The ʿAbbādids (Banū ʿAbbād) were a dynasty (of Lakhmid stock), which reigned over southwestern al-Andalus-with Seville as its capital-from 417/1027 to 484/1091-2, during the period of the mulūk al-ṭawāʾif (party kings; the singular noun ṭāʾifa , which means literally "party, faction," refers by extension to each of the small, independent kingdoms that arose in Muslim Spain after the fall of the caliphate of Córdoba in 1031, and "Taifa" is used in English to refer to the era and the dynasties of those kingdoms). The