Malzūza

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The Malzūza were a Berber tribe in Tripolitania (Libya) and Ifrīqiya (Tunisia) in the Middle Ages . Some Malzūza (e.g. the Banū Dānis ) also settled in al-Andalus (Spain and Portugal) after the Islamic conquest of the Iberian Peninsula .

According to the Arab historian Ibn Chaldūn , the Malzūza belonged to the tribe of the Al-Butr within the tribal group of the Ḍarīsa, according to other information to the tribal confederation of the Zanata- Berber. The majority of the Malzūza allegedly killed 772, after the Arab general governor Yazid ibn Hatim ibn Kabisa ibn al-Muhallab the Kharijite had put down the Berber rebellion of Abu Hatim al-Malzūzī. The surviving remnants of the Malzūza joined other Berber confederations, they are said to have been mentioned as early as the 10th century.

In the 13th century, the Moroccan poet Abu Faris Abdelaziz ibn Abdarrahman referred to himself as al-Malzuzi (that is, "from the tribe of the Malzūza").

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ EJ Van Donzel: Islamic Desk Reference , page 243. Brill, Leiden 1994
  2. ^ A b Moše Šārôn: Studies in Islamic History and Civilization (In Honor of Professor David Ayalon) , pp. 310f. Brill, Leiden 1986
  3. ↑ Helena de Felipe: Identidad y onomástica de los Beréberes de Al-Andalus , pages 89ff. Editorial CSIC, Madrid 1997
  4. ^ Peter C. Scales: The Fall of the Caliphate of Córdoba - Berbers and Andalusis in Conflict , pages 145 and 148. Brill, Leiden 1993

literature

  • Ibn Khaldoun: Histoire des Berbères et des dynasties musulmanes de l'Afrique septentrionale (translated by William Mac Guckin de Slane). Algiers 1852

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