Kutama
The Kotama (Ikutamiyene in Berber) are a Berber tribe inhabiting "Babors" of Kabylie, region of north-eastern Algeria. The tribe was known as Ukutamanorum under the Romans, then Ucutamani under the Byzantines.
The tribe had an important role during the medieval period (909 - 1171) in the center of North Africa. They founded, alongside missionaries and imams such as Abu Abd Allah ash-Chi'i and Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi, the Fatimid dynasty, which eventually replaced the Arab emirate of the Aghlabids, who controlled Ifriqiya (North Africa) 800-909, nominally as vassals of the Abbasid Caliphate. The Kotamas were also the source of the first Islamic dynasty of indigenous Berbers in the Maghreb, the Zirids (972-1148), founded by the Kutama general Buluggin ibn Ziri (also: Bologhine ibn Ziri, Bologhin ibn Ziri), son of the Fatimid governor of the Maghreb, Ziri ibn Manad, who had been rewarded with his position after defeating the Kharijite rebellion of Abu Yazid (943-947).
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