Zirids (972-1152 CE)
Banu Ziri, part of the Talkata branch of the Sanhadja (Ṣanhājah) Berber group, were one of the tribal allies of the Fatimids, whose power base at the time was in Ifriqiya (Ifrīqīyah) (Tunisia and eastern Algeria), against the Umayyad Caliphs…