- The
Sanhaja (Arabic: صنهاجة, romanized:
Ṣanhāja, or زناگة Znāga;
Berber languages: Aẓnag, pl. Iẓnagen, and also Aẓnaj, pl. Iẓnajen) were once one of the...
- ("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...
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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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region of the
Maghreb contained several fully independent tribes (e.g.,
Sanhaja, Houaras, Zenata, Masmuda, Kutama, Awraba, Barghawata, etc.).[full citation...
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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...
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Morocco and one of the
largest in the Maghreb,
along with the
Zenata and the
Sanhaja. Today, the
Masmuda confederacy largely corresponds to the
speakers of...
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commonly worn
among the
Berber Sanhaja tribes in north-west Africa. Its use by the Almoravids, who
originated from a
Sanhaja clan, gave it a
political significance...
