Career
He is the last, Zirid, ruler of the Taifa of Granada (1073-1090). The Zirids were of North African, Berber descent. During his exile in Aghmat Bulughin wrote his memoires and the history of the Zirides in Granada.
lieutenant is called First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Tibyan an al-haditha al-kaina bi-dawlat Bani Ziri fi Gharnata (An Expositon of the Downfall of the Zirid Dynasty in Granada).