8th century – 10th century
Western Maghrib
The Sufrite Principality of Sijilmasa was a Kharijite state established in the middle of the eighth century in the western Maghrib. It was the smaller of the two Kharijite polities highlighted in the passage and remained outside Abbasid and Aghlabid control until the Fatimids destroyed it during the tenth century.
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The Story
Sijilmasa became the center of a Sufrite principality during the middle of the eighth century, when Kharijite communities in the Maghrib established independent political formations. Its Sufrite affiliation distinguished it from the Ibadi Imamate of Tahert, although both states expressed the broader Berber engagement with Kharijite political and religious ideas.
The principality was smaller than Tahert and occupied a position in the western Maghrib. The passage places it within the wider zone where Kharijite doctrines spread among Berber populations seeking religious principles of equality and political alternatives to Arab bureaucratic domination.
Sijilmasa, like Tahert, remained outside the authority of the Abbasid government and the Aghlabid governors of Ifriqiya. Its independence ended when the Fatimids destroyed the Kharijite states during the fourth/tenth century, after which Kharijism lost much of its role as the principal expression of Berber opposition to foreign rule.
8th century – 10th century
Western Maghrib
The Sufrite Principality of Sijilmasa was a Kharijite state established in the middle of the eighth century in the western Maghrib. It was the smaller of the two Kharijite polities highlighted in the passage and remained outside Abbasid and Aghlabid control until the Fatimids destroyed it during the tenth century.
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The Story
Sijilmasa became the center of a Sufrite principality during the middle of the eighth century, when Kharijite communities in the Maghrib established independent political formations. Its Sufrite affiliation distinguished it from the Ibadi Imamate of Tahert, although both states expressed the broader Berber engagement with Kharijite political and religious ideas.
The principality was smaller than Tahert and occupied a position in the western Maghrib. The passage places it within the wider zone where Kharijite doctrines spread among Berber populations seeking religious principles of equality and political alternatives to Arab bureaucratic domination.
Sijilmasa, like Tahert, remained outside the authority of the Abbasid government and the Aghlabid governors of Ifriqiya. Its independence ended when the Fatimids destroyed the Kharijite states during the fourth/tenth century, after which Kharijism lost much of its role as the principal expression of Berber opposition to foreign rule.
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