Kutama
Amazigh (berber) tribe in northern Algeria
6 dated entries naming Kutama, drawn from 6 separate years between 901 CE and 914 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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10th century
- 901Abu 'Abdullah al-Shi'i leads the rebellion of the Kutama Berbers (a movement of the Shiʿite Fatimids), against the Aghlabid emirate in Ifriqiya (modern Tunisia).source
- 902The Kutama tribe under Abu Abdallah al-Shi'i revolt against the Aghlabids. He begins a campaign and dispatches an invitation to the Fatimid spiritual leader Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi Billah to support him.source
- 909The Berber Kutama tribesmen under Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah capture the cities of Kairouan and Raqqada. The capital city of the Rustamid imamate, Tihert is destroyed. The remaining Ibadi are forced into the desert.source
- 911A rebellion of the Kutama Berbers against the Fatimid Caliphate occurs. The Kutama tribesmen were previously the main supporters of the Shia regime.source
- 912The second rebellion in two years, of the Kutama tribesmen against the Fatimid Caliphate, occurs.source
- 914January 24 – The Fatimid general, Hubasa ibn Yusuf of the Kutama Berber tribe, marches out with his troops to invade Egypt. He follows the coastline, and takes possession of the only two towns of any size Syrte and Ajdabiya, without a struggle. The garrisons of the two towns—the westernmost outposts of the Abbasid Caliphate—have already fled.source
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- Fatimid Caliphate (5)
- Berbers (2)
- Shia Islam (2)
- Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah (2)
- Abbasid Caliphate (1)
- Tunisia (1)
- Ifriqiya (1)
- Aghlabids (1)
- Berber people (1)
- Kairouan (1)