Abu Hafs Umar al-Iqritishi

The Andalusis ("the Arabs of Iberia") address their leader Apochaps, miniature from the Madrid Skylitzes manuscript

Umar ibn Hafs ibn Shuayb ibn Isa al-Balluti (died 855)[a] was the leader of a group of Andalusi refugees who seized control of Alexandria and, after being expelled from the city by the Abbasids, conquered the Byzantine island of Crete, becoming the first Emir of Crete.

  1. ^ Hitti 1916, p. 376.


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