EGYPT, AND SYRIA. 
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SECT. I. 
Dynqfty of the Aglahites. 
A. D. 800. It was under the reign of the famous Haron-el- 
Rafhid, that Ibrahim ben-el- Aghleb, governor of Africa, finally 
threw off the yoke of the Chalif of Damafcus. Ibrahim fecured 
his authority by maintaining a regular body of troops ; and 
died in 811, being fucceeded by his fon Abu-'l-abbas. 
Ziadet-Ullah, his fuccefTor, fubdued Sicily. 
•/ 837. Abu Akkal afcended the throne of Africa. 
.840. The next prince, Abu-'l-abbas, reigned thirty-four 
years ; humane, liberal, and a lover of juftice. He was 
however too much addicted to the pleafures of the table ; and 
it is related, that one day being in a ftate of intoxication in the 
town of Sut, he embarked for the ifle of KulFa, and when the 
fumes of the wine had evaporated, was not a little furprifed to 
find himfelf in the open fea. 
874. Abu-'l-Abbas had obtained of his brother Ifhak an 
open renunciation, in the chief mofque of Cairoan, of all 
claim to the crown ; yet that prince feized it on his death, to 
the prejudice of the former's fon. Ifliak built a new town, 
called Rifade. 
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