- ibn Ibrahim,
known as Ibn al-
Thumna (Arabic: محمد بن إبراهيم، ﺍﺑﻦ ﺍﻟﺜمنـة, romanized: Muhammad ibn
Ibrahim Ibn al-
Thumna), was an Arab
military leader...
- Ibn
Thumna had
collaborated closely with the Normans, each
using the
other to
further their goal of
ruling the
entire island, and
though Ibn
Thumna's death...
- Ibn al-
Thumna, Qāʾid of
Syracuse and
Catania via his
sister Maymūna, but came into
conflict with him.
Following this conflict, Ibn al-
Thumna attempted...
-
found the
excuse to
invade Sicily after the
request for help from Ibn al-
Thumna, emir of Catania, who was at war with his brother-in-law, Ibn al-Hawwas...
- the
Norman armies,
aided and
abetted by the
Sicilian Arab
warlord Ibn al-
Thumna,
disembarked at
Messina and
moved westward to Palermo. When the city fell...
- (eastern Sicily).
After conquering western Sicily in 1053, emir Ibn al-
Thumna [it; scn] of
Syracuse struggled to
defeat his brother-in-law Ibn Hawwas [it;...
