Muhammad I ibn al-Aghlab
| Abu'l-Abbas Muhammad ibn al-Aghlab | |
|---|---|
Aghlabid | |
| Military career | |
| Years of service | c. 845 – 856 |
| Battles / wars | Arab raid of Rome |
Abu'l-Abbas Muhammad I ibn al-Aghlab (
Aghlabid dynasty, who ruled over Ifriqiya, Malta, and most of Sicily from 841 until his death. He also led the raid of Rome
.
Muhammad I was the son of the dynasty's fourth emir,
Kalfün with the establishment of an Islamic Bari
.
Naples allied with his preceding rulers and asked for their support to repel the siege of Lombard troops coming from the Duchy of Benevento, but, despite the previous Muslim-Christian alliance,[1] Abul Abbas sacked Miseno, but only for Khums purposes (Islamic booty), without conquering the territories of Campania.[2][3]
Notable was his raid on
Roman walls. Simultaneously, his other forces landed at the Tyrrhenian Sea port of Civitavecchia. The Vatican Hill was plundered, but Abul Abbas was unsuccessful in storming the protective Aurelian walls of Rome. However, his forces managed to loot huge amount of wealth St. Peter's Basilica, the world's biggest church, and Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls.[4]
In
Maliki scholar and jurist Sahnun
.
Death
Muhammad I died in Palermo in 856. He was succeeded by his son Ahmad ibn Muhammad (856–863), under whose reign the kingdom of the Aghlabids reached its zenith.
References
- Kenneth Meyer Settonand Marshall W. Baldwin (eds.), A History of the Crusades: The First Hundred Years, Vol. 1 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1955), p. 47
- ^ Barbara M. Kreutz, Before the Normans: Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991), 57.
- ^ Hilmar C. Krueger. "The Italian Cities and the Arabs before 1095" in A History of the Crusades: The First Hundred Years, Vol.I. Kenneth Meyer Setton, Marshall W. Baldwin (eds., 1955). University of Pennsylvania Press. p.48.
- ^ Italian Peninsula, 500–1000 AD Archived 5 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine
Sources
- Marçais, G. & Schacht, J. (1960). "Ag̲h̲labids or Banu 'l-Ag̲h̲lab". In OCLC 495469456.
