Zirid dynasty

Zirid dynasty
972–1148
Zirid territory (green) at its maximum extent around the year 980
Zirid territory (green) at its maximum extent around the year 980
StatusVassals of the Fatimid Caliphate (972–1048)
Independent (1048–1148)
CapitalAchir (before 1014), Kairouan (from 1014 to 1057),
Mahdia (after 1057)[1]
Common languagesBerber (primary), Maghrebi Arabic, African Latin, Hebrew
Religion
Islam (Shia Islam, Sunni, Ibadi), Christianity (Roman Catholicism), Judaism
GovernmentMonarchy (Emirate)
Emir 
• 973–984
Buluggin ibn Ziri
• 1121–1148
Abu'l-Hasan al-Hasan ibn Ali
History 
• Established
972
• Disestablished
1148
CurrencyDinar
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Fatimid Caliphate
Hammadid dynasty
Kingdom of Africa
Khurasanid dynasty
Today part of

The Zirid dynasty were a Berber group. They were from what is now modern Algeria. The capital was Achir.

The Hammadids came from this group.

  1. Phillip C. Naylor (15 January 2015). North Africa, Revised Edition: A History from Antiquity to the Present. University of Texas Press. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-292-76190-2.

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