The Banu Isam were a

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dynasty that ruled

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, for four generations. The town had been destroyed in a rebellion, and was lying waste; sometime in the middle of the 9th century, Mâjakas, chief of the Berber Majkasa tribe, resettled it and founded a dynasty that ruled the town until the Umayyads took it over in 931.''Sabta'', Halima Ferhat, ''The Encyclopaedia of Islam'', Vol. 8, ed. C.E. Bosworth, E. Van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs and G. Lecomte, (Brill, 1995), 690; "'' It was a refuge for Arab forces during the Kharidjite rebellion, an Idrisid principality (it was allegedly occupied by Idris I in 173/789-90), as the capital of the Banu 'Isam, who appear more as an independent dynasty than as Idrisid governors, occupied by the Umayyads of Cordova in 319/931 and became a pawn in the struggle against the Fatimids.''" Its kings were: *Mâjakas *`Isâm, son of Mâjakas *Majîr, son of `Isâm *Ridâ, son of `Isâm (?-931), who paid allegiance to the Idrisids, but surrendered the city to the

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s when the Idrisid capital fell.

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