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From: "Todd A. Farmerie" <>
Subject: Re: Mohammed the Prophet
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:40:32 -0600
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Marin-Guzman wrote:
>
> Much later she was removed and placed in Leon, and it is then the
> inscription - "H.R. Regina Elisabeth, uxor regis Adefonsi, filia Benabet
> Regis Sevillae, quae prius Zayda, fuit vocata" - was placed upon her tomb.
>
> My information on Zayda being the daughter of the king of Seville,
> Aben-Abeth (aka Ben Abad III, Abu Nabeth, Benabet etc) and widow of Fat el
> Mamun (aka Abu Nasr al-Fath al-Mamun) king of Cordoba and son of Muhammad
> Abu I Kasim al-Mutamid, came from a number of sources.

Oh, I shouldn't have missed this. The identity of her father as
"Aben Abeth" probably is derived directly from the inscription,
which calls her daughter of "Benabet". (The origin of that
statement remains a mystery.)

> Another source is Fr. Henriques Florez "España Sagrada", Madrid 1860, who in
> fact claims Zayda's christian name was to have been Maria but on preference
> of king Alfonso she changed it to Isabel.

Possible, but I have my doubts. I would be hard pressed to come
up with a single prior use of Maria, which makes its selection
unlikely. One wonders if this is projecting the more recent view
of Mary back to earlier times.

taf

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