ملمح تاريخي لمدينة القيروان من خلال نصوص كتاب "الكامل في التاريخ" لعز الدين بن الأثير (ت 630 ه 1232 م)‎

Abstract EN

Among the leading historians of the East who contributed to writing the history of the Islamic Maghreb, the historian Ezzedine Ibn Al-Atheer (555-630 AH / 1161-1234 AD), the latter worked on introducing some Islamic cities in terms of their founding and historical development through his book Al-Kamil fi Al-Tareekh, Based on this book, we dealt with the history of the city of Kairouan - the first Islamic city to be built in Africa - through the subject of this article titled “A Historical Profile of the City of Kairouan through the texts of“Al-Kamil fi Al-Tareekh ”.

The research is based on two main axes.

We divided it into three components, the first deals with the geopolitical factors and conditions that affected the conquest in Africa between 22-50 AH / 643-670AD, the second dealing with the defensive strategic factor that the leader Uqba bin Nafi guided to.

The third dealt with the aspects of the reconstruction of the city of Kairouan in Sadr.

The conquest between 50-55 AH / 670-675 CE, and the mosque emerged in it as a new, religious and civil urban institution, while the second axis dealt with the roles of historical development that the city of Kairouan went through, whether during the stages of the Islamic conquest or in later historical periods, we devoted the first phase: for a period The rule of the walis (50-184 AH / 670-800AD) during the era of the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates, when the city of Kairouan became a base for completing the conquest, and a scene of conflict and rebellions by Berbers and Kharijites.

The second round: the era of the Emirate Aghlabid (184-296 AH / 800-908AD) The city of Kairouan knew its golden age in terms of development and prosperity in various fields: political, urban, and military.

The Aghlabids possessed a powerful fleet and conquered the island of Sicily of the Byzantine Empire.

The city of Kairouan, in its pivotal role, represented a unique temporal and geographic melting pot.

From the depths of the heart of this city the word Islam was preached militarily, politically and culturally in the countries of the Greater Islamic Maghreb.