- 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...
- 757–758 Abd al-Malik ibn Abi 'l-Jad al-Waranjumi (
Sufrite), 758 (Ibadites of
Tripoli depose Sufrites in Kairouan, 758) Abu al-Khattab Abd al-Ala ibn al-Samh...
- The
Sufris (Arabic: الصفرية aṣ-Ṣufriyya) were
Khariji Muslims in the
seventh and
eighth centuries. They
established the
Midrarid state at Sijilm****a, now...
- The
kingdom did not last long: in
accordance with the
strict rules of
Sufrites, Abu
Qurra would not
allow his
descendants to
found a dynasty. He welcomed...
- grew
receptive to
radical Kharijite activists from the east (notably of
Sufrite and
later Ibadite persuasion)
which had
begun arriving in the
Maghreb in...
- 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...
- 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...
- sub-tribe of the Nafzawa, the
Warfajuma had been
fired up by
Kharijite (
Sufrites) and
broken away
during the
Great Berber Revolt of 740s. Abd al-Wareth...
-
Unorthodox sects such as the Kharijite, Ibadi, Isma'ili,
Nukkarite and
Sufrite found fertile soil
among many
Berbers dissatisfied with the oppressive...
- grew
receptive to
puritan Kharijite activists,
particularly those of the
Sufrite sect, that had
begun arriving in the Maghreb,
preaching a new political...
