From 8th century
Southern Tripolitania, Djabal Nafusa and western Algeria
The Ibāḍite political sphere described in the passage extended from southern Tripolitania and Djabal Nafusa toward western Algeria. Its rulers are presented as controlling Saharan traffic and potentially attempting to organize regular trans-Saharan links. The extract also depicts Ibāḍite power as a political and ideological barrier to Aghlabid expansion toward the south.
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The Story
The passage describes Ibāḍite rulers as holding an area that stretched from southern Tripolitania and Djabal Nafusa to western Algeria. This zone occupied a strategic position between the northern Maghrib and the Saharan corridors leading toward the Sahel. Its political significance derived in part from control over routes and access across the desert.
The Ibāḍites are characterized as a political and ideological barrier to the southward penetration of the Aghlabids. At the same time, the source does not conclude that their control of Saharan traffic prevented commercial exchanges. It explicitly leaves open the possibility that they monopolized the routes while selling gold to the governors of Kayrawān.
The presence of gold in Ifrīqiya and the known links between Tāhert and Gao are presented as reasons to give greater credibility to the hypothesis that Ibāḍite authorities tried to organize a regular trans-Saharan connection. The chronology and institutional form of this effort remain uncertain, and the author calls for archaeological research at places such as Sidjilmāsa and Tāhert.
From 8th century
Southern Tripolitania, Djabal Nafusa and western Algeria
The Ibāḍite political sphere described in the passage extended from southern Tripolitania and Djabal Nafusa toward western Algeria. Its rulers are presented as controlling Saharan traffic and potentially attempting to organize regular trans-Saharan links. The extract also depicts Ibāḍite power as a political and ideological barrier to Aghlabid expansion toward the south.
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The Story
The passage describes Ibāḍite rulers as holding an area that stretched from southern Tripolitania and Djabal Nafusa to western Algeria. This zone occupied a strategic position between the northern Maghrib and the Saharan corridors leading toward the Sahel. Its political significance derived in part from control over routes and access across the desert.
The Ibāḍites are characterized as a political and ideological barrier to the southward penetration of the Aghlabids. At the same time, the source does not conclude that their control of Saharan traffic prevented commercial exchanges. It explicitly leaves open the possibility that they monopolized the routes while selling gold to the governors of Kayrawān.
The presence of gold in Ifrīqiya and the known links between Tāhert and Gao are presented as reasons to give greater credibility to the hypothesis that Ibāḍite authorities tried to organize a regular trans-Saharan connection. The chronology and institutional form of this effort remain uncertain, and the author calls for archaeological research at places such as Sidjilmāsa and Tāhert.
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