He resided in the Alcazaba, while the palaces were being built and was the last Nasrid to do so. From then on, the Alcazaba was only used as a fortress for military purposes.
He also oversaw construction of a nearby public bathhouse, the income from which paid for the mosque. He was responsible for the construction of the Great Mosque of the Alhambra as well as the Palacio de Partal within the Alhambra. This worried Castile, the Marinids, and Aragon who allied against him. Initial military successes allowed him to control Ceuta in North Africa. Succeeded his father possibly after poisoning him. Muhammad III was the third Nasrid Sultan and ruled between 1302 and 1309. He survived through diplomacy and battle. He was caught between Castile to the north and the Muslim Marinid state to the south. Muhammad II was the second Nasrid Sultan and ruled between 12. He died in 1273 after falling off his horse and was succeeded by his son, Muhammad II. In 1248 he helped the Christian kingdom take Seville from the Moors.
He concentrated on protecting his modest territories, which included the cities of Malaga and Almeria. The emirate spanned 240 miles between Tarifa in the west to Almería in the east, and was around 60 to 70 miles wide from the sea to its northern frontiers. He added three new towers to the Alcazaba, which were the Torre Quebrada, Torre del Homenaje and the Torre de la Vela. He began extending this and building the Alhambra. He installed his capital in Granada from 1237 and lived in the Alcazaba, built by the Zirids in the 11th century. He became a tributary vassal of the Christian king Ferdinand III of Castile and later of Alfonso X. In 1236, Muhammad I switched sides and joined forces with the Catholic monarch Fernando III to conquer Cordoba in exchange for the city of Granada. While he did briefly take control of Córdoba and Seville, he lost both cities to Ibn Hud and was forced to acknowledge Ibn Hud’s suzerainty. In 1232 Muhammad ibn al-Ahmar the ruler of Jaen rebelled against the leader of Al-Andalus, Ibn Hud. Muhammad I was the first Nasrid Sultan and ruled between 12. Twenty-three different emirs ruled Granada from the founding of the dynasty in 1232 by Mohammed I ibn Nasr until January 2, 1492, when Muhammad XII surrendered to the Christian Spanish kingdoms of Aragon and Castile. The dynasty rose to power after the defeat of the Almohad Caliphate in 1212 at the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa. The Nasrid dynasty was the last Moorish and Muslim dynasty in Spain.
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