Aghlabids, a clan of the Arab tribe of Tamīm which ruled Tunisia from 184–296/800–909. The name of Banū Aghlab is derived from that of al-Aghlab b. Sālim al-Marwarrūdhī, the father of the founder of the clan, Ibrāhīm (al-Balādhurī, 326; Ibn al-Dawādārī, 23; al-Marrākushī, 355).

In some sources the early history of al-Aghlab himself is recorded in a rather chaotic manner. He was associated with Abū Muslim al-Khurāsānī in his missionary activity for…