Yūsuf Buluggīn I ibn Zīrī

…as surrogate his lieutenant general Yusuf ibn Ziri. (The original North African dominion became a province called Al-Maghrib, “the West.”)

…of Cairo (972), to appoint Yūsuf Buluggīn I ibn Zīrī governor of al-Qayrawān and any other territory the Zīrids might reclaim from their enemies, the Zanātah tribesmen. The Zīrid state under Buluggīn accordingly expanded its boundaries westward as far as Sabtah (now Ceuta, a Spanish exclave in Morocco) on the…