![]() In 1053, he invited a number of minor Berber princes from the south to his palace in Seville, suffocating them to death by treating them to a steam bath, having first sealed up all of the openings in the bathhouse. Sometime around 1048 he began a campaign of conquest in the frontier region, during which he subdued and annexed five principalities. Al Mu’tadid was a gifted politician, as well as a poet and patron of the arts, but he was above all else ruthless, his ambition matched by his cruelty.
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