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BarbarossaNickname ‘red beard’ given to the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, and also to two brothers, Horuk and Khair-ed-Din, who were Barbary pirates. Horuk was killed by the Spaniards in 1518; Khair-ed-Din took Tunis in 1534 and died in Constantinople in 1546. Barbarossa
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Among the newer scholars who stoked his wrath were Khayr al-Din al-Ramli and Ibn Hajr al-Haythami; al-Muhibbi, Khulasat, 4: 170. When Khayr al-Din al-Tunsi, an enlightened and public-spirited official was in a position to introduce major reforms in the 1870s, he modernized the curriculum of the Zaituna Mosque-University and established a new secondary school, Sadiqi College, modeled after the French lycee. |
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