The Third Siege of Gibraltar was mounted Process_start between February–June 1333 by a Moorish army under the prince Abd al-Malik Abd al-Wahid of Morocco .

After over four months of siege and bombardment by Moorish catapults , the garrison and townspeople were reduced Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale to near-starvation and surrendered Surrendering to Abd al-Malik .

Under the leadership of Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan , the Umayyads reasserted Recovering control over the caliphate after defeating the Zubayrids at the Battle of Maskin in Iraq and killing Ibn al-Zubayr in the Siege of Mecca in 692 .

Abd al-Malik made key reforms Reforming_a_system in the administrative structure of the caliphate , including increasing caliphal power , restructuring Reforming_a_system the army and Arabizing and Islamizing the bureaucracy .

The Fourth Siege of Gibraltar , fought Hostile_encounter from June until August 1333 , pitted a Christian army under King Alfonso XI of Castile against a large Moorish army led by Muhammed IV of Granada and Abd al-Malik Abd al-Wahid of Fes .