- The
Sanhaja (Arabic: صنهاجة,
Ṣanhaja or زناگة Znaga;
Berber languages: Aẓnag, pl. Iẓnagen, and also Aẓnaj, pl. Iẓnajen) were once one of the
largest Berber...
- ("Senhaja of Srair") is a
Northern Berber language. It is
spoken by the
Sanhaja Berbers inhabiting the
central part of the
Moroccan Rif. It is
spoken in...
- Arabic : يحيى إبن عمر) was a
chieftain of the Lamtuna, a
tribe in the
Sanhaja confederation.
Yahya ibn Umar was the
second emir of the
Almoravids in...
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historically one of the
largest Berber confederations along with the
Sanhaja and Masmuda.
Their lifestyle was
either nomadic or semi-nomadic. The 14th-century...
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Norris describe "Bafur (Bafour)" as a
loose term encomp****ing the pre-
Sanhaja inhabitants of the region, who were "part Berber, part Negro, and part...
-
Sanhaja Berber tribes as well. The
historian Heinz Halm
describes the
early Fatimid state as being, in essence, "a
hegemony of the
Kutama and
Sanhaja...
- the 11th
century onward, a
series of
Berber dynasties arose.
Under the
Sanhaja Almoravid dynasty and the
Masmuda Almohad dynasty,
Morocco dominated the...
- M'Zem
Sanhaja is a
small town and
rural commune in El Kelâat Es-Sraghna
Province of the Marrakesh-Safi
region of Morocco. At the time of the 2004 census...
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Sanhaja Lamtuna erected (or captured) the
citadel of Awdaghust, a
critical stop on the trans-Saharan
trade route.
After the
collapse of the
Sanhaja union...
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Hilal and Banu
Sulaym Arab tribes. In the 13th century, they took the
Sanhaja territories in the
southwest of the Sahara. In Morocco, they
first settled...
