Ja'far ibn Ali ibn Hamdun al-Andalusi was a governor of M'Sila for the Fatimid Caliphate, who in 971 defected to the rival Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba. He was assassinated in 982 by the Umayyad chamberlain, Almanzor.

References

Sources

• Manzano, Eduardo (2019). La corte del califa: Cuatro años en la Córdoba de los omeyas [The Court of the Caliph: Four Years in Umayyad Córdoba] (in Spanish). Barcelona: Editorial Crítica. ISBN 978-8-49199028-4.
• le Tourneau, R. (1965). "Ḏj̲aʿfar b. ʿAlī b. Ḥamdūn al-Andalusī". In Lewis, B.; Pellat, Ch. & Schacht, J. (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam. Volume II: C–G (2nd ed.). Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 372–373. OCLC 495469475.

Further reading

• Canard, Marius (1957). "Une famille de partisans puis d'adversaires des Fatimides en Afrique du Nord". Mélanges d'histoire et d'archéologie de l'Occident musulman (in French). Vol. II. pp. 33–49.