Chapter 51
Autumn 1062 (454 from Hegira). Tragina
Not only Roger, Corrado and the Sicilian Christians feared the return of ibn Badīs, lord of the Ifrīqiya, but also many Saracen qā'id, who knew that that aid in the war for the faith would have paid for it with their dethronement and even with the life. However, everyone's fears disappeared when the news came that the long reign of the Emir of Africa had come to an end with his death. This gave a further advantage to the Norman advance, although other lords, more determined than the first, stood as champions of a holy war destined to last for a long time. Salah, the one who had exterminated the house of Abbād, was one of those who could have given a hard time conquering the cadets of Hauteville. On the contrary, Ali ibn al-Ḥawwās, the one
