The Hammadid Capture of Fez occurred in 1062.

Background

Buluggin ibn Muhammad Buluggin ibn Muhammad () (died 1062) was the ruler of the Hammadid dynasty, Hammadids from 1055 to 1062. He led an army into Morocco against the Almoravids and briefly captured Fez, Morocco, Fes. Reign Buluggin succeeded his cousin Muhsin ibn Q ...

had just coordinated a campaign in

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where he restored Hammadid authority.

Capture

Buluggin decided to lead an expedition against Fez, which was under the control of local

Maghrawa The Maghrawa or Meghrawa ( ar, المغراويون) were a large Zenata Berber tribal confederation whose cradle and seat of power was the territory located on the Chlef in the north-western part of today's Algeria, bounded by the Ouarsenis to ...

(

Zenata The Zenata (Berber language: Iznaten) are a group of Amazigh (Berber) tribes, historically one of the largest Berber confederations along with the Sanhaja and Masmuda. Their lifestyle was either nomadic or semi-nomadic. Etymology ''Iznaten (ⵉ ...

) rulers. Buluggin marched against the Almoravids, repelled them and then captured Fez.

Aftermath

Buluggin spent several months in Fez before leaving, taking with him some of the inhabitants of the city as captives. His paternal cousin

Nasir ibn Alnas An-Nasir ibn Alnas, (Arabic: الناصر بن الناس) ''(Alnnasir bin Alnaas)'' (died 1088) was the fifth ruler of the Hammadids in Algeria, from 1062 until his death. Life An-Nasir succeeded Buluggin ibn Muhammad (1055–1062) after hi ...

, who wished to avenge the death of his sister, took the opportunity to assassinate Buluggin during his return journey and then succeeded him as Hammadid ruler. Fez returned afterwards to the control of local Maghrawa, until it was besieged by the

Almoravids The Almoravid dynasty ( ar, المرابطون, translit=Al-Murābiṭūn, lit=those from the ribats) was an imperial Berber Muslim dynasty centered in the territory of present-day Morocco. It established an empire in the 11th century that ...

for many years during the 1060s and eventually fell to them in 1069–70.

References

{{reflist 1062 Hammadids Medieval Algeria Fez, Morocco