Ifriqiya, medieval empires of (Aghlabid to Hafsid)

Contenu

Titre

Ifriqiya, medieval empires of (Aghlabid to Hafsid)

Créateur

Amara, Allaoua Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Date

2016

Dans

The Encyclopedia of Empire Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Résumé

The Byzantine province of “Africa” was conquered by Arab forces in the early wave of Islamic expansion from the east, and became the Umayyad province of Ifriqiya in 703 ce. Although united in Islam, the history of Ifriqiya is one of constant religious schism and rivalry as well as marked cultural and ethnic divisions between the immigrant Arab and indigenous Berber populations and others, as well as distinct differences between the population, outlook, and economy of the coastal cities and the interior. In the turbulent world of medieval Ifriqiya the Aghlabids, viceroys from 800, acted as sub-imperial agents of the Abbasid caliphs in Baghdad. They were supplanted by the imperial-minded Shia Fatimids whose ambitions for the caliphate saw them rise to the domination of all Islamic lands, before the native Zirid dynasty of Sanhaja Berbers assumed power over Ifriqiya. Further fragmentation saw a temporary conquest by the Almohads of the western Maghreb before the Hafsids re-established a late flourishing of the empire of Ifriqiya which dissolved in the 16th century.

Editeur

American Cancer Society Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Langue

eng

pages

1-13

ISBN

978-1-118-45507-4

Amara, Allaoua, “Ifriqiya, medieval empires of (Aghlabid to Hafsid)”, American Cancer Society, 2016, bibliographie, consulté le 15 janvier 2025, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/7788