Thābit ibn Muḥammad

Thābit ibn Muḥammad was a ruler of the Banū Thābit, the dynasty that governed fourteenth-century Tripoli. An Arabic account names him its first ruler after the townspeople expelled the Ḥafṣid governor in 1323.

The Banū Thābit continued to recognize Ḥafṣid suzerainty while acting as autonomous lords over Tripolitania, with power stretching from Tripoli toward Gabès and the Nafusa Mountains. In 1354–1355 the Genoese seized Tripoli, and Thābit died in 1355.