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of the island. Ibn Hamdis was about five years old when the Norman armies, aided and abetted by the Sicilian Arab warlord Ibn al-Thumna, disembarked at
Sicily after the request for help from Ibn al-Thumna, emir of Catania, who was at war with his brother-in-law, Ibn al-Hawwas, emir of Agrigento. In May 1061
conquering western Sicily in 1053, emir Ibn al-Thumna [it; scn] of Syracuse struggled to defeat his brother-in-law Ibn Hawwas [it; scn], the emir of Enna in
power. Ibn Thumna killed Ibn al-Maklatí, took Catania and married the dead qadi's widow who was the sister of Ibn al-Hawwàs. He also took ibn Mankut's