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Banu Isam

The Banu Isam were a Muslim Berber dynasty that ruled Ceuta for four generations. The town had been destroyed in a Kharijite rebellion, and was lying waste; sometime in the middle of the ninth century, Mājakas, chief of the Majkasa tribe, resettled it and founded a dynasty that ruled the town until the Umayyads took it over in 931.

Its kings were:

  • Mājakas
  • `Isām, son of Mājakas
  • Majīr, son of `Isām
  • Ridā, son of `Isām (?-931), who paid allegiance to the Idrisid s, but surrendered the city to the Umayyads when the Idrisid capital fell.

See also: History of Ceuta.



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