زناتة

زناتة

Zanata, among the greatest Berber tribes; of the Baranis stock in the genealogists' count, their homeland the Middle and Far Maghreb, Sijilmasa and its marches, tent-dwellers and settlers both — their tiers: the first Maghrawa, Banu Yafran and Miknasa; the second Awlad Mandil, Musamida and their kin; the third Banu Badin including Banu Tujin and the royal houses of the Marinids of Fez and Abd al-Wadids of Tlemcen — from them rose Abu Yazid 'Man of the Donkey' against the Fatimids, and they obeyed by turns the Marwanid and Fatimid da'wa until the Almoravid state arose.