Abd ar-Rahman V () was an Umayyad

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. During the decline of the Umayyad dynasty in the

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), two princes of the house were proclaimed

for a very short time,

Abd-ar-Rahman IV Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik (), commonly known as Abd al-Rahman IV, was the Caliph of the Umayyad state of Córdoba in Al-Andalus, succeeding Ali ibn Hammud al-Nasir in 1018. That same year, he was murdered at Cadiz while fleeing ...

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

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, and murdered in January 1024 by a mob of unemployed workmen, headed by one of his own cousins.

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