Midrarid dynasty

Emirate of Sijilmasa Banu Midrar
757–976
Emirate of Sijilmassa (green)
Capital	Sijilmasa
Common languages	Berber
Religion	Sufri Islam
Government	Monarchy
King
• 757–772
• 963–976
Historical era	Middle Ages
• Established	757
• Disestablished	976
Currency	Midrar
Preceded by Succeeded by Umayyad Caliphate Almoravid dynasty

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Midrarid dynasty (Arabic: بنو مدرار) (also Banu Midrar or Midrarids) was a Berber dynasty that ruled the Tafilalt region in Morocco. It was established by the Berber Miknasi leader Abul-Qasim Samku.^[1] The source for which details of his reign are told by Al–Bakri who lived in the following century; Ibn Idhari also mentions him, but he lived in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and Ibn Khaldun (the fourteenth century) and some other minor historians, including at least two contemporary but partial sources.

Foundation[]

The dynasty would have been more or less linked to the founding of the city of Sijilmasa. According to the tradition collected by Al Bakri, the leader of Miknasa Abu Kasim Semgu son of Wasul Miknasi adopted the Kharijite doctrines propagated by Íkrima; and when he had 40 followers he began construction of Sijilmasa city in 757. The head of the community was a black man named Isa ibn Yazid for 15 years, but his government did not satisfy the Berbers, then Abu Khattab told his friends in Isa's council "all the blacks are thieves including him" (referring to Isa), then they took Isa and tied him to a tree in top of a mountain and left him alone until he died by mosquitoes in 772, the mountain was named mountain of Isa until this day. Later Midrar was ruled by the same Abu Kasim Semgu who ruled 13 years and died in 785.^[2]

List of kings[]

Wasulis[]

• 772–785
• 785–790
• 790–823 / 824

Midrars[]

• , known as Muntasir (victorious), 823 / 824–867
• , 867
• , 867
• , 867 (second time)
• , 867–877 (second time)
• , 877–883
• , 883–909
• , 909–913
• , 913–921
• , 921–933 / 934
• , 933 / 934–942 / 943
• , 942/943
• Muhammad ibn Wasul 942 / 943–958
• (Muntasir Billah), 958–963
• , 963–976

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