ʿAruj

…encouraged Khiḍr and his brother ʿArūj to intensify their piracy. They hoped, with the aid of Turks and Muslim emigrants from Spain, to wrest an African domain for themselves and had begun to succeed in that design when ʿArūj was killed by the Spanish in 1518. Khiḍr, who had been…

…exploits of two Muslim privateers, ʿArūj and his brother Khayr al-Dīn Barbarossa, who occupied Algiers in 1516 and made it a base for operations against the Spaniards. After ʿArūj was killed in 1518 in an attack on Tlemcen, Khayr al-Dīn offered submission to the Ottoman sultan in return for military…