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رجار صاحب صقلية

رجار صاحب صقلية

c. 1153 CE · 548 AH

Lord of Sicily (Roger II); his fleets took Mahdiyya in 543 under George of Antioch and he imposed the jarī tax on the coastal towns until Abd al-Mu'min the Almohad recovered them 1.

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Roles
Ruler
Era
Abbasid Fragmentation
Region
al-Andalus & Europe
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Life in time

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Mughith al-Harbi · Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abd al-Qadir al-Rahawi · Abd al-Razzaq ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abd al-Wahhab al-Shirazi

Overview

Roger, lord of Sicily, a contemporary of the state of al-Mu'izz ibn Badis and his son, as Ibn Khaldun mentions 2.

Mahdiyya

His fleets came down on Mahdiyya in 543 AH with three hundred ships, commanded by Jirjis ibn Mikha'il al-Antaki. He took the whole coastal region and imposed on its people the tax called "al-jari" 2.

The situation remained so until 'Abd al-Mu'min, shaykh of the Muwahhidun, rescued them 2.

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Participated in
Roger of Sicily Seizes Mahdiyya· The Franks Take Tripoli of the Maghreb in 541· The Tripoli Uprising against the Christians and Their Burning

People and things also explored

Tripoli (al-Gharb)· Abu Yahya ibn Matruh· al-Hasan ibn Ali, last of the Banu Badis· جرجي بن ميخائيل الأنطاكي· Roger of Sicily Seizes Mahdiyya· The Franks Take Tripoli of the Maghreb in 541· The Tripoli Uprising against the Christians and Their Burning

Sources

  1. Kitab al-Ibar of Ibn Khaldun , p. 1635-1636
  2. Kitab al-Ibar of Ibn Khaldun , p.1635-1636
  • Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
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Tripoli (al-Gharb)

A fortified city with a wall of white stone, handsome streets and well-made markets, with olives, figs, palms and many fruits; al-Idrisi says King Roger took it, and it is now under his rule.