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Ziyadat Allah I

d. 838 · 9th century

Ziyadat Allah I was the Aghlabid emir of Ifriqiya from 817 to 838. After surviving a long revolt of the Arab army, he sent a fleet under the jurist Asad ibn al-Furat to invade Byzantine Sicily in 827, beginning a conquest that took about seventy-five years. He also rebuilt the Great Mosque of Kairouan in 836.

Ziyadat Allah I
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Aghlabid emirate

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