''For the Melkite theologian, see Theodore Abu Qurrah'' Abu Qurra () a member of the

Sufri The Sufris ( ar, الصفرية ''aṣ-Ṣufriyya'') were Khariji Muslims in the seventh and eighth centuries. They established the Midrarid state at Sijilmassa, now in Morocco. In Tlemcen, Algeria, the Banu Ifran were Sufri Berbers who oppose ...

te tribe Banu Ifran of

Tlemcen Tlemcen (; ar, تلمسان, translit=Tilimsān) is the second-largest city in northwestern Algeria after Oran, and capital of the Tlemcen Province. The city has developed leather, carpet, and textile industries, which it exports through the p ...

, was the founder of the indigenous Berber Muslim movement with Kharijite tendencies in

North Africa North Africa, or Northern Africa is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of Mauritania in ...

after the overthrow of the

Umayyad dynasty Umayyad dynasty ( ar, بَنُو أُمَيَّةَ, Banū Umayya, Sons of Umayya) or Umayyads ( ar, الأمويون, al-Umawiyyūn) were the ruling family of the Caliphate between 661 and 750 and later of Al-Andalus between 756 and 1031. In t ...

. Between 767 and 776, Abu Qurra organised an army of more than 350,000 riders in the north of Africa.Ibn Khaldun, History of Berber, party Banu Ifran He was the first head of state of the Berber Muslim

Maghreb The Maghreb (; ar, الْمَغْرِب, al-Maghrib, lit=the west), also known as the Arab Maghreb ( ar, المغرب العربي) and Northwest Africa, is the western part of North Africa and the Arab world. The region includes Algeria, ...

. Ibn Khaldun described him in his book ''Kitab El Ibar''.

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8th-century Berber people Berber rulers Berber Muslims Kharijites Ifranid dynasty 8th-century monarchs in Africa {{Algeria-bio-stub