Badis ben Habus

Dirham of Badis ben Habus.

Badis ben Habus was the third Berber king of the Kingdom of Granada and the founder of Alhambra palace, ruled between 1038 and 1073.

Member of the Berber Zirid dynasty, succeeded to the throne of the Granada taifa of his father Habbus al-Muzaffar although this had to deal with a conspiracy of part of the Granada court supported as a successor to his cousin Yaddair ben Hubasa. However, the plot failed thanks to his vizier, the Jew Samuel ibn Naghrillah, who thus reinforced its position in the kingdom.

In 1038, following the confrontation with the king of Taifa of Almería, Zuhair, took control of the territory of the Almeria taifa and, the following year, managed to curb the expansionist ambitions of the king Taifa of Seville, Abu al-Qasim al defeat in Écija in coalition with the Taifa of Málaga and Badajoz.

In 1057 he won the Taifa of Málaga annexing his kingdom and placing her firstborn son, Buluggin Ben Badis as governor, who nevertheless would not succeed his father as head of the Granada taifa since I died poisoned in 1064, apparently by Joseph ben Nagrela who had succeeded his father Samuel vizier. The death of the firstborn placed her second child Maksan Ben Badis as heir to the throne, but again the intrigues of the vizier Joseph ben Nagrela made Maksan was exiled to Jaén, where he was declared independent.

Joseph continued plotting against Badis ben beans and in 1066, reached an agreement with the Taifa king of Almería, ben Muhammad al-Mu'tasin Ma'n so that it became the capital of the kingdom, Granada. The conspiracy reached the ears of the people, who rose killing the vizier Joseph and most of the Jewish population of the city (see Slaughter of Granada 1066).

After the death of the vizier Joseph, the position was occupied by the Arab Al-Naya and after his assassination by the Abu-l-Rabbi, mozárabe who successfully maneuvered to Badis ben Habus not appoint his successor his son Maksan which had lost Jaén at the hands of Seville and he was a refugee in the Taifa of Toledo, but his grandson Abdallah ibn Buluggin, who finally succeeded Badis when he died in 1073.