Thabit ibn Ammar

Thabit ibn Ammar was the shaykh of the Banu Ammar, also called the Banu Thabit. The clan gave fourteenth-century Tripoli its ruling dynasty.

The chronicler Ibn Khaldun records that in 1326–1327 a group killed the Hafsid governor Muhammad ibn Abi Imran and installed Thabit's son Muhammad over Tripoli. Muhammad governed the city independently for nearly twenty years, with Hafsid authority greatly diminished.