ʿAbd al-Malik al-Muẓaffar - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Ávila, María Luisa
Leiden
Brill
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ʿAbd al-Malik b. Muḥammad b. Abī ʿĀmir al-Muẓaffar (364-399/975-1008) was the son of al-Manṣūr b. Abī ʿĀmir and al-Dhalfāʾ, a slave of Christian origin, and succeeded his father on 27 Ramaḍān 392/10 August 1002 as ḥājib (chamberlain) of the Umayyad caliph of al-Andalus, Hishām II (r. 366-99/976-1009 and 400-3/1010-1013); he continued in that post until his death. ʿAbd al-Malik followed the political path trod by his father: he ruled al-Andalus with absolute power,