Abu al-Abbas Abdallah I ibn Ibrahim I ibn al-Aghlabi () was the second

Aghlabid The Aghlabid dynasty () was an Arab dynasty centered in Ifriqiya (roughly present-day Tunisia) from 800 to 909 that conquered parts of Sicily, Southern Italy, and possibly Sardinia, nominally as vassals of the Abbasid Caliphate. The Aghlabids ...

emir of

Ifriqiya Ifriqiya ( '), also known as al-Maghrib al-Adna (), was a medieval historical region comprising today's Tunisia, eastern Algeria, and Tripolitania (roughly western Libya). It included all of what had previously been the Byzantine province of ...

, ruling from October/November 812 to his death on 25 June 817. He was known for his beauty, but also for his arbitrary rule, as he introduced a tax on crops in cash, instead of the usual

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in kind. This tax was contrary to

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and aroused much opposition. When Abdallah died shortly after, it was widely considered as a divine punishment. He was succeeded by his brother Ziyadat Allah I.

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* {{Aghlabid dynasty topics, state=expanded 8th-century births 817 deaths Aghlabid emirs of Ifriqiya