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    Middle Ages: Medieval Muslim Algeria

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    During the Middle Ages, Muslim Arabs of the Umayyad Caliphate conquered Algeria in the early 8th century. Many indigenous Berbers converted to Islam, though Christians remained the majority until the 10th century. Several local dynasties emerged and ruled over Algeria, including the Rustamids, Aghlabids, Fatimids, Zirids, Hammadids, Almoravids, and Almohads. The Fatimids went on to found a long-lasting dynasty across North Africa and the Levant, with their capital in Cairo. Their rule began to collapse when the Zirid governors seceded, leading the Fatimids to send Arab tribes against them and ushering

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    During the Middle Ages, Muslim Arabs of the Umayyad Caliphate conquered Algeria in the early 8th century. Many indigenous Berbers converted to Islam, though Christians remained the majority until the 10th century. Several local dynasties emerged and ruled over Algeria, including the Rustamids, Aghlabids, Fatimids, Zirids, Hammadids, Almoravids, and Almohads. The Fatimids went on to found a long-lasting dynasty across North Africa and the Levant, with their capital in Cairo. Their rule began to collapse when the Zirid governors seceded, leading the Fatimids to send Arab tribes against them and ushering

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    During the Middle Ages, Muslim Arabs of the Umayyad Caliphate conquered Algeria in the early 8th century. Many indigenous Berbers converted to Islam, though Christians remained the majority until the 10th century. Several local dynasties emerged and ruled over Algeria, including the Rustamids, Aghlabids, Fatimids, Zirids, Hammadids, Almoravids, and Almohads. The Fatimids went on to found a long-lasting dynasty across North Africa and the Levant, with their capital in Cairo. Their rule began to collapse when the Zirid governors seceded, leading the Fatimids to send Arab tribes against them and ushering

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    Main article: Medieval Muslim Algeria

    Mansourah mosque, Tlemcen

    After negligible resistance from the locals, Muslim Arabs of the Umayyad Caliphate conquered


    Algeria in the early 8th century.

    Dihya memorial in Khenchela, Algeria

    Large numbers of the indigenous Berber people converted to Islam. Christians, Berber and Latin
    speakers remained in the great majority in Tunisia until the end of the 9th century and Muslims only
    became a vast majority some time in the 10th. [38] After the fall of the Umayyad Caliphate, numerous
    local dynasties emerged, including
    the Rustamids, Aghlabids, Fatimids, Zirids, Hammadids, Almoravids, Almohads and the Abdalwadid.
    The Christians left in three waves: after the initial conquest, in the 10th century and the 11th. The
    last were evacuated to Sicily by the Normans and the few remaining died out in the 14th century. [38]
    During the Middle Ages, North Africa was home to many great scholars, saints and sovereigns
    including Judah Ibn Quraysh, the first grammarian to mention Semitic and Berber languages, the
    great Sufi masters Sidi Boumediene (Abu Madyan) and Sidi El Houari, and the Emirs Abd Al
    Mu'min and Yāghmūrasen. It was during this time that the Fatimids or children of Fatima, daughter of
    Muhammad, came to the Maghreb. These "Fatimids" went on to found a long lasting dynasty
    stretching across the Maghreb, Hejaz and the Levant, boasting a secular inner government, as well
    as a powerful army and navy, made up primarily of Arabs and Levantines extending from Algeria to
    their capital state of Cairo. The Fatimid caliphate began to collapse when its governors
    the Zirids seceded. In order to punish them the Fatimids sent the Arab Banu Hilal and Banu
    Sulaym against them. The resultant war is recounted in the epic Tāghribāt. In Al-Tāghrībāt the
    Amazigh Zirid Hero Khālīfā Al-Zānatī asks daily, for duels, to defeat the Hilalan hero Ābu Zayd al-
    Hilalī and many other Arab knights in a string of victories. The Zirids, however, were ultimately
    defeated ushering in an adoption of Arab customs and culture. The indigenous Amazigh tribes,
    however, remained largely independent, and depending on tribe, location and time controlled varying
    parts of the Maghreb, at times unifying it (as under the Fatimids). The Fatimid Islamic state, also
    known as Fatimid Caliphate made an Islamic empire that included North Africa,
    Sicily, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, the Red Sea coast of Africa,
    Tihamah, Hejaz and Yemen.[39][40][41] Caliphates from Northern Africa traded with the other empires of
    their time, as well as forming part of a confederated support and trade network with other Islamic
    states during the Islamic Era.

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