What if Sabur al-Amirí restored the Emirate of Córdoba?

Sabur al-Amirí was a Andalusian ruler of possible Slavic origin who started out as a slave and rose to be the governor of Badajoz. When the Caliphate of Córdoba collapsed, Sabur established a Taifa in Badajoz and excercised control over the entirety of the former Roman province of Lusitania. In our timeline, Sabur died and his two underage sons were muscled out of power by the Aftasí dynasty. What if Sabur lived longer, a son of his was able to take over, be relatively competent, and were able to kick Caliph Al-Qasim al-Ma'mun ibn Hammu out of Córdoba?

Essentially, what if a Taifa ruler was able to unite the fractured Muslim states of Al-Andalus in the early to mid 11th century?
 
There's no real sign that Taifa rulers really searched for a restoration of the emirate of Cordoba at their benefit even if they went trough regional unification by the middle of the XIth century.
They were more searching regional independence, not unlike what their precedessors attempted in the IXth/Xth centuries (which was as troubled for Umayyads than it was for Carolingians)

The strategical weaknesses of taifas were the same than al-Andalus during Umayyads, as in an extreme dependence on mercenaryship or recruitment from Christian Spain and Maghrib. While Umayyad Spain could, trough clientelism and sheer military strength, control their immediate neighborhood, there wasn't one taifa really able to do so, meaning the various Berber tribes were free to undergo their traditional cycle of unification/split/unification whom obvious targets were Ifriqiya and al-Andalus, further destabilizing these regions (and in the case of Spain, at the benefit of Christians).
Politically, Taifa's support essentially came from notable elites which weren't really thrilled at the perspective of a strong and intrusive power in al-Andalus, especially if the emir wannabee lacked a strong legitimacy (dynastical, championing Arabity as Umayyads did, and most of all beating up Christian kingdoms), or attempted to raise taxes.

Assuming Sabur al-Amiri does manages to make a bid for Cordoba (and abandon local leadership to his co-ruler which is likely IMO), defeat local opposition and survives (literally so, he would like a Clue character) the unmentionnable mess of what was Cordoba at this point, torn into multiple military-political factions, I'd rather see him restoring Umayyad dynasty under his influence.

How much would it be successful is anyone's guess, but its biggest impact would be allowing Umayyads to survive longer albeit without much real power and probably without great geopolitical impact apart a "Caliphal taifa" that would be an ambitious' magnet. Taifas would probably pay lip-service to the Caliph (especially if they make significant bid to control him) which would prevent neither the permanence of fragmentation or Christian influence and tributarisation of several taifas.
Still, the maintain of a unifying symbol could have some political consequences, but the growing illegitimacy of a Caliph unable to strike at Christians (which was really a determining factor of legitimacy in al-Andalus) would at best require from local "sultan" to sort it out himself and likely fail, if not for symbolical success, for the aformentioned reasons.

Of course survival of Umayyads is a "best-case scenario", and there's no telling when a local dynasty wouldn't pull an Hammudid, which would finally mercykill any semblance of caliphal authority in Spain.
 
Had the Umayyads imported large numbers of Berber warrior clans into North Africa (kinda like the Fatimids unleashing the Banu Hilal, I'm thinking), would a Reconquista have been prevented?
They more or less did it IOTL in the caliphal period : Berber mercenariate and Umayyad clientelisation of a large part of Magrib as a military pool was essentially this. Giving what happened with Hammudid, it was a mixed result : it did allowed a brief reinforcement of the caliphal authority, and it fueled the eventual disorder and ethno-political strife.
Note that Aloravid and Almohad takeover was also built on Berber going in numbers in Muslim Spain, which did significantly halted Reconquista twice (not that Arabo-Andalusians were particularily participating, willy-nilly at least).
 
They more or less did it IOTL in the caliphal period : Berber mercenariate and Umayyad clientelisation of a large part of Magrib as a military pool was essentially this.
What then made the Reconquista possible and Iberian attempts to conquer Morocco so unsuccessful (even during the collapse of the Marinids and political chaos in sixteenth-century Morocco)?
 
What then made the Reconquista possible
Political division, ethno-political factionalism, over reliance on mercenariate (which included Christian mercenaries), and general reinforcement of Christian northern polities and their forces (especially with Norman, Gascon and Languedocian increasing support).

Iberian attempts to conquer Morocco so unsuccessful (even during the collapse of the Marinids and political chaos in sixteenth-century Morocco)?
Political division, over reliance on Berber forces, inability to really push Christians at this point (without the civil war in Castille, Nasirids would have been history even earlier than IOTL), lack of any noteworthy navy (and being culturally dismissive to the very idea) and that Magrib dynasties were much more prone to invade al-Andalus than the contrary from the XIth onward.
 
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