- The
Kalbids (Arabic: بنو كلب, romanized: Banū Kalb) were a
Muslim Arab
dynasty which ruled the
Emirate of
Sicily from 948 to 1053. They were formally...
-
Aghlabid rule
after 909. From 948 onwards, the
island was
governed by the
Kalbid dynasty, who
ruled as
autonomous emirs while formally acknowledging Fatimid...
- of both
Kalbid Sicilians and
Zirid Africans. The
battle resulted in an
important Norman victory as it led to the
abandonment of the
Kalbids by their...
- The
Muslim alliance consisted of the
native Sicilian Muslims under the
Kalbid ruling class of Palermo, led by Ibn al-Hawas, and
Zirid reinforcements from...
- Holy
Roman Emperor Otto II and his Italo-Lombard
allies and
those of the
Kalbid emir of Sicily, Abu'l-Qasim, who had
declared a holy war
against the Germans...
-
Qarmati advance was
halted just
north of the city and
eventually routed. A
Kalbid relief force arriving by sea
secured the
expulsion of the
Qarmatis from...
- main
Byzantine fortress on the island, Taormina. The
siege was led by the
Kalbid cousins Ahmad ibn al-Hasan al-Kalbi and al-Hasan ibn
Ammar and
lasted for...
-
province of Ifriqiya, and with it Sicily. The
Fatimids (and
after the 950s the
Kalbid hereditary governors of Sicily)
continued the
tradition of jihad, both against...
- 1086, the
Normans managed to
secure the
conversion of the last
important Kalbid ruler of Enna Ibn Hamud. This
conversion along with the
Norman adoption...
- of
Ifriqiya also
intervened in
Sicily during the 11th century, as the
Kalbids, the
dynasty who
governed the
island on
behalf of the Fatimids, fell into...
