- The
Sufris (Arabic: الصفرية aṣ-Ṣufriyya) were
Khariji Muslims in the
seventh and
eighth centuries. They
established the
Midrarid state at Sijilm****a, now...
-
Kharijite Berbers in 757 —
Sufrite Warfajuma in Kairouan,
Ibadite Nafusa in Tripoli) Asim ibn
Jamil al-Warfajumi (
Sufrite), 757–758 Abd al-Malik ibn Abi...
- grew
receptive to
radical Kharijite activists from the east (notably of
Sufrite and
later Ibadite persuasion)
which had
begun arriving in the
Maghreb in...
- grew
receptive to
puritan Kharijite activists,
particularly those of the
Sufrite sect, that had
begun arriving in the Maghreb,
preaching a new political...
- the
Umayyad governor of Ifriqya,
Handhala ibn
Safwan al-Kalbi, and the
Sufrite Berber insurgents led by Abd al-Wahid ibn
Yazid al-Hawwari. The Umayyads...
- of Fez. In 789 AD, he
captured Tlemcen (in modern-day Algeria) from the
Sufrite Ifranid Abu
Qurra which became part of the kingdom. This
succession of...
- was in pursuit, the
Sufrites resolved to
fight instead.
Following a
final ultimatum from Yahya, the two
forces clashed. The
Sufrites were
defeated and Shayban...
-
between the
Umayyad governor of
ifriqya Handhala ibn
Safwan al-Kalbi and the
Sufrite Berber insurgents led by
Oqasha ibn Ayub al-Fezari, the
Umayyads were victorious...
- off an
attack by the
Berber rebel army
raised in
southern Tunisia by the
Sufrite leader Oqasha ibn Ayub al-Fezari.
Handhala ibn
Safwan arrived in Kairouan...
- al-Andalus. The
Berber rebellion was
inspired by
Kharijite activists of the
Sufrite sect, who held out the
promise of a new
puritan Islamic order, without...
