State

Emirate of Sicily

Islamic principality that ruled the island of Sicily from 948 to 1091

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827–1091 CE
Founded
827 CE
Ended
1091
Capital
Palermo

Overview

The island of Sicily (Arabic: صِقِلِّيَة, romanized: Ṣiqilliya) was under Islamic rule from the late ninth to the late eleventh centuries. It became a prosperous and influential commercial power in the Mediterranean, with its capital of Palermo (بَلَرْم, Balarm) serving as a major cultural and political center of the Muslim world.

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All rulers (15)

  1. Abdallah ibn Abbas ibn al-Fadl862 CE
  2. Al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Kalbi948–953 CE
  3. Ahmad ibn al-Hasan al-Muizziyya953–969 CE
  4. Ahmad ibn al-Hasan al-Kalbi954–969 CE
  5. Ya'is969 CE
  6. Ahmad ibn al-Hasan al-Muizziyya969–970 CE
  7. Abu al-Qasim970–982 CE
  8. Jabir ibn 'Ali982–983 CE
  9. Ja'far ibn Muhammad983–986 CE
  10. Jaʿfar al-Kalbī983–986 CE
  11. Abd Allah ibn Muhammad985–989 CE
  12. Yusuf al-Kalbi986–998 CE
  13. Abd Allah ibn Muhammad986 CE
  14. Yusuf al-Kalbi989–997 CE
  15. Jaʿfar II al-Kalbī998–1019 CE

Records (1)

  1. 1071 — Battle of PalermoBattle · Normans ▸ Kalbid Emirate

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