Emirate of Noukour

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The Maghreb from the 8th to 10th centuries

The emirate Noukour , sometimes emirate Nakor , was around the year 710 during the Islamic conquest of the Maghreb from which the Yemen coming Arab princes founded Salih I ibn Mansour. The only historical source on this is a short report by the chronicler Ibn Chaldūn from the late 14th century.

location

The emirate of Noukour stretched along the Mediterranean coast in the mouth of the Oued Nekor ; its capital may have been in what is now the small town of Beni Bouayach .

history

Several Arab princes tried to realize their own territorial claims during the conquest of the Maghreb - one of them was Salih I ibn Mansour, who came from what is now Yemen and wanted to convert the Berbers to Islam, which he succeeded at times. These rose up around the year 740 because they disliked the strict laws of Islam and drove Salih ibn Mansour from the country. They commissioned a man by the name of Er-Rondi to instruct them in the faith of their ancestors, but after a short time they also drove him out and brought back Salih ibn Mansour, who however died in 749. He is considered to be the founder of the Salihid dynasty .

Under his son El-Motassem and his successors, the empire became unstable due to internal power struggles until Saïd ibn Idris came to power, who ruled the emirate for 37 years until his death in 803/804. His son Saleh bin Said was granted an even longer reign; he died in 864. During his reign, however, there was an attack by the Normans who had come with 62 ships and sacked the capital.

At the beginning of the 10th century, a Fatimid general occupied the empire for several months, but its ruler was able to escape, fled to Yemen and returned from there with recruited troops. But also in the following years the Fatimids pursued a policy of hegemony over the Maghreb; in 1019 they were finally able to conquer the emirate.

Follow-up in Andalusia

Several members of the Salihid family managed to flee to the court of the Emir of Saragossa ; there and in the other Taifa kingdoms of Al-Andalus they occupied important military positions. Their goal was to reunite the splintered power in the country in one (possibly their) hand. After the recapture ( reconquista ) Toledo (1085) by Alfons VI. the Berber Almoravids attacked Andalusia; in 1140 the Salihids were stripped of all their political and military offices. They then turned to the Almohads , who were waging a jihad against the Almoravids in Morocco . In 1240 they put their military capabilities at the service of in Granada resident Nazari . In 1490 - two years before the reconquest of Granada by the Catholic Monarchs - they left Andalusia and returned to North Africa, where their trace is lost.

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