ملك علي بن غانية بلاد إفريقية

In 581 AH Ali ibn Ishaq al-Mulaththam ibn Ghaniya went to Ifriqiya and took most of it, according to Ibn al-Athir. ¹

The Sulaym and Riyah and the Arabs there gathered to him, and the Turks who had come from Egypt with Sharaf al-Din Qaraqush joined them. They titled him Amir of the Muslims. They took Ifriqiya east and west except Tunis and al-Mahdiyya, where the Almohads remained in fear and distress. ¹

Ibn al-Athir says that they ruined the lands, fortresses and villages, and cut down trees. They made for the island of Bashra near Tunis, whose people were given safe conduct, and then the army plundered their goods. Many of the weak died of the winter cold and of plague, and the dead were counted in one place as twelve thousand. ¹

Al-Mulaththam ended the Friday sermon for the sons of Abd al-Mu'min, and gave the sermon for the Abbasid caliph al-Nasir li-Din Allah. He sent to him asking for the robe of investiture and the black banners. ¹