Aghlabid

== English == === Alternative forms === Aghlabite === 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. (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. ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === Ibrahim I ibn al-Aghlab on Wikipedia.Wikipedia