Ifriqiya
إفريقية
Ifriqiya, the Maghreb province between Tripoli and Tangier; Ibn al-Kalbi says Ifriqis ibn Qays ibn Sayfi al-Himyari held it in the Jahiliyya and it was named for him — he killed its king Jurjir and said of the Barabira 'how barbarous these folk', whence they were called al-Barabira; Abdallah ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Sarh raided it under Uthman, killed its patrikios at Sbejtla and took its grandees' three hundred qintar of gold, then Uqba ibn Nafi' opened it and laid out its Qayrawan.
At a glance
- Era
- The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period
- Region
- Maghreb
- Review
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Connections
- Site of
- Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib's Independent Rule of the Maghreb Frontier· The First Raid on Ifriqiya and the Killing of Its Patrikios· The Founding of Qayrawan· Hassan ibn al-Nu'man's Campaigns against al-Kahina· Harun's Appointment of Ibrahim ibn al-Aghlab over the Maghreb· Isma'il ibn Abdallah and Umar II's Mission to the Berbers· The Killing of Kulthum ibn Iyad in Ifriqiya· The Killing of Yazid ibn Abi Muslim in His Prayer-Place· The Martyrdom of Umar ibn Hafs and the Ruin of al-Abbasiyya· Yazid ibn Hatim's March to Ifriqiya and His Killing of Abu Khatim
- Contains
- سوق الأحد
People and things also explored
The Berbers· أبو خاتم السدراتي· عبد الرحمن بن حبيب الفهري· عبد الله بن موسى بن نصير· Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr ibn Abd al-Muttalib· Abdullah ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Sarh· Abu Dhu'ayb al-Hudhali· الفضل بن روح
Sources
- Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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islam.museum contributors. “Ifriqiya”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/ifriqiya/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.