Zawi ibn Ziri as-Sanhaji or Al-Mansur Zawi ibn Ziri ibn Manad as-Sanhaji (Arabic: المنصور زاوي بن زيري بن مناد الصنهاجي), was a chief in the Berber Sanhaja...
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their allies the Maghrawa, and Zawi ibn Ziri. This success was largely due to another great-uncle, Hammad ibn Buluggin, who defeated another Zenatan attack...
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battle by Hammad ibn Buluggin, Badis' uncle, and most of the brothers were killed. The only remaining brother of stature, Zawi ibn Ziri, led the remaining...
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brothers, including Zawi ibn Ziri, rebelled against his grandson, Badis ibn al-Mansur, due to their exclusion from power by Buluggin and his descendants...
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to abandon Morocco in 985. After Buluggin's death, rule of the Zirid state passed to his son, Al-Mansur ibn Buluggin (r. 984–996), and continued through...
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from 1019 to 1038. He was the successor to his uncle Zawi ben Ziri. His first Vizier was Samuel ibn Naghrillah, the renowned Jewish scholar and politician...
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of power by founding Qalâa in the Hodna region (Béjaïa in 1090). Later, Zawi founded the Taifa of Granada in Al Andalus. During the French Conquest of...
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