Emirate of Nekor إمارة بني صالح | |||||||||
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710–1019 | |||||||||
![]() The Emirate of Nekor (yellow) at the time of the Idrisid dynasty. | |||||||||
Status | Client state of the Umayyad Caliphate (710–750) | ||||||||
Capital | Temsaman (710–760) Nekor (760–1019) | ||||||||
Common languages | Arabic Berber | ||||||||
Religion | Islam | ||||||||
Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
Emir | |||||||||
• 710–749 | Salih I ibn Mansur | ||||||||
• 947–970 | Jurthum ibn Ahmad | ||||||||
Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Established | 710 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1019 | ||||||||
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History of Morocco |
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Historical Arab states and dynasties |
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The Emirate of Nekor or Salihid Emirate (Arabic: إمارة بني صالح, romanized: ʾImārat Banī Ṣāliḥ) was an Arab emirate centered in the Rif area of present-day Morocco. Its capital was initially located at Temsaman, and then moved to Nekor. The dynasty was of Himyarite Arab descent from a certain companion of Uqba ibn Nafi (d. 683).[1] The emirate was founded in 710 CE by Salih I ibn Mansur through a Caliphate grant. Under his guidance, the local Berber tribes adopted Islam, but later deposed him in favor of one az-Zaydi from the Nafza tribe. They subsequently changed their mind and reappointed Ibn Mansur. His dynasty, the Banū Sālih, thereafter ruled the region until 1019.