- (1108–1131) Ali ibn
Yahya (1115–1121) Abul-Hasan al-Hasan ibn Ali (1121–1152) (
Ifriqiyan coast annexed by
Norman Sicily (1143–1160))
Roger II of
Sicily (1143-1154)...
- ****igned
garrison duty on the more
troubled frontiers).
Although the
Ifriqiyan Arab
governor Musa ibn
Nusair had
cultivated his
Berber lieutenants (most...
- al-Zanati.
Khalid ibn
Hamid destro**** the
Ifriqiyan army at the
Battle of the
Nobles in late 740. The main
Ifriqiyan army
under Habib ibn Abi
Obeida al-Fihri...
- ibn Abi Habib, m****acring the
cream of the
Ifriqiyan Arab nobility. News of the
slaughter of the
Ifriqiyan nobles spread like a shock-wave. The reserve...
-
Tunisian Arabic, or
simply Tunisian (Arabic: تونسي, romanized: Tūnsi), is a
variety of
Arabic spoken in Tunisia. It is
known among its 12
million speakers...
- "Ifriqiya". By 1148, the
Normans had
managed to take
control of most of key
Ifriqiyan cities,
including Tripoli, Gabis, Sfax, and even the
Zirid capital of...
- of Sousse, and
established a line of new
naval signal towers along the
Ifriqiyan coast (it
reportedly took one
night to
dispatch a
message from
Ceuta in...
-
Qurtubah in 756.
While the
Andalusi branch was
eclipsed by the Umayyads, the
Ifriqiyan branch of the
Fihrids descended into a
bloody family quarrel in 755, that...
-
could redirect the
destructive energies of a
restless jund
across the
Ifriqiyan–Sicilian
channel to
secure new
sources of
manpower and wealth". Ziyadat...
- [citation needed]
Habib ibn Abi
Ubaida parti****ted in the 712
expedition of
Ifriqiyan governor Musa ibn
Nusair to
conquer Spain. In 714,
Habib was appointed...
