Ibn al-Qitt

Abu l-Qasim Ahmad b. Mu‘awiya b. Muhammad b. Hisam b. Mu‘awiya b. Hisam b. ‘Abd al-Rahman b. Mu‘awiya, known as Ibn al-Qitt (died 901), was an Umayyad Cordobese rebel and self-proclaimed Mahdi.
A member of the Umayyad royal family, he was a great-great-grandson of Hisham I of Córdoba. Convinced by the ascetic Abū ʻAlī al-Sarrāŷ (possibly an Isma'ili Shia agent sowing discord), who presented him as Mahdi, Ibn al-Qitt rebelled against the emiral rule of Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi in Córdoba, and waged a Jihad against Christians. Apparently followed in his rebellion by Berbers from Llano de los Pedroches, sierra de Almadén, Trujillo, Nafza, the Guadiana basin, south-west Iberia, Toledo, Talavera and Santaver, his first military operation in Christian lands was an attack in 901 AD against Zamora, where, following the defection of a number of Berber chieftains, he was reportedly captured and beheaded.