Leo of Tripoli

Leo of Tripoli

Leo of Tripoli was a Greek pirate serving Arab interests in the early tenth century. Born in Greece to Christian parents, he later converted to Islam and took employment with his former captors as an admiral.

His first Arabic name was "Ġulām Zurāfa", meaning "slave of Zurafa." He later took the name "Rašiq al-Wardāmī", probably from the Greek "Mardaïtes", meaning "from Attaleia."

On 31 July 904, Leo sacked Antâliya, either Attaleia or Salonika; an event ostensibly recorded by John Kaminiates. In 907, gathering a fleet from Tarsus and Laodicea, he sailed up the Dardanelles and assaulted the capital of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople. In May 912, Leo and his fellow Saracen pirate Damian of Tyre defeated Himerios, the logothete of the Drome, in retaliation for an attack on some Cypriot Arabs. Finally, in 924, the imperial navy annihilated Leo's fleet off Lemnos.

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