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...

Ajdabiya (in present-day Libya). One member of the dynastic family, Zawi ibn Ziri, revolted and fled to al-Andalus, eventually founding the Taifa of Granada...

Zenata, their allies the Maghrawa, and Zawi ibn Ziri. This success was largely due to another great-uncle, Hammad ibn Buluggin, who defeated another Zenatan...

In 999, many of Buluggin's brothers, including Zawi ibn Ziri, rebelled against his grandson, Badis ibn al-Mansur, due to their exclusion from power by...

but they and their caliph were defeated in the vicinity of Granada by Zawi ibn Ziri. Shortly after this Mubarak and Muzaffar died (possibly due to a rebellion...

983 – After failing in a rebellion in the Maghreb, the Berber Chief Zawi ibn Ziri, of the Tunisian royal family, brings a formidable force of Sanhaja...

Zawi ibn Ziri. Abd al-Rahman IV had been proclaimed caliph on April 29, 1018. In order to deter an attack on Córdoba, a siege on Granada, where Zawi Ibn...

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...

and Tlemcen. The first known leader of the Talkāta was Menad ibn Manḳūs, whose son Ziri is the ancestor of the Zirid dynasty and the founder of their...

collapsed after 1009 and the Fitna (civil war) began, the Zirid leader Zawi ben Ziri established an independent kingdom for himself, the Taifa of Granada...