Abdullah II Abu l-Abbas (d. 27 July 903) was the tenth Emir

Emir

Emir , meaning "commander", "general", or "prince"; also transliterated as Amir, Aamir or Ameer) is a title of high office, used throughout the Muslim world...

 of the Aghlabids in Ifriqiya

Ifriqiya

In medieval history, Ifriqiya or Ifriqiyah was the area comprising the coastal regions of what are today western Libya, Tunisia, and eastern Algeria. This area included what had been the Roman province of Africa, whose name it inherited....

 (902-903)

He took over the Emirate after his father Abu Ishaq Ibrahim II

Ibrahim II of Aghlabids

Abu Is`haq Ibrahim II was the ninth Emir of the Aghlabids in Ifriqiya He succeeded to the Emirate on the death of his brother Muhammad II . Although he inherited a kingdom depopulated by the plague of 874, his reign was economically prosperous...

 was forced to abdicate after a tyrannical rule. He immediately set about trying to reduce the autonomy of the Kutama

Kutama

The Kutama were a powerful Berber tribe, in the region of Jijel , a member of the great Sanhaja confederation of the Maghrib and the armed body of the Fatimid Caliphate.-Origins of the Kutama:...

 Berbers

Berber people

Berbers are the indigenous peoples of North Africa west of the Nile Valley. They are continuously distributed from the Atlantic to the Siwa oasis, in Egypt, and from the Mediterranean to the Niger River. Historically they spoke the Berber language or varieties of it, which together form a branch...

 in order to stop the Ismailite mission of Abu 'Abdullah al-Shi'i, however without success. An effort to replace the Malikite law schools with Hanifites from Iraq

Iraq

Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

 also failed. Abdullah was murdered by his son Abu Muda Ziyadat Allah

Ziyadat Allah III of Aghlabids

Abu Mudhar Ziyadat Allah III was the eleventh and last Emir of the Aghlabids in Ifriqiya He came to power after the murder of his father Abdullah II in 903. He immediately had all his brothers and uncles executed to eliminate any possible rivals...

in 903.