Abd al-Rahman V

Abd ar-Rahman V
عبدالرحمٰن الخامس
Abd ar-Rahman V; عبدالرحمٰن الخامس
9th Caliph of Córdoba
Reign	1023 – 1024
Predecessor	al-Qasim al-Ma'mun
Successor	Muhammad III
Born	1001
Died	1024 (aged 22–23); Cordoba
Dynasty	Umayyad
Father	Hisham bin Abd al-Jabbar bin Abd ar-Rahman III
Mother	Ghaia

Abd ar-Rahman V (Arabic: عبد الرحمن بن هشام المستظهر بالله, romanized: ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān ibn Hishām al-Mustaẓhir bi-llāh) was an Umayyad Caliph of Córdoba.

In the agony of the Umayyad dynasty in the Al-Andalus (Moorish Iberia), two princes of the house were proclaimed Caliph of Córdoba for a very short time, Abd-ar-Rahman IV Mortada (1017), and Abd-ar-Rahman V Mostadir (1023–1024). Both were the mere puppets of factions, who deserted them at once. Abd-ar-Rahman IV was murdered the same year he was proclaimed at Cadiz, in flight from a battle in which he had been deserted by his supporters. Abd-ar-Rahman V was proclaimed caliph in December 1023 at Córdoba, and murdered in January 1024 by a mob of unemployed workmen, headed by one of his own cousins.^[1]

References

^ Luis Pericot García (1970). La Alta Edad Media (siglos v al XIII) por J. M. Rubio et al. Instituto Gallach de Librería y Ediciones.

Abd al-Rahman V Caliphate of Córdoba Cadet branch of the Umayyad dynasty Died: 1024
Preceded by Abd ar-Rahman IV	Umayyad Leader 1017–1024	Succeeded by Muhammad III
Preceded by al-Qasim al-Ma'mun	Caliph of Córdoba 1023–1024