000 troops, who besieged the Castilians at Gibraltar.
Muhammad XI (Arabic: محمد الحادي عشر) (died 1454) was the nineteenth Nasrid ruler of the Moorish Emirate of Granada in Al-Andalus on the Iberian Peninsula. References [ edit ]