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The Magrawa were a Berber
Berber people

Berbers are the indigenous ethnic groups of North Africa west of the Nile Valley. They are discontinuously distributed from the Atlantic to the Siwa oasis, in Egypt, and from the Mediterranean to the Niger River....
 tribe in Morocco and central and western Algeria
Algeria

Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country located in North Africa. It is the largest country of the Mediterranean sea, second largest in the Arab World, and the second largest on the African continent and the eleventh-largest country in the world in terms of land area....
.

History
The Magrawa, a tribe of Zanata Berbers, were one of the first Berber tribes to submit to Islam
Islam

Islam is a Monotheism, Abrahamic religion originating with the teachings of the Prophets of Islam Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure....
 in the 7th century. They supported Uqba ibn Nafi
Uqba ibn Nafi

Uqba ibn Nafi was an Arab general under the Umayyad dynasty, who began the Islamic conquest of the Maghreb, including present-day western Algeria and Morocco in North Africa....
 in his campaign to the Atlantic in 683. They were Kharijites
Kharijites

Kharijites is a general term embracing various Muslims who, while initially supporting the caliphate of the fourth and final "Rightly Guided" caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib, later rejected him....
 from the 8th century, and allied first with the Idrisid
Idrisid

The Idrisids were Arab Shia dynasty in the western Maghreb ruling from 788 to 985, named after its first sultan, Idriss I....
s, and, from the 10th century, with the Umayyads of Córdoba.






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The Magrawa were a Berber
Berber people

Berbers are the indigenous ethnic groups of North Africa west of the Nile Valley. They are discontinuously distributed from the Atlantic to the Siwa oasis, in Egypt, and from the Mediterranean to the Niger River....
 tribe in Morocco and central and western Algeria
Algeria

Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country located in North Africa. It is the largest country of the Mediterranean sea, second largest in the Arab World, and the second largest on the African continent and the eleventh-largest country in the world in terms of land area....
.

History


The Magrawa, a tribe of Zanata Berbers, were one of the first Berber tribes to submit to Islam
Islam

Islam is a Monotheism, Abrahamic religion originating with the teachings of the Prophets of Islam Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure....
 in the 7th century. They supported Uqba ibn Nafi
Uqba ibn Nafi

Uqba ibn Nafi was an Arab general under the Umayyad dynasty, who began the Islamic conquest of the Maghreb, including present-day western Algeria and Morocco in North Africa....
 in his campaign to the Atlantic in 683. They were Kharijites
Kharijites

Kharijites is a general term embracing various Muslims who, while initially supporting the caliphate of the fourth and final "Rightly Guided" caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib, later rejected him....
 from the 8th century, and allied first with the Idrisid
Idrisid

The Idrisids were Arab Shia dynasty in the western Maghreb ruling from 788 to 985, named after its first sultan, Idriss I....
s, and, from the 10th century, with the Umayyads of Córdoba. As a result they were caught up in the Umayyad-Fatimid
Fatimid

The Fatimid Caliphate or al-Fatimiyyun was an Arab Shi'a dynasty that ruled over varying areas of the Maghreb, Egypt, Sicily, Malta and the Levant from 5 January 909 to 1171....
 conflict in Morocco
Morocco

Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa with a population of nearly 34 million and an area just under 447,000 km2....
. Although they won a victory over the allies of the Fatimids in 924, they soon became allied with them themselves. When they switched back to the side of Córdoba, they were driven out of central Morocco by the Zirids, who ruled on behalf of the Fatimids. In 980, however, they were able to drive the Miknasa
Miknasa

The Miknasa were a Berber people tribe in Morocco and western Algeria.The Miknasa Berbers originated in Tripolitania and southern Tunisia, but migrated westwards into central Morocco and western Algeria in pre-Islamic times....
 out of Sijilmasa
Sijilmasa

Sijilmasa was a mediaeval trade centre in the western Maghreb. The ruins of the city lie in the Tafilalt oasis near the modern small town of Rissani in southeastern Morocco....
.

Under Ziri ibn Atiyya
Ziri ibn Atiyya

Ziri ibn 'Atiyya ibn Abd Allah ibn Tabadalt ibn Muhammad ibn Khazar az-Zanati al-Maghrawi al-Khazari , first Maghrawa ruler of the Kingdom of Fes and other parts of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia....
 (to 1001) the Magrawa achieved supremacy in Fez under Umayyad suzerainty and expanded their territory at the expense of the Banu Ifran
Banu Ifran

Banu Ifran or Ifren or Ifrenid , a Berber people tribe, prominent in the history of pre-islamic and early islamic North Africa.Tlemcen in present-day Algeria was a capital of the Kingdom of Banu Ifran ....
. A revolt against the Andalusian Umayyads was put down by Al-Mansur (Abi Amir), although the Magrawa were able to regain power in Fez. Under the succeeding rulers al-Muizz (1001-1026), Hamman (1026-1039) and Dunas (1039) they consolidated their rule in northern and central Morocco. However, internal power struggles after 1060 enabled the Almoravids
Almoravids

The Almoravids were a Berbers dynasty from the Sahara that spread over a wide area of North Africa and the Iberian peninsula during the 11th century....
 to conquer them in 1070 and put an end to their rule.

Dynasty


Dynasty of Maghrawa tribe

  • Mohamed Ibn Al Khayr 970.
  • Attia 986 - 988.
    • Ziri Ibn Attia 989 - 1001.
      • El Moez Ibn Attia 1001 - 1026.
        • Hammama Ibn El Moez 1026 - 1033 and 1038 - 1040.
            • Abou Attaf Donas Ibn Hamama 1040 - 1059.
              • Fotoh Ibn Donas 1059 - 1062.
                • Ajissa Ibn Donas 1059 - 1061.
                  • Muanneser 1065.
                    • Temim de 1067 - 1068.