{"slug": "kairouan", "label": "Kairouan", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairouan", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q179570", "qid": "Q179570", "description": "Tunisian town", "entries": 13, "years": 13, "span": [670, 1057], "span_label": ["670 CE", "1057 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 10}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "tunisia", "label": "Tunisia", "shared": 9}, {"slug": "ifriqiya", "label": "Ifriqiya", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "abbasid-caliphate", "label": "Abbasid Caliphate", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "berber-people", "label": "Berber people", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "zirid-dynasty", "label": "Zirid dynasty", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "tripoli-libya", "label": "Tripoli, Libya", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "egypt", "label": "Egypt", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "may", "label": "May", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "palermo", "label": "Palermo", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "arabs", "label": "Arabs", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "khawarij", "label": "Khawarij", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tlemcen", "label": "Tlemcen", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 670, "year_label": "670 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Muslim Conquest: A 10,000-man Arab army under the command of general Uqba ibn Nafi invades the Byzantine Exarchate of Africa. He establishes a military base at Kairouan (Tunisia) for further invasions, and founds the Great Mosque, also known as the \"Mosque of Uqba\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367634463#Arabian_Empire", "title": "670", "revid": 1367634463, "section": "Events › By place › Arabian Empire"}}, {"year": 742, "year_label": "742 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Great Berber Revolt: Muslim forces under Handhala ibn Safwan al-Kalbi, governor of Egypt, break out of besieged Kairouan (Tunisia). He scatters the Berbers, the western and central Maghreb remained under the control of the Berber Kharijites.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340809740#Africa", "title": "742", "revid": 1340809740, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 744, "year_label": "744 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Tunisian Coup: Following the death of the Umayyad caliph, Hisham, Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib assembles a small force in Tunis and declares himself emir of Ifriqiya. Handhala ibn Safwan al-Kalbi, wali of Ifriqiya decides against fighting and returns to Damascus. Abd al-Rahman installs himself in Kairouan, and crushes multiple revolts around the country.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1305046877#Africa", "title": "744", "revid": 1305046877, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 757, "year_label": "757 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Warfajuma Berbers and their Sufrite allies sweep up from southern Tunisia and capture Kairouan, killing Emir Habib Al-Fihri and putting an end to the Fihrid dynasty. In the meantime, the Ibadites that Ibn Habib had driven out of Tripoli return, rallied by their imam Abu al-Khattab al-Ma'afiri in Jebel Nefusa, the Ibadites recapture Tripoli.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341678247#Africa", "title": "AD 757", "revid": 1341678247, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 758, "year_label": "758 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "A group of four Basra-educated missionaries, including 'Abd al-Rahman Iban Rustam, proclaim the Ibadi imamate. Followers conquer the city of Kairouan (modern Tunisia), and massacre the Kharijites.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366654492#Africa", "title": "758", "revid": 1366654492, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 761, "year_label": "761 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "An Abbasid Caliphate army reconquers the city of Kairouan (in modern-day Tunisia), from 'Abd al-Rahmān ibn Rustam of the Rustamid dynasty. The latter is forced to flee west, where he creates an autonomous state around Tihert (Tiaret).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340847723#Abbasid_Caliphate", "title": "761", "revid": 1340847723, "section": "Events › By place › Abbasid Caliphate"}}, {"year": 767, "year_label": "767 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Kharijite Berbers of Tlemcen and Tiaret try to conquer Ifriqiya from the Abbasid Caliphate, but fail to capture the capital of Kairouan (modern Tunisia).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350246348#Africa", "title": "AD 767", "revid": 1350246348, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 830, "year_label": "830 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "The Ad-dimnah Hospital (bimaristan) is created in Kairouan (modern Tunisia), by the Aghlabid emir Ziyadat Allah I.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359310799#North_Africa", "title": "830", "revid": 1359310799, "section": "Events › By place › North Africa"}}, {"year": 860, "year_label": "860 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Lusterware tiles, that decorated the mihrab of the Mosque of Uqba at Kairouan (modern Tunisia), are made (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367666755#Art", "title": "860", "revid": 1367666755, "section": "Events › By topic › Art"}}, {"year": 892, "year_label": "892 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May", "text": "May – Ibrahim II, Aghlabid emir of Ifriqiya, sends a large army to Palermo, to impose Arab authority from Kairouan. After an uprising, the Sicilians make a bid for independence.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1346093317#Arabian_Empire", "title": "892", "revid": 1346093317, "section": "Events › By place › Arabian Empire"}}, {"year": 909, "year_label": "909 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Berber Kutama tribesmen under Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah capture the cities of Kairouan and Raqqada. The capital city of the Rustamid imamate, Tihert is destroyed. The remaining Ibadi are forced into the desert.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367656270#Africa", "title": "909", "revid": 1367656270, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1017, "year_label": "1017 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Sunnis of Kairouan (modern Tunisia) revolt against the Shi'ite Zirid dynasty. The city is quickly retaken and sacked.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342212758#Africa", "title": "1017", "revid": 1342212758, "section": "Events › Africa"}}, {"year": 1057, "year_label": "1057 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Banu Hilal razes Kairouan (in modern Tunisia). The Zirid dynasty has to re-settle to Mahdia (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1335991921#Africa", "title": "1057", "revid": 1335991921, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}]}