غلبة المهدي العبيدي على المغرب وخروجه من أمر بني العباس

غلبة المهدي العبيدي على المغرب وخروجه من أمر بني العباس

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Under al-Muqtadir the Mahdi's cause prevailed in the Maghreb: he was saluted as imam and caliph, built al-Mahdiyya, and the Aghlabid amir Ziyadat Allah fled to Egypt then Iraq — 'from this date the Maghreb left the Abbasids' command', after a hundred and sixty-odd years of their rule over all the Islamic realms. The Mahdi marched on Egypt with forty thousand Berbers; the Nile barred him, so he took Alexandria and the Fayyum, while his son al-Qa'im later seized most of Upper Egypt and the Fustat quarter ¹.