Editing Abd al-Rahman I (section)

{{Short description|Emir of Córdoba from 756 to 788}}
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{{Infobox royalty
| type         = monarch
| name         = Abd al-Rahman I{{break}}{{lang|ar|عبد الرحمن إبن معاوية}}
| title        = [[Emir]]
| image_size   = 275
| image        = Dirham abd al rahman i 21816.jpg
| caption      = [[Dirham]] coin of Abd al-Rahman I
| predecessor  = [[Yusuf ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri]] (as governor of al-Andalus)
| succession   = 1st [[Emir of Córdoba]]
| reign        = 14 May 756 – 30 September 788
| coronation   = 
| predecessor1 = 
| successor1   = [[Hisham I of Córdoba|Hisham I]]
| spouse       = Several; including Hulal
| spouse-type  = Consort
| issue        = Sulayman<br>Omar<br>[[Hisham I of Córdoba|Hisham I]]<br>[[Ubayd Allah Abu Marwan|Abdullah]]
| house        = [[Banu Umayya|Umayyad]]
| house-type   = Dynasty
| father       = [[Mu'awiya ibn Hisham]]
| mother       = Raha
| birth_date   = 7 March 731
| birth_place  = Damascus, Syria [[Umayyad Caliphate]]
| death_date   = 30 September 788 (aged 57)<ref>''[[Al-Bayan al-Mughrib]]'' by [[Ibn Idhari]], Vol. 2 p. 69, 2013</ref>
| death_place  = [[Córdoba, Spain|Qurtuba]], [[Al-Andalus]], [[Emirate of Cordoba]] (present-day [[Spain]])
| place of burial = 
| signature    = 
| religion     = [[Sunni Islam]]
}}

'''Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu'awiya ibn Hisham''' ({{Langx|ar|عبد الرحمن إبن معاوية إبن هشام|translit=ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muʿāwiya ibn Hishām}}; 7 March 731 – 30 September 788), commonly known as '''Abd al-Rahman I''', was the founder and first emir of the [[Emirate of Córdoba]], ruling from 756 to 788. He established the [[Umayyad dynasty]] in [[al-Andalus]], which continued for nearly three centuries (including the succeeding [[Caliphate of Córdoba]]).

Abd al-Rahman was a member of the Umayyad dynasty in [[Damascus]], and his establishment of a government in Iberia represented a break with the [[Abbasid]]s, who had [[Abbasid Revolution|overthrown the Umayyads]] in Damascus in 750. He was also known by the surnames ''al-Dakhil'' ("the Immigrant"),{{Sfn|Lévi-Provençal|1960|pp=81–82}} ''Saqr Quraysh'' ("the Falcon of [[Quraysh (tribe)|Quraysh]]").<ref>{{Cite book |last=Allen |first=Roger |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9cOAPkN31vAC&pg=PA22 |title=An Introduction to Arabic Literature |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-521-77657-8 |pages=22}}</ref>