- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
-
siege of the
Byzantine city of Rometta, in
northeastern Sicily, by the
Kalbids on
behalf of the
Fatimid Dynasty, that took
place between 963 and 965 and...
- 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...
- 2
April 1075 to 3
February 1094. Ali ibn al-Hasan al-Kalbi (died 982),
Kalbid emir of
Sicily Abu al-Qasim
Kashani (died
after 1324),
Persian historian...
- 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...
