Midrarid dynasty

The Banū Midrār were a Miknāsa Berber line that ruled Sijilmāsa at the end of the second Islamic century; Ibn Khaldun makes Midrār their founder, notes that he was a Ṣufrī Ibāḍī, and says their dominion in Sijilmāsa reached its height in his era ¹.

Ibn Khaldun records that ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Rustam, master of Tāhart, managed the affairs of the young Midrār through his daughter Urwā, who became the grandmother of their princes — a marriage alliance joining the two Ibāḍī states — and that al-Muʿtazz b. Muḥammad b. Midrār later took sole power: "it was he who finished its building and erecting, and laid out its factories and palaces," dying in 221 ¹. He then lists his successors Abū l-Muntaṣir Muḥammad and Midrār, surnamed Abū l-ʿĀfiya, until the crisis of Abū Yazīd and what followed ².

• Text from the harvested Ibar of Ibn Khaldun (Heliopolis 1957): pp. 1619–1621 (the Miknāsa clans and the state of the Banū Midrār). The house is named "Banū Midrār" in the text; its kinship with the Banū Rustam is documented in the same section. The other source filed on the card (Yaʿqūt's Muʿjam al-Buldān) has not yielded an entry for the dynasty — the locally extracted Yaqut volumes do not reach letter sīn — so the source stays on the card without prose drawn from it.