Banu Tujin
بنو توجين
Banu Tujin of the Badin folk of the third Zanata tier, one of their greatest and most numerous divisions; their homeland the slopes of Wadi Shelif below Jabal Wansharish, their chieftaincy the Banu Daflaten — Atiyya ibn Daflaten and Luqman ibn al-Mu'tazz, who sent his son Yidr with bay'a to Badis before the battle when his folk numbered some three thousand — famed in Hammad ibn Buluggin's wars; the chieftaincy then passed to the Banu Abd al-Qawi until the Abd al-Wadids took their homeland, and among their later amirs Atiyya al-Hayyu, killed in 607 by the Tlemcen governor's ruse, and Nasr ibn Umar of Jabal Wansharish into the days of the last Abu Hammu.
At a glance
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Maghreb
- Review
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Overview
Banu Tujin are among the peoples of Banu Badin, of the third class of the Zanata. Ibn Khaldun describes them as among the greatest and most numerous of their tribes. 1
Homelands and leadership
Their homeland was on both banks of the Wadi Shelif, facing the mountain of Wanshrish. Leadership belonged to Banu Dafaltan, among them Atiyya ibn Dafaltan and Luqman ibn al-Mu'tazz. Luqman sent his son to Badis, before the encounter, to offer obedience and allegiance. Their people numbered about three thousand, and they had a part in the wars of Hammad ibn Buluggin. 1
Changes
Leadership passed to Banu Abd al-Qawi, and then Banu Abd al-Wad overcame their homelands. Among their later emirs was Atiyya al-Hayw, who was killed in the year 607 AH by a plot of the governor of Tlemcen. Among them was Nasr ibn Umar, lord of the mountain of Wanshrish, until the last days of Abu Hammu. 1
This needs a second source: the account of Atiyya al-Hayw rests on one source.
Sources
- Kitab al-Ibar of Ibn Khaldun
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islam.museum contributors. “Banu Tujin”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/group/banu-tujin/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.