At that moment, the nominal ruler of al-Andalus, emir Yusuf ibn ' Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri ( another member of the Fihrid family, and a favorite of the old Arab settlers ( baladiyun ), mostly of south Arabian or ' Yemenite ' tribal stock ) was locked in a contest with his vizier ( and son-in-law ) al-Sumayl ibn Hatim al-Qilabi, the head of the new settlers ( shamiyum, the Syrian junds or military regiments, mostly of north Arabian Qaysid tribes, which had arrived only in 742 ).

The Almoravid emir, Yusuf ibn Tashfin besieges Ceuta.

* The Almoravid emir, Yusuf ibn Tashfin, conquers Tanger, Badis and Hunayn.

* The Almoravid emir, Yusuf ibn Tashfin, sends a maritime expedition to Palestine from Sevilla to ward off the Crusaders and maybe to reconquer Jerusalem.

When the governor Kutuk refused to aid them against an-Nasir Yusuf, Baibars deposed him and had al-Mugith Umar, the emir of Karak, pronounced in the khutba at the al-Aqsa Mosque ; al-Mugith Umar had allowed the political dissidents of Cairo and Damascus, who sought protection from the Mamluk and Ayyubid authorities, a safehaven within his territories.

A few years later, the prince allied with the emir of Sadjid, Yusuf, against Eastern Syunik, which they invaded together.

In the same year ( 909 ), the prince of Western Syunik, Grigor Sufan II, submitted to the emir Yusuf in Dwin.

The emir sent the Huesca native, general Amrus ibn Yusuf, and Zaragoza and Huesca were retaken ( c. 801 ).

The Almoravid emir Ali ibn Yusuf immediately called upon reinforcements from other parts of Morocco.

Feeling uneasy when the Syrian Emirs refused to pay homage to Shajar Addur and granted Damascus to an-Nasir Yusuf the Ayyubbid emir of Aleppo, Shajar al-Durr married Aybak then abdicated and passed the throne to Aybak after she ruled Egypt for 80 days.

During this time, emir al-Fihri and the Syrian commander al-Sumayl, pondered what to do about the new threat to their shaky hold on power.

Far away in Baghdad, the current Abbasid caliph, al-Mansur, had long been planning to depose the Umayyad who dared to call himself emir of al-Andalus.

"( Charlemagne's ) army was enlisted to help the Muslim governors of Barcelona and Zaragoza against the Umayyad ( emir ) in Cordoba ..." Essentially Charlemagne was being hired as a mercenary, even though he likely had other plans of acquiring the area for his own empire.

In 721, the emir of Córdoba had built up a strong army from Morocco, Yemen, and Syria to conquer Aquitaine, the large duchy in the southwest of Gaul, nominally under Frankish sovereignty, but in practice almost independent in the hands of the Odo the Great, the Duke of Aquitaine, since the Merovingian kings had lost power.

Zengi's territory had been divided amongst his sons after his death, and Damascus no longer felt threatened, so an alliance had been made with Zengi's son Nur ad-Din, the emir of Aleppo.

A drastic increase of taxes by the new emir Anbasa ibn Suhaym Al-Kalbi had provoked several rebellions in Al-Andalus, which a series of succeeding weak emirs were unable to suppress.

The emir of the city had requested Saladin's assistance and was given reinforcements under Turan-Shah — Saladin's brother.

By the time Edward arrived at Tunis, Charles had already signed a treaty with the emir, and there was little else to do but return to Sicily.

It was later believed that the emir of Caesarea had poisoned him, but there seems to be no basis for this rumour ; William of Tyre does not mention it.

In Moravia the excitement reached such a pitch that the government had to interfere, while at Sale, Morocco, the emir ordered a persecution of the Jews.

The new emir, Muhammad al Habib, had signed an agreement with the Waalo Kingdom, directly to the south of the river.

In 1164, when Nur ed-Din, the emir of Aleppo knew that King Amalric I had left for Egypt, he struck at the Principality of Antioch and laid siege to the key-fortress of Harenc.

However, Thoros II ’ s brother, Mleh disputed the succession ; Mleh had fled to Nur ed-Din ( the emir of Aleppo ) and become Moslim after quarreling with Thoros II and attempting to assassinate him.

The Banu Munqidh had taken control of Shaizar from the Byzantine Empire in 1080, and Nasr became its first emir.

They were there for the circumcision of the son of his cousin Muhammad, who had recently succeeded Sultan as emir.

Usama had three brothers, Muhammad, ' Ali, and Munqidh ; his cousin, also named Muhammad, succeeded Usama's uncle Sultan as emir of Shaizar.

Their masters had been cornered in the Iberian peninsula by Abd ar-Rahman I, the Umayyad emir of Córdoba.

Until A. H. 437 ( 1046 AD ), he worked as a financial secretary and revenue collector for the Seljuk sultan Toghrul Beg, or rather for his brother Jaghir Beg, the emir of Khorasan, who had conquered Merv in 1037.

His power as emir was confined to the area of Córdoba, while the rest had been seized by rebel families that did not accept his authority.

The trio approached the Syrian arch-commander al-Sumayl ( then in Zaragoza ) to get his consent, but al-Sumayl refused, fearing Abd al-Rahman would try to make himself emir.

With this act, Abd ar-Rahman proclaimed himself the emir of al-Andalus.

Indeed, Abd al-Rahman only proclaimed himself as emir, and not as caliph.

According to some sources, the emir himself was behind Muhammad's fall, as well as Al-Mutarrif's death in 895.

Although Antioch was severely weakened after the Battle of Ager Sanguinis in 1119, and Baldwin himself was held captive by the emir of Aleppo from 1122 – 1124, Baldwin led the crusader states to victory at the Battle of Azaz in 1125.

The emir was powerless to repel those raids by himself, thus the British maintained a military base, with a small air force, at Marka, close to Amman.

After his succession, he quickly set his uncle on negotiations with the emir to conclude the crusade, while he himself returned to France.

Guiscard immediately fortified Messina and allied himself with Ibn at-Timnah, one of the rival emirs of Sicily, against Ibn al-Hawas, another emir.

The emir was powerless to repel those raids by himself, thus the British maintained a military base, with a small air force, at Marka, close to Amman.

He was the nephew of the emir of Shaizar and probably expected to rule Shaizar himself, but he was exiled in 1131 and spent the rest of his life serving other leaders.

However, he cannot bring himself to do the act and instead sends Floris away to school, then sells Blanchefleur to merchants traveling on the way to Cairo ( called Babylon in the story ), where she is then sold to the emir.

The emir, Muhammad, sent an army north, but Amrus allied himself with García, and the Cordoban general, Abd al-Gafir ibn Abd al-Aziz, was killed before the gates of Zaragoza.

Previously, the emir had launched a series of aggressive attacks on neighboring kingdoms, so as to garner more territory for himself, but his military aspirations and capabilities paled in comparison with those of the Castilian king, who in the name of Christendom, in 1085, captured a culturally refined Toledo and exacted parias, or tribute, from proud Muslim princes in places such as Granada, al-Mu ' tamid of Seville being no exception.

Charged with fometing rebellion, Ibn Tumart defended himself before the emir and his leading advisors.

Presenting himself as a mere scholar, a voice for reform, Ibn Tumart set about lecturing the emir and his leading advisors about the dangers of innovations and the centrality of the Sunnah.

** Ibn Hud establishes himself emir of Murcia.

At the centre was the emir al-Mu ' minin (" commander of the faithful "), Adama himself, ruling from Yola and answering only to Usman dan Fodio in Sokoto.