Muzna

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Muzna (died 968) was a concubine. She was the mother of Abd al-Rahman III.

Her name means "Rain Cloud" in Andalusian Arabic.^[1]

She was a woman of the harem of the Emir of Cordoba, the concubine of Prince Muhammad and the mother of Caliph Abd al-Rahman III,^[2] which confers the title of umm Walad, which is that carried by the mother of the royal children.

She was of Basque origin, Frankish according to André Clot.^[3] She was initially Christian before her conversion to Islam.^[4][5] She was the granddaughter of Fortún Garcés of Pamplona, from the royal family of Navarre, the Arista.^[6] She died in 968.^[7]

In his treatises and works such as The Necklace of the Dove, Ibn Hazm names her by his own name, Hazm and seems to emphasize family ties between him and her.^[8]

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