المسلمون في جنوب إيطاليا خلال القرن التاسع

Abstract EN

This study aims to introduce the most important Muslim victories on the island of Sicily after the death of Emperor Theophil in January 842 AD, and the instability that followed, which encouraged the Aghlabids to persist in their anti-Byzantine policy, and to extend the jihad movement to their lands, especially when the Aghlabids felt the solidity of their position in Palermo.

Then they started planning other goals.

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The conquest of southern Italy by the Muslims lacked a specific strategy for the permanent conquest by the “Aghlabid state”, which opened the way for adventurers, which negatively affected its stability and facilitated alliance movements and contact between the Byzantines and Carolingians on the one hand, and the Aghlabids and the adventurers of Andalusia on the one hand.

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