قبيلة مغراوة الزناتية في ظل الصراع بين الأمويين بالأندلس و بني زيري الصنهاجيين حلفاء الفاطميين ببلاد المغرب (361-391ه 971-1001م)‎

Abstract EN

The Maghraoua tribe is considered one of the strongest Berber communities of Zenata.

It was forcibly displaced from its original homeland in the central Maghreb in the year 361 AH / 971 AD, by the Banu Ziri of the Sanhajis, allies of the Fatimids, and it marched to the Far Maghreb, and this had a profound impact on the course of political events, where Khazron bin Falfoul bin Khazar emerged.

He was able to establish the Maghraouia Emirate in Sejlemasa in the year 367 AH / 977 CE, and Ziri bin Atiya al-Maghraoui was able to reunite the Zenite tribes, which he assumed leadership in the year 368 AH / 978 CE, and established the Maghraouya Emirate in the city of Fez, both of which are under the rule of the Umayyads in Andalusia.

It is noteworthy that the countries of the Maghreb took place in the midst of the conflict between the two hostile caliphs, the Umayyad Caliphate in Andalusia and the Fatimid Caliphate in Morocco and then Egypt, which deliberated to the tribal alliance, and took advantage of the old traditional hostility between the Zenata of Batr and the Sanhaja of the Pyrenees, to achieve their goals.

The Banu Ziri of the Sanhajis, their representatives in the countries of the Maghreb after their departure to Egypt, and encouraged the conflict between the two tribes, so the Maghrawis provided great services to the Umayyads, in order to preserve their influence in the Far Maghreb, which represented the defense line against the Fatimid Shiite infiltration into Andalusia.

There is no doubt that the Maghraoua princes sought to expand their influence, so Saeed bin Khazron sided with the Banu Ziri of the Sanhajis, but his son Fulful continued to declare disobedience, and he managed to establish the Maghraouya Emirate in Tripoli in the year 391 AH / 1000 CE.

As for Ziri bin Attia, he aspired to establish an independent Maghrao-Zenite state.

This is why he strived hard to retrieve the citizen of his tribe in the central Maghreb from Sanhaja, as he tried to depose his obedience to al-Mansur bin Abi Amer in Andalusia in the year 386 AH / 996 CE.

Thus, the Maghraoua tribe split into the Emirate of Bani Khazron in Sejlmasa, the Emirate of Ziri bin Attia in Fez, and the Emirate of Falfoul bin Said bin Khazron in Tripoli, and failed to establish a Maghraoui Zenat state in the countries of Morocco, in light of its immersion in the Fatimid Umayyad conflict, of which the Islamic Maghreb became an arena for it, and the tribal conflict Senhaji Al-Zanati as a show of him.