#Subh

[isadomna]

Almanzor and Subh

Subh was originally a Christian woman from Navarre by the name Aurora. When she was just a child, was sold as a slave in the territory of Al-Andalus becoming part of the harem of the Caliph of Córdoba Al-Hakam II. She was given an exquisite training, from singing to Islamic jurisprudence to poetry, that was only available to women of the highest status and slaves. The duty of the slaves, as part of the harem, was to entertain powerful men with their songs, dances and cultured conversations. Blonde, tall and intelligent, Subh captured the Caliph’s attention becoming his favorite and wife. Subh gave her husband two sons: Abd al-Rahman (born 961 and deceased in 970) and Hisham (born 965). 

In the later years of his reign, the Caliph lost interest of the routine   management of political affairs, and reportedly left it to his favorite wife, Subh. To fill this task, she expressed the need for a secretary, and Al-Mansur Ibn Abi Amir (also known as Almanzor) was appointed to this post. Born in an alqueria on the outskirts of Torrox to a family of Yemeni Arab origin with some juridical ancestors, Almanzor left for Córdoba when still young to be trained as a faqīh. After a few humble beginnings, he joined the court administration and soon gained the confidence of Subh. The Caliph was surprised that his wives and concubines preferred the gifts of the young Almanzor to his own. There were rumors that Almanzor became Subh’s lover and that this was the reason why she was to give him such influence in the affairs of state.

In 976, Al-Hakam died and was succeeded by his son, the eleven-year old Caliph Hisham II, under the regency of Queen mother Subh, the first minister Jafar al-Mushafi, and Almanzor, who became the administrator of the properties left to Subh by Al-Hakam. It was only a matter of time before rivalries and alliances started to form between the three regents. Subh sought an alliance with Almanzor. They managed to eliminate the influence of the minister. Reportedly, Subh provided Almanzor with the necessary funds to give him control of the army, by which he could secure the stability necessary for her son, a child, to be secured as Caliph with her as regent, after which she gave him much power in her government.

The collaboration between Subh and Almanzor reportedly worked completely well, friendly and close until 986, but as Almanzor power grew and the caliph's isolation, Subh became extremely concerned, and their alliance and effective rule began to disintegrate in 996, when a conflict arouse between them, because Almanzor was so ambitious, he angered Subh and her other allies, putting him in front of her and her allies. This conflict, causing Subh to an unsuccessful attempt to depose Almanzor from his position by introducing other male favorites as his rivals. During two years of bloody rivalry only for their own power, they created divisions in the center of the caliphate. Her second and last attempt to depose him in 998 resulted in his complete accession of all power, and ended her rule. Hisham II was locked up – with all the comforts but without power – in Medina Alzahira, where his mother was probably also imprisoned. Having lost her confrontation with her former ally, Subh died shortly thereafter in 999. Almanzor was the de facto leader of the Caliphate of Córdoba until his death in 1002.   

[achyutapriya]

🪷🦚˚∗:𝙊𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙭𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣, 𝙍𝙪𝙠𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙞 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙚𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙮 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙆𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙣𝙖 𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙚. 𝙎𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙡𝙮 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙙𝙫𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙬𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙡𝙤𝙩𝙪𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙩, 𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙇𝙤𝙧𝙙. 𝘼𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙢𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙬 𝙆𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙣𝙖. 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙚 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙧𝙙 𝙨𝙚𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙚𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙩. 𝙇𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙩, 𝙬𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙛𝙡𝙖𝙜 𝙗𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙡𝙚𝙢 𝙤𝙛 𝙂𝙖𝙧𝙪𝙙𝙖, 𝙇𝙤𝙧𝙙 𝙈𝙖𝙙𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙖 𝙙𝙧𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙞𝙧𝙘𝙡𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨. 𝙒𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙗𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙢 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙙, 𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙡𝙮 𝙚𝙭𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙙, 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙖 𝙡𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙮 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙞𝙙𝙨𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙟𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙖𝙡𝙨˚∗: 🦚🪷

Source: Shrimad Bhagvatam Canto 10, chap 53

SUBH RUKMINI HARAN EKADASHI🪷

Rakhumai Rakhumai💗💗

[shyamasundar]

जगदानन्दकन्दाय प्रणतार्तहराय च ।

नीलाचलनिवासाय जगन्नाथाय ते नमः ॥

Obeisance to Jagannatha, residing at Nilachala (mountain of sky-blue light), the root cause of happiness and joy of this universe, the savior who hears the cries of those who bow at His feet.

[sanskari-kanya]

Don’t ever displace my adapter and charger from their spots istfg I’ll wreck havoc.

[dreamboatt]

शुभ धनत्रयोदशी।🚩

धनतेरस की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं

[nanshe-of-nina]

Women’s History Meme || Mistresses (5/10) ↬ Subh of Córdoba (c. 940 – c. 999)

His great opportunity came in 967 when he was entrusted with the administration of the property settled by the caliph upon his favourite consort, Subh – another concubine of Christian and Navarrese origin, carried off a captive to Córdoba. From that moment Almanzor’s future was assured. As Subh’s protégé and, it was whispered, her lover, he rose rapidly to become one of the leading civil servants of al-Andalus. When the caliph al-Hakem II died in 976 his son by Subh, Hisham II, was aged only eleven. The regency which governed in his name was a triumvirate formed of al-Mushafi, the first minister of the late caliph; the leading military man of al-Andalus, the general Ghalib; and Almanzor — Moorish Spain by Richard Fletcher One of the most famous examples is Subh, the jarya of the caliph al-Hakam, one of the greatest Umayyad caliphs of the Muslim Empire in Spain. Subh was consumed by ambition. She had two major faults to answer for to the Muslims: she was a foreigner and a Christian. Obviously such things could take place without unrest only in Muslim Spain, that particularly open and cosmopolitan civilization. Subh is usually called by the historians Sabiha Malika Qurtuba, queen of Cordova, Sabiha being one of the diminutives from the root word sabah, dawn. Her original name was Aurora, which had to be Arabicized without misrepresenting it too much. But others said that the prince, entranced by the beauty of the foreigner, called her Subh because she had that amazing soft glow of the Mediterranean dawn. She was the wife of al-Hakam al-Mustansir, the ninth Umayyad caliph of the western branch which reigned in Spain with Cordova as its capital for almost three centuries (138/756 to 422/1031). — Forgotten Queens of Islam by Fatimah Mernissi

[hum-suffer]

Almost threw up because I was over stimulated in my exams 🫠🫠 but hey, at least they're over

[mystyrust]

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[jayshrisitaram108]

JAY SHREE RADHE KRISHNA 🚩🙏SUBHA RATRI ✨

[propertyofkylar]

nica won't let us ask about scone! REVOLT REVOLT REVOLT REVOLT!

noooo r u kidding me 😭😭😭😭😭

[mahi-wayy]

I feel like death warmed over

[nonenglishsongs]

Thursday's Covers Day | Urban Turban & Shamim - Jag ger dig min morgon (Subhe män male tou) (Persian cover of "Jag ger dig min morgon", itself a Swedish cover of Tom Paxton's "I Give You The Morning")

[queenkevindays]

dunno what else to have for suhoor bc i’m feeling so sleepy now

[coffeeandinsanityy]

Bc pdhlo, vote vote krre ho subhe se...EXAMS HAI TUMHARE!!

[justarandomhumanpassingby]

guys ye cuet ka form bhar rhi hu mai subh se ab preview par jane nhi de rha ye bol rha hai bpl certificate do are nhi hai bhai mere pass ham nhi ate bpl me proceed krne de na tu mereko

[nuktaguidance]

انوار صبح و شام

انوار صبح و شام انوار صبح و شام صبح و شام کی مسنون دُعائیں انوار صبح و شام تالیف: مفتی محمد سلمان زاہد فاضل جامعہ دار العلوم کراچی ۔ استاذ جامعہ انوار العلوم شاد باغ ملیر کراچی اس کتاب میں صبح شام کی مسنون اور ماثور دعائیں جمع کی گئی ہیں۔ صبح اور شام کی دعاؤں کو الگ الگ باب میں جمع کیا گیا ہے تاکہ اُن کا دیکھنا اور پڑھنا آسان ہو۔ کتاب کی خصوصیات مندرجہ ذیل ہیں صبح و شام کی مسنون دُعاؤں کا ایک…