Banu Thabit, chiefs of Tripoli
بنو ثابت رؤساء طرابلس
Banu Thabit, the Arab chiefs of the city of Tripoli and its districts; when the Hilali Arabs took the Ifriqiyan lands and wrested Tripoli from the Zanata Khazrunids, its chieftaincy settled on this house, which held the ra'asa over town and suburbs in obedience to whatever Maghreb state — Almohad or Hafsid — held sway, into Ibn Khaldun's own time.
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- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Maghreb
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Banu Thabit, the chiefs of the city of Tripoli and its districts, who were Arabs. Ibn Khaldun says that the Hilali Arabs took the districts of Ifriqiya and overcame the Zanata in Tripoli, so its leadership passed to Banu Thabit. They continued in leadership of the city and its outskirts, under the authority of whichever Maghribi dynasties ruled, the Almohads and the Hafsids, until the time of Ibn Khaldun. 1
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Sources
- Kitab al-Ibar of Ibn Khaldun
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