Kalfun

Kalfun was the first Emir of Bari during the Arab control of that Apulian city.

Kalfun came from the Aghlabid emirate in North Africa. He was a former servant, and maybe even had once been a slave.

In 847 he lead Arab forces that captured the formerly Byzantine city of Bari, and he set himself up as the emir in that city.

ee also

* History of Islam in southern Italy

References

* Kreutz, Barbara M. "Before the Normans: Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries". Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. p. 38