- The
Miknasa (Berber: Imeknasen) was a
Zenata Berber tribe of the Maghreb. The
Miknasa Berbers historically po****ted the Aurès and are part of the Dharisa...
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Idrisids were
ousted in 927 by the
Fatimid Caliphate and
their Miknasa allies.
After Miknasa broke off
relations with the
Fatimids in 932, they were removed...
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first settled by
Miknasa tribesmen, who gave it its name:
Miknasa Taza,
similar to
Miknasa al-Zeitoun (present-day Meknes,
another Miknasa settlement). The...
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hoping to
expand their influence, and used the
Miknasa as
proxies and
allies in the region. In 917 the
Miknasa and its
leader Masala ibn Habus,
acting on...
- an-Nasr in
northern Morocco,
where the
Miknasa besieged them. Soon after, however,
civil war
broke out
among the
Miknasa when Musa
switched allegiance to the...
- 909, had to be
retaken by the
Fatimid general Masala ibn
Habus of the
Miknasa tribe. The
first Fatimid expeditions to what is now
northern Morocco occurred...
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Bargawata Berber confederation in
Morocco in the 770s.: 169 In 768, a
Miknasa Berber named Shaqya ibn Abd al-Walid
declared himself a
Fatimid imam, claiming...
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divergent points of view. The Barghawatas,
along with the
Ghomara and the
Miknasa,
launched the
Berber Revolt of 739 or 740. They were
fired up by Sufri...
- Fez in
Morocco had been
contested between the
Zenata Berber tribes of
Miknasa,
Maghrawa and Banu
Ifran for the
previous half century, in the aftermath...
- a
number of tribes,
being first captured by M****ala ibn
Habbus of the
Miknasas in the year 911, in
alliance with the
Fatimid Caliphate. Finally, in 933...
