''For the Melkite theologian, see
Theodore Abu Qurrah''
Abu Qurra () a member of the
Sufri
The Sufris ( ar, الصفرية ''aṣ-Ṣufriyya'') were Khariji Muslims in the seventh and eighth centuries. They established the Midrarid state at Sijilmassa, now in Morocco.
In Tlemcen, Algeria, the Banu Ifran were Sufri Berbers who oppose ...
te tribe
Banu Ifran of
Tlemcen
Tlemcen (; ar, تلمسان, translit=Tilimsān) is the second-largest city in northwestern Algeria after Oran, and capital of the Tlemcen Province. The city has developed leather, carpet, and textile industries, which it exports through the p ...
, was the founder of the indigenous
Berber Muslim movement with
Kharijite tendencies in
North Africa
North Africa, or Northern Africa is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of Mauritania in ...
after the overthrow of the
Umayyad dynasty
Umayyad dynasty ( ar, بَنُو أُمَيَّةَ, Banū Umayya, Sons of Umayya) or Umayyads ( ar, الأمويون, al-Umawiyyūn) were the ruling family of the Caliphate between 661 and 750 and later of Al-Andalus between 756 and 1031. In t ...
. Between 767 and 776, Abu Qurra organised an army of more than 350,000 riders in the north of Africa.
[Ibn Khaldun, History of Berber, party Banu Ifran] He was the first head of state of the Berber Muslim
Maghreb
The Maghreb (; ar, الْمَغْرِب, al-Maghrib, lit=the west), also known as the Arab Maghreb ( ar, المغرب العربي) and Northwest Africa, is the western part of North Africa and the Arab world. The region includes Algeria, ...
.
Ibn Khaldun described him in his book ''Kitab El Ibar''.
References
8th-century Berber people
Berber rulers
Berber Muslims
Kharijites
Ifranid dynasty
8th-century monarchs in Africa
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