رجار صاحب صقلية

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Roger, lord of Sicily, a contemporary of the state of al-Mu'izz ibn Badis and his son, as Ibn Khaldun mentions ².

Mahdiyya

His fleets came down on Mahdiyya in 543 AH with three hundred ships, commanded by Jirjis ibn Mikha'il al-Antaki. He took the whole coastal region and imposed on its people the tax called "al-jari" ².

The situation remained so until 'Abd al-Mu'min, shaykh of the Muwahhidun, rescued them ².

Abu Yahya ibn Matruh

Abu Yahya ibn Matruh, a Tripoli notable; when Roger's Normans held the town he went among its leading men and drew them into striking the Franks, who were killed and burned — a daring horseman, he governed Tripoli thereafter, came in delegation to Abd al-Mu'min at Mahdiyya's fall in 555 and was confirmed over the town, until, grown old under Yusuf ibn Abd al-Mu'min, he asked leave for the hajj and sailed to settle at Alexandria in 586.

رجار صاحب صقلية

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Mahdiyya

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Abu Yahya ibn Matruh