Philip of Mahdia, a North African of berber origin, was the emir of Palermo, and successor of the great George of Antioch. He was a eunuch who rose through the ranks of the royal curia in Palermo until he was eventually one of King Roger II's most trusted men.

North African–born official of the Sicilian court, was from Mahdiyya, an important port on the eastern coast of Tunisia, and was a eunuch and slave and high functionary in the Sicilian court of the Norman king Roger II (1095–1154).

Philip of Mahdia, of Greek origin, was the emir of Palermo, the second "ammiratus ammiratorum", and successor of the great George of Antioch. He was a eunuch who rose through the ranks of the royal " curia " in Palermo until he was eventually one of King Roger II 's most trusted men.

After the Almohads took the city of Bougie, upon which Roger may have had designs, in 1152, a fleet under Philip of Mahdia was sent to conquer Bône. According to Ibn al-Athīr, Philip was a secret Muslim who treated the inhabitants of Bône gently.

2019年12月18日 · Samuel B. Naghrilla, a self-proclaimed Jewish messiah, became the force behind Muslim Granada. Bahram Pahlavuni, an Armenian Christian, wielded power in an Islamic caliphate. And Philip of Mahdia, a Muslim eunuch, rose to admiral in the service of Roger II, the Christian "King of Africa."

Philip of Mahdia, of Greek origin, was the emir of Palermo, and successor of the great George of Antioch. He was a eunuch who rose through the ranks of the royal curia in Palermo until he was eventually one of King Roger II's most trusted men.

Philip of Mahdia, a North African of Greek origin, was the emir of Palermo, and successor of the great George of Antioch. He was a eunuch who rose through the ranks of the royal curia in Palermo until he was eventually one of King Roger II's most trusted men.

2017年1月12日 · Birk examines the mid-twelfth-century trial of Philip of Mahdiyya in detail, using two sources, one Arabic, the other Latin, which historians have used to illustrate a growing hostility toward Islam within the Sicilian court. Birk demonstrates that the texts reveal...

Philip of Mahdia, of Greek origin, was the emir of Palermo, and successor of the great George of Antioch. He was a eunuch who rose through the ranks of the royal curia in Palermo until he was eventually one of King Roger II's most trusted men.

2016年1月1日 · He argues that thirteenth-century writers recounting the trial of Philip of Mahdiyya wrestled with the potential anxiety caused by what they perceived as the culturally and religiously ambiguous...