Abstract
Abstract The first decades of the fifth/eleventh century were a confused period, with states coming into being, rulers coming and going, and no one, in all probability, fully aware that the old unitary state of the caliphal-‘ ūmirid regime was gone for ever. While later taifa rulers, in choosing a form of caliphal recognition, did so to suit such purposes as local legitimation or the need to temporize with Seville, the earliest ones often did so with completely different aims: they did so in what they thought of as the knowledge that their support for any particular caliphal pretender might well help towards the reconstruction of the unitary state, and thence towards their own fall, or just possibly their rise in subordination to a larger political unit than the one they were actually in control of already. In acting as they did, therefore, they took account, both at home, in their own individual states-inreadiness, and abroad, on the broader Iberian scene, of the possible reconstruction of peninsular unity.
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