Abu al-Qasim al-Kalbi

Abu al-Qasim al-Kalbi, the amir of Sicily on behalf of the Fatimids. Ibn al-Athir relates that in 366 AH he ordered the rebuilding of Ramtala, which had been ruined, and resumed the raids; he besieged the fortress of Aghata and the town of Tara'it, and destroyed it, and his raiding parties reached al-Raqqa and other places, and he camped at the city of Marlita and made peace with them for money. ²

He set out in 373 AH with the armies of the Muslims, accompanied by a group of the righteous and scholars, and besieged the city of Messina in Ramadan, and the enemy fled from it. Then he besieged Kasnita until its people asked for safety, and took money from them and moved to the fortress of Jalu, which he dealt with in the same way. He ordered his brother al-Qasim to take the fleet toward the area of Barbula, and sent his raiding parties into Calabria. ²