Haroun al Rashid appointed Ibn-al-Aghlab as governor of Ifriqiyya (mainly in Tunisia). From their capital in Kairaouan, they dominated the mid-Mediterranean. Officially under the rule of the Abbasid Caliphate, but in reality Abbasid power stopped at the border of Egypt.
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- The Aghlabids Part of a substantial article on Islamic history, dealing with the Aghlabids; originally faithful Abbasid governors of Tunisia, who gradually drifted out of central control. Their greatest independent project was the conquest of Sicily.