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Idrisid dynasty

Arab Muslim dynasty that ruled parts of present-day Morocco and parts of western Algeria

9 dated entries naming Idrisid dynasty, drawn from 8 separate years between 745 CE and 974 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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8th century

  • 745Idris I, emir and founder of the Idrisid dynasty (d. 791)source
  • 786June 11 – Battle of Fakhkh: An Alid uprising in Medina is crushed by the Abbasids. One of the Alids, Idris ibn Abdallah, flees to the Maghreb in western North Africa, where he later founds the Idrisid dynasty in 788/789.source
  • 788Idris ibn Abdallah, known as the "founder of Morocco", settles in Volubilis, beginning the reign of the Idrisid Dynasty (Morocco had effectively been independent from the Arab caliphates since the Great Berber Revolt).source
  • 789Idris I reaches Volubilis and founds the Idrisid dynasty, ceding Morocco from the Abbasid caliphate and founding the first Moroccan state.source
  • 791Emir Idris I, founder of the Idrisid dynasty and kingdom of Morocco, is poisoned on orders of Caliph Harun al-Rashid. He is succeeded by his son Idris II (only just two months old), who is raised by his mother Kenza among the Berbers of Volubilis.source
  • 791Idris I, emir and founder of the Idrisid dynasty (b. 745)source
  • 793Idriss I, Muslim emir and founder of the Idrisid Dynasty (or 791)source

10th century

  • 921The Fatimid Caliphate crushes Idrisid forces in battle, capturing the cities of Tlemcen and Fez.source
  • 974An offensive, by the Spain-based Caliphate of Córdoba brings the Maghrebi Idrisid Dynasty to an end. Caliph Al-Hakam II maintains the supremacy of the caliphate over the kingdoms of Navarra, Castile and León.source

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