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	'Uqba ibn Nafi - Ummah.com - Muslim Forum
		When Uqba Ibn Nafi, the great Arab general who conquered North Africa, reached the Atlantic coastline, he reportedly marched his horse into the sea until the waves reached its neck.
		Soon after his greatest triumph, however, Uqba was to be killed along with much of his army.
		In the hour of danger, the grateful Uqba unlocked his fetters, and told him he was fee to go.
	www.ummah.com /forum/showthread.php?t=82166 (276 words)

	Kairouan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kairouan was founded in about the year 670 when the Muslim general Uqba ibn Nafi selected a site in the middle of a dense forest, then infested with wild beasts and reptiles, as the location of a military post.
		Ibn Nafi was killed in battle by the Berbers about fifteen years after the military post was established.
		The city was soon recaptured and remained for four centuries a major holy city, the "Mecca of North Africa".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kairouan (543 words)

	Islamic architecture - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Islamic architecture
		It is based on the 6th-century Byzantine Hagia Sofia, and has a symmetrical design.
		A courtyard sahn is a place of gathering for the community.
		The Arab-type mosque plan of columned halls surrounding a courtyard is found throughout North Africa, Arabia, Syria, and Mesopotamia; an example is the mosque of Ahmad ibn Tulun, Cairo, Egypt (876–79).
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Islamic+architecture (1136 words)

	Algeria encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, Algeria politics and officials, Algerian History. Travel to Algeria
		Tariq ibn Ziyad, one of the leaders of the Moorish conquest of Iberia in 711.
		Yusuf ibn Tashfin, founder of the Almoravid dynasty
		Ziri ibn Manad founder of the Zirid dynasty
	www.algeriaiworld.com /wiki-Amazigh (3923 words)

	Kairouan,Tunisia
		Historical records relate that in 670 AD the Arab conqueror, Uqba ibn Nafi crossed the deserts of Egypt and began the first Muslem conquest of the Maghreb region of North Africa.
		Establishing military posts at regular intervals along his route, Uqba ibn Nafi came to the site of present day Kairouan and there decided to encamp his soldiers for some days (Kairouan, also spelled Qayrawan, means "camp" in Arabic).
		Here we find mention of an incident that occurred during the initial encampment of Uqba ibn Nafi, an incident which, because of its miraculous nature, most history books have chosen to ignore.
	sacredsites.com /africa/tunisia/kairouan.html (1274 words)

	Islamic Art Network - Technical Glossary
		This dynasty was established in 800 A.D. by Ibrahim ibn Aghlab, who was the governor sent by the Abassid Caliph, Harun al-Rashid, to suppress the unrest caused by the Berber tribes in North Africa.
		The Great Mosque of Qayrawan, the oldest surviving mosque built by the Arabs in North Africa, was originally by the Arab general Uqba ibn Nafi‘.
		This was a Berber dynasty founded by Mahdi ibn Tumart, who had studied in the east and then came back to claim himself the mahdi.
	www.islamic-art.org /Glossary/glossary.asp (1502 words)

	The Ethos Created By God's Messenger
		When ‘Uqba, the Muslim conqueror of North Africa, took leave of his family and mounted his horse for the great adventure which was to lead him through two thousand miles of conquest to the Moroccan shores of the Atlantic, he cried out: ‘And now, God, take my soul’.
		The empire of Alexander crashed after his death but in the lands conquered by ‘Uqba, Islam - the creed of ‘Uqba - is still the only dominant world-view, creed and life-style of the people after fourteen centuries despite the concerted attacks and efforts the Western powers have made to eradicate it for centuries.
		Ibn al-Haytham was one of the principal Muslim mathematicians and without any doubt the greatest physicist.
	www.thewaytotruth.org /prophetmuhammad/ethos.html (2849 words)

	Kairouan prepares for the Prophet's birthday (Magharebia.com)
		Kairouan was founded in the year 670 under the leadership of Uqba ibn Nafi, a Companion of the Prophet (PBH), as a capital and base for their conquest of the Maghreb region.
		Kairouan is situated at a crossroads, which was one reason Uqba ibn Nafi chose the location for his capital and headquarters.
		A mosque named after Uqba ibn Nafi is also located in the city, and is considered a holy place by many Muslims.
	www.magharebia.com /cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/reportage/2007/03/30/reportage-01 (1374 words)

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		Era 670 in ANNUNCIO che le prime invasioni arabe della pianura litoranea africana del nord hanno avvenuto sotto il ibn Nafi di Uqba, un serving generale sotto il Umayyads di Damasco.
		Ha scopato con il suo esercito in che cosa ora è il Marocco durante l’anno 683.
		Il paese presto si è rotto via dal controllo dei caliphs distanti di Abbasid a Bagdad sotto il ibn Abdallah di Idris che ha fondato il Dynasty di Idrisid.
	www.riad-selection.com /c/italiano (5637 words)

	AllRefer.com - Algeria - Islam And The Arabs, 642-1830 \| Algerian Information Resource
		Abu al Muhajir Dina, Uqba's successor, pushed westward into Algeria and eventually worked out a modus vivendi with Kusayla, the ruler of an extensive confederation of Christian Berbers.
		Just to the west of Aghlabid lands, Abd ar Rahman ibn Rustum ruled most of the central Maghrib from Tahirt, southwest of Algiers.
		The rulers of the Rustumid imamate, which lasted from 761 to 909, each an Ibadi (see Glossary) Kharijite imam (see Glossary), were elected by leading citizens.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/algeria/algeria16.html (797 words)

	Top 20 Encyclopedia
		A second mixed army of Arabs and Berbers came in 712 under Ibn Nusayr himself, and are claimed to have formed approximately 66% of the Islamic population in Iberia, and supposedly that is the reason why they helped the Umayyad caliph Abd ar-Rahman I in Al-Andalus, because his mother was a Berber woman.
		During the Taifa era, the petty kings came from a variety of ethnic groups; some - for instance the Zirid kings of Granada - were of Berber origin.
		Saint Augustine of Hippo, (from Tagaste, was Berber, although he grew up speaking Punic)
	encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/Berbers (3378 words)

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