Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Hudhayl al-Saghir () (1208 in

la Vall d'Alcalà La Vall d'Alcalà (, Spanish: ) is a valley in the Marina Alta region of Alicante, Spain. The area contains two villages: Alcalà de la Jovada and Beniaia. In the past, there were also another five villages, some of them now uninhabited or in ru ...

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– 1276

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), popularly known as Al-Azraq (, 'the Blue' – referring to his eyes), was an

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commander in the

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in the south of the

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. After the conquest of the

James I of Aragon James I the Conqueror ( Catalan/Valencian: ''Jaume I or Jaume el Conqueridor''; Aragonese: ''Chaime I'' ''o Conqueridor''; ; 2 February 1208 – 27 July 1276) was King of Aragon, Count of Barcelona, and Lord of Montpellier from 1213 to 1 ...

, Al-Azraq signed the

Al-Azraq Treaty of 1245 The Al-Azraq Treaty of 1245 was a surrender treaty between the Christianity, Christian King James I of Aragon, James I of Aragón, his son-in-law Prince Alfonso X of Castile, and the Mudéjar commander Al-Azraq, Abū 'Abd Allāh Muhammad ibn Hudha ...

, a pact with the Aragonese king by which the Muslim commander could keep control of a series of fortifications including Polop (later the lordship of the Barons of Polop) in the valleys of Alcalá and Gallinera.

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