Aghlabid

English

Alternative forms

• Aghlabite

Etymology

From Aghlab ‎ -id, from Arabic أَغْلَب (ʔaḡlab).

Noun

Aghlabid (plural Aghlabids)

1. (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.

   • 2006, Jonathan David Wyrtzen, “Aghlabids”, in Josef W. Meri, editor, Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, Volume 1, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 19:

     A failure to overcome critical internal divisions, however, weakened the Aghlabids and led to their collapse before the Fatimid army of Kutama Berbers.

2. (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.

   • 2006, Jonathan David Wyrtzen, “Aghlabids”, in Josef W. Meri, editor, Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, Volume 1, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 19:

     The ulama critiqued excesses and injustices they identified in the Aghlabid regime, including usury, un-Islamic taxation (applying a land tax to Muslim subjects and demanding payment of tithes in money not in kind), and the production and sale of wine.

Translations

member of a dynasty

• Arabic: أَغْلَبِيّ m (ʔaḡlabiyy)
• Bengali: আগলবিয়া (aglobiẏa)
• Italian: aglabita m

Further reading

• Ibrahim I ibn al-Aghlab on Wikipedia.Wikipedia