Aghlabid
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Etymology
From Aghlab + -id, from Arabic أَغْلَب (ʔaḡlab).
Noun
Aghlabid (plural Aghlabids)
- (historical) Any member of an Arab dynasty of emirs who ruled Ifriqiya and parts of Southern Italy, nominally on behalf of the Abbasid Caliph, from 800–909 CE.
- 1987, Jamil M. Abun-Nasr, Ǧamīl M. Abū al-Naṣr, Abun-Nasr, Jamil Mirʻi Abun-Nasr, A History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period, Cambridge University Press, page 55,
- In the rest of their dominions the Aghlabids could exercise only indirect and in some areas even nominal control.
- 2006, Jonathan David Wyrtzen, “Aghlabids”, in Josef W. Meri, editor, Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, Volume 1, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 19:
- A failure to overcome critical internal divisions, however, weakened the Aghlabids and led to their collapse before the Fatimid army of Kutama Berbers.
- 1987, Jamil M. Abun-Nasr, Ǧamīl M. Abū al-Naṣr, Abun-Nasr, Jamil Mirʻi Abun-Nasr, A History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period, Cambridge University Press, page 55,
- (attributive use) attributive form of Aghlabids; the dynasty of the Aghlabids.
- 1987, Jamil M. Abun-Nasr, Ǧamīl M. Abū al-Naṣr, Abun-Nasr, Jamil Mirʻi Abun-Nasr, A History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period, Cambridge University Press, page 55,
- The Aghlabid state comprised the area to which the wilaya of Ifriqiya had been reduced after 761, namely Tunisia, eastern Algeria, and Tripolitania.
- 2006, Jonathan David Wyrtzen, “Aghlabids”, in Josef W. Meri, editor, Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, Volume 1, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 19:
- The ulama critiqued excesses and injustices they identified in the Aghlabid regime, including usury, un-Islamic taxation (applying a land tax to Muslim subjects and demanding payment of tithes in money not in kind), and the production and sale of wine.
- 1987, Jamil M. Abun-Nasr, Ǧamīl M. Abū al-Naṣr, Abun-Nasr, Jamil Mirʻi Abun-Nasr, A History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period, Cambridge University Press, page 55,
Translations
member of a dynasty
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Further reading
Ibrahim I ibn al-Aghlab on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
