Editing Almanzor (section)

== Origins and youth ==
Although there are doubts about the exact date of his birth, everything seems to indicate that it occurred around the year 939.{{sfn|Bariani|2003|p=52}}{{sfn|Echevarría Arsuaga|2011|p=33}}{{sfn|Cañada Juste|1992|p=372}}{{sfn|Valdés Fernández|1999|p=13}} He was born into an Arab landowning family{{sfn|Fletcher|2000|p=91}} of [[Yemen]]i origin,{{sfn|Delgado Hernández|2010|p=127}}{{sfn|Martínez Díez|2005|p=483}}{{sfn|Lévi Provençal|1957|p=398}} belonging to the [[Al-Hujariah|al-Ma'afir tribe]].{{sfn|Valdés Fernández|1999|p=13}}{{sfn|Lévi Provençal|1957|p=398}} They had been established since the conquest of [[Visigoths|Visigothic]] Iberia in Torrox, a farm by the mouth of the [[Guadiaro (river)|Guadiaro]] river,{{sfn|Cañada Juste|1992|p=372}}{{sfn|Cano Borrego|2004|p=}}{{sfn|Echevarría Arsuaga|2011|p=35}}{{sfn|Ballestín Navarro|2004|p=28}}{{sfn|Lévi Provençal|1957|p=398}} belonging to the ''cora'' (territorial subdivision) of  ''al-Jazīrah'' (governed from  ''al-Jazīrah al-Khaḍrāʾ الجزيرة الخضراء'', the site of modern [[Algeciras]]).{{sfn|Valdés Fernández|1999|p=13}}{{sfn|Martínez Díez|2005|p=483}} His family had received lands there from [[Tariq ibn Ziyad]] as reward to an ancestor, Abd al-Malik, who had distinguished itself in the taking of [[Carteia]] during the [[Umayyad conquest of Hispania]].{{sfn|Cañada Juste|1992|p=372}}{{sfn|Lévi Provençal|1957|p=398}}{{sfn|Echevarría Arsuaga|2011|p=35}}{{sfn|Ballestín Navarro|2004|p=28}}{{efn|The abundance of place names derived from Arabic ''Turrux'' in [[Andalusia]]- mainly in the provinces of [[Province of Málaga|Málaga]] and [[Province of Granada|Granada]] – has led several cities to mistakenly be designated as the birthplace of the Al-Andalus general.{{sfn|Martínez Enamorado|Torremocha Silva|2003|p=59}}}}

Some of the family had served as [[Qadi]]s and jurists.{{sfn|Fletcher|2000|p=91}}{{sfn|Lévi Provençal|1957|p=398}} The family's position improved significantly with the appointment of ibn Abi ʿĀmir's paternal grandfather as Qadi of [[Seville]] and his marriage to the daughter of a [[vizier]], governor of [[Badajoz]] and doctor to Caliph [[Abd al-Rahman III]].{{sfn|Echevarría Arsuaga|2011|p=38}} ibn Abi ʿĀmir's father, Abd Allah, was described as a pious, kind and ascetic man,{{sfn|Echevarría Arsuaga|2011|p=39}} who died in [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]]{{sfn|Lévi Provençal|1957|p=398}} while returning from his pilgrimage to [[Mecca]].{{sfn|Echevarría Arsuaga|2011|p=41}}{{sfn|Ballestín Navarro|2004|p=31}} His mother, Burayha, also belonged to an Arab family.{{sfn|Lévi Provençal|1957|p=398}} Even so, the family was middle class, modest{{sfn|Kennedy|1996|p=109}} and provincial.{{sfn|Valdés Fernández|1999|p=14}}