The Aghlabids' Conquests in Sicily

فتوح الأغالبة في صقلية

صقلية

In al-Baladhuri: the house of al-Aghlab ibn Salim al-Ifriqi opened more than twenty cities of Sicily — in Muslim hands — and Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Aghlab opened of it in al-Mutawakkil's caliphate Qasr Yana and Hisn Ghalyana.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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al-Andalus & Europe · Maghreb
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أحمد بن محمد بن الأغلب
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The First Raid on Sicily and Abdallah ibn Qays's Plunder· أحمد بن محمد بن الأغلب· صقلية

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  • Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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The First Raid on Sicily and Abdallah ibn Qays's Plunder

In al-Baladhuri: Mu'awiya ibn Khudayj al-Kindi raided Sicily in Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan's days — the first to raid it — and it kept being raided thereafter. Al-Waqidi said: Abdallah ibn Qays ibn Mukhallad al-Dazzaqi plundered Sicily, taking gold and silver idols crowned with jewels which he sent to Mu'awiya, who forwarded them to Basra to be carried to India and sold there for their price.