The Pyxis of Al-Mughira at Louvre Abu Dhabi is currently on loan from the ... half-brother of Caliph al-Hakam II, the second Umayyad caliph of Cordoba, who ruled from the years 961 to 976.

Al-Hakam II assumed governance of Andalusia on the third day of Ramadan. According to Arab and foreign historians, he was a great and knowledgeable king. He was the ninth emir of the Umayyad state ...