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	CONK! Encyclopedia: Berghouata (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Berghouata were a medieval Berber tribe of the Atlantic coast of Morocco, belonging to the Masmuda group of tribes.
		After allying with a failed Sufri Kharijite rebellion in Morocco against the Abbasids, they established a kingdom in the area of Tamesna between 744 and 1058, when the Almoravids conquered them.
		The Berghouata kingdom followed a syncretic religion inspired by Islam featuring the second ruler of the dynasty, Salih ibn Tarif, as the final prophet.
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Berghouata (242 words)

	Salih ibn Tarif - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sâlih ibn Tarîf (Arabic صالح بن طريف) was the second king of the Berghouata, and proclaimed himself a prophet of a new religion.
		In Islamic literature, his belief is considered heretical; politically, its motivation was presumably to establish their independence from the Umayyads (in a manner analogous to Kharijism, and earlier Donatism), establishing an independent ideology lending legitimacy to the state.
		Some modern Berber activists regard him as a hero for his resistance to Arab conquest and his foundation of the Berghouata state.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Salih_ibn_Tarif (353 words)

	Almoravides - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Under him the Murabits soon began to spread their power beyond the desert, and subjected the tribes of the Atlas Mountains.
		They then came in contact with the Berghouata, a Berber people of central Morocco, who followed a heresy founded by Salih ibn Tarif three centuries earlier.
		The Berghouata made a fierce resistance, and it was in battle with them that Abdullah ibn Yasin was killed.
	www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Almoravides (1127 words)

	Itinerance Plus - Your gateway to Morocco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 742, Salih ben tariff son of a Kharejite proclaims himself prophet and offers to his followers Berghouata a Berber version of the Koran in 80 chapters which he claims was revealed to him.
		He founds a theocratic kingdom which extends from Salé to Safi (In Islam temporal matters are never separated from spiritual ones) whose total destruction was completed only under the Almohads’ rule, four centuries later.
		Back in their country they settle down into tribes (not always their own) where they found religious teaching centres in which they were known as wise and knowledgeable and even as saints, the first Zaouias were born.
	www.itineranceplus.com /english/culturalmemomarrakech.asp?ID=12 (458 words)

	Berghouata Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For now you may want to try Berghouata at [coruwat.com] for information.
		The most likely reason our database doesn't have the information on Berghouata is because our editors haven't gotten around to finalizing it yet.
		If you are in urgent need of finding information on this subject you may want to click one of the links found on this page for Berghouata or do a search at google.
	www.echostatic.com /Berghouata.html (93 words)

	Your Heading Goes Here
		The western suburb of Anfa was the site of a Phoenician trading station founded in the 6th century B.C. It became the capital of the Berghouata confederacy of Berber tribes who resisted the authority of the early Islamic states.
		Sultan Abdel Moumen broke the resistance of the Berghouata and destroyed Anfa in 1149.
		The port remained in use, but by the 15th century it housed a flotilla of corsairs who raided the Portuguese coast so effectively that Don Ferdinand sent an armada against this threat in 1468 and again in 1515.
	www.aca.org.ma /TIC.htm (2734 words)

	My Place (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Berbers embraced Islam but quickly succumbed to heretical doctrines, setting up their own prophet and a "qur'an" in Berber language.
		The principality was known as Berghouata and its tribal inhabitants joined a Kharijite rebellion against the Arab governor of Tangier.
		In the 11th century the Almoravids waged holy war against these heretics who were finally defeated by the Almohad Sultan Abdul Mou'min.
	abder.imaroc.com /custom.html (883 words)

	Itinerance Plus - Your gateway to Morocco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His followers (the Murabitun) set out to convert (by force) to orthodox Islam of Malekite rite all the heretics, focusing their attacks primarily on all objects likely to lead people astray (music instruments, places where fermented beverages were fabricated) thereby they increased their prestige and the number of their followers.
		When they felt strong enough they set out to conquer the country taking first Aghmat capital of the Maghraoua, then they directed their forces against the Berghouata of Tamesna (A. Ben Yassine was to loose his life during the campaign against the Berghouata whom they had vanquished but not totally crushed).
		Abu Bekr Ben Omar who had succeeded to Yahia Ben Brahim entrusted Youssef ben Tachfine with the leadership and retreated into the Sahara where it seems the various Sahanja Berber tribes true to their traditions had started again to wage war one on the other.
	www.itineranceplus.com /english/culturalmemo2.asp?CulturalID=13 (431 words)

	Riad Marocco - Riad Maroc - Riyad Marocco
		First the Almoravids, then the Almohads would see Morocco rule most of Northwest Africa, as well as large sections of Spain.
		The smaller states of the region, such as the Berghouata and Banu Isam, were conquered.The empire collapsed, however, with a long running series of civil wars.
		Morocco 1631-1912 The Alaouite Dynasty eventually gained control.
	www.riad-online.com /uk/home.htm (777 words)

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