Source: Tarikh Ifriqiya wal-Maghrib by al-Raqiq al-Qayrawani
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Abu Iqal al-Aghlab ibn Ibrahim
أبو عقال الأغلب بن إبراهيم
(Known as "Abu Iqal")
Fourth Aghlabid Emir of Ifriqiya, Jurist, Patron of Science
Born
c. 790 AD
Kairouan, Tunisia
Kairouan, Tunisia
Passed Away
February 841 AD
Kairouan, Tunisia
Lifespan
~51 years old
"Water brought to the parched earth is a sovereign's greatest prayer."
Archival Overview
Fourth Aghlabid Emir (838–841 AD), renowned for personal piety, legal erudition, and generous patronization of scholars, doctors, and hydraulic engineers in Kairouan.
Biographical Record
Abu Iqal al-Aghlab was an accomplished legal scholar in his own right before ascending the throne of Ifriqiya following his brother Ziyadat Allah I. His reign was celebrated by chroniclers as a period of domestic peace, tax relief for peasants, and moral propriety.
He banned public drunkenness, patronized the physicians of Kairouan, and constructed extensive cisterns and underground water channels across central Tunisia, ensuring that agricultural production boomed.
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Final Resting Place
Perpetual Memorial
Quraysh Cemetery
Kairouan, Tunisia
Kairouan, Tunisia
GPS: 35.6782, 10.1012
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