Aghlabid

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.
   • In the rest of their dominions the Aghlabids could exercise only indirect and in some areas even nominal control.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
   • A failure to overcome critical internal divisions, however, weakened the Aghlabids and led to their collapse before the Fatimid army of Kutama Berbers.2006, Jonathan David Wyrtzen, “Aghlabids”, in Josef W. Meri, editor, Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, Volume 1, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 19