The operations of the Islamic conquest of the Maghreb - which was then subject to the Byzantine occupation - began during the era of the Rashidun caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab, when he entrusted the task of carrying it out to his ruler over Egypt, Amr ibn al-Aas. And during the reign of Caliph Othman bin Affan, the Islamic conquests reached Ifriqiya or the Near Maghreb after the defeat of the Byzantines in the Battle of Sbeitla in the year 27 AH / 648 AD.