Ahmad ibn al-Hasan al-Kalbi

Ahmad or Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Kalbi (Arabic: محمد بن الحسن الكلبي‎) was the second Kalbid Emir of Sicily. He was the son of the first Kalbid emir, al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Kalbi, who ruled the island on behalf of the Fatimid Caliphate. Ahmad succeeded his father in May 953 until 968, apart from a brief interruption in 958/9. In the 960s, he led the completion of the Muslim conquest of Sicily by capturing the last Byzantine strongholds of Taormina and Rometta and defeating a Byzantine relief expedition. He was recalled to Ifriqiya to participate in the upcoming Fatimid conquest of Egypt, and died there shortly after.[1]

References
  1. PmbZ, Aḥmad b. al-Ḥasan b. ʻAlī al-Kalbī (#20188).

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Preceded by
al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Kalbi		 Kalbid emir of Sicily
(for the Fatimid Caliphate)
954–969		 Succeeded by
Ya'ish
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