زيري بن عطية المغراوي

زيري بن عطية المغراوي

1001 عیسوی · 391 ھ

Ziri ibn Atiyya ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Khazir al-Maghrawi, founder of the Zirid (Maghrawa) kingship of Fez; chief of the house of Khazir who laid the state's foundation at Fez and the Far Maghreb in obedience to al-Mansur Ibn Abi Amir — Abd al-Malik al-Muzaffar met him at Wadi Mina by Tangier in Shawwal 388, where three spear-wounds in the neck unhorsed him, Fez shut its gates and he fled to the Sahara stripped of his realm; he returned to take Tahert, Tlemcen, Shelif, Tenis and Msila for the Amirid da'wa, besieged the Sanhaja seat of Achir, fell ill, raised the siege and died on the march home in 391, leaving the kingship to his son al-Mu'izz.