Banu Ifran
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The Ifranids, also called Banu Ifran, Ifran, or the children of the Ifran (Arabic: بنو يفرن, Banu Yifran), were a Zenata Berber tribe prominent in the history of pre-Islamic and early Islamic North Africa.
The tribe originated in the region of Yifran in present day north-west Libya whilst Tlemcen in present-day north-west Algeria was a capital of the Kingdom of Banu Ifran from AD 790 to AD 1068.
The Banu Ifran resisted or revolted against the foreign occupiers—Romans, Vandals, and Byzantines—of their territory in Africa. In the seventh century, they sided with Kahina in her resistance against the Muslim Umayyad invaders. In the eighth century they mobilized around the dogma of sufri in revolting against the Arab Umayyads and Abbasids. In the 10th century they founded a dynasty opposed to the Fatimids, the Zirids, the Umayyads, the Hammadids and the Maghraoua. The Banu Ifran were defeated by the Almoravids and the invading Arabs (the Banu Hilal and the Banu Sulaym) to the end of the 11th century. The Ifranid dynasty was recognized as the only dynasty that has defended the indigenous people of the Maghreb, by the Romans referred to as the Africani.
In 11th century Iberia, the Banu Ifran conquered and built the city of Ronda in Andalusia and governed from Cordoba for several centuries.
Read more about Banu Ifran: History, Etymology, Dynasty, Ifran in Spain