Aghlabid noun2 •[before a noun] Attributive form of Aghlabids; the dynasty of the Aghlabids.The Aghlabid state comprised the area to which the wilaya of Ifriqiya had been reduced after 761, namely Tunisia, eastern Algeria, and Tripolitania. — 1987 •(historical) Any member of an Arab dynasty of emirs who ruled Ifriqiya and parts of Southern Italy, nominally on behalf of the Abbasid Caliph, from 800–909 CE.In the rest of their dominions the Aghlabids could exercise only indirect and in some areas even nominal control. — 1987 formsAghlabids