Author profile: Dominik Cholewski

Changing Cordoba: An Essay on the first Cordoban Caliph

Dominik Cholewski • May 17 2010 • Essays

The second Umayyad Caliphate faced many struggles during its time in the Iberian Peninsula, from internal power conflicts among Muslim factions to the external pressures from the Christian north. ‘Abd al-Rahman III upheld the faith of Islam at a time when all seemed hopeless and was able to restore the Umayyad emirate to its previous stature as the Umayyad Caliphate, and himself to God’s representative on earth.

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