ABSTRACT
In the case of the other Muwallad rebels, the evidence for their supposed "Visigothic noble" origin is practically nil. In order to "prove" a noble origin for Ibn al-Shaliya, Acien offers only a poem in which his nobility is exalted13-as if courtly panegyrics could be taken at face value as historical evidence. In the case of al-Jilliqi, Acien takes his noble origins for granted, but does not provide any evidence to this end, 14 claiming that, just as had occurred with Ibn I:Iaf1?iln 's grandfather, al-Jilliqi's family must have emigrated from some "ancestral lands". I deduce that Aden situates those "lands" in Jilliqiya, since, according to him, this would explain the nisba
due to confiscation, just as in the case of Artobas? 17 See Al-Bayiin al-mughrib, 2, p. 117 (= 114); Dozy, 2, p. 18. Also in Ibn 'Askar: see J.
