Abu Iqal al-Aghlab ibn Ibrahim () was the fourth

Aghlabid The Aghlabids ( ar, الأغالبة) were an Arab dynasty of emirs from the Najdi tribe of Banu Tamim, who ruled Ifriqiya and parts of Southern Italy, Sicily, and possibly Sardinia, nominally on behalf of the Abbasid Caliph, for about a cen ...

emir of

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

, ruling from 838 to his death in February 841. He was renowned for his erudition and intelligence, and his capable administration. He was succeeded by his son Muhammad I.

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* {{s-end 841 deaths Aghlabid emirs of Ifriqiya