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EARLY MUSLIM NORTH AFRICA & SICILY 696 AD - 1160 AD
This list covers the resident armies of the Umayyads, then of the Abbasids, then after revolt against the Abbasids in 800, the Aghlabids of Tunisia until they were replaced by the Fatimids in 909, the Idrisids of Morocco until conquered by the Umayyads of Spain in 926, the Fatimids until they conquered Egypt in 972, then Maghrawanids in Morocco and Zirids in Tunisia until 1160. Sicily was seized in 827, but progressively lost 1063-1091. Armies were a combination of coastal and city- dwelling Arabs with Berber converts from the hinterland and slave troops brought across the Sahara. References: Armies of the Dark Ages 1. Heath, Armies of Feudal Europe 1. Heath.