Directory of Aghlabid Emirate Resources

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Haroun al Rashid appointed Ibn-al-Aghlab as governor of Ifriqiyya (mainly in Tunisia). From their capital in Kairaouan, they dominated the mid-Mediterranean. Officially under the rule of the Abbasid Caliphate, but in reality Abbasid power stopped at the border of Egypt.

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• The Aghlabids

  http://www.friesian.com/islam.htm#aghlab
  Part of a substantial article on Islamic history, dealing with the Aghlabids; originally faithful Abbasid governors of Tunisia, who gradually drifted out of central control. Their greatest independent project was the conquest of Sicily.

 

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