Sanhaja

Noun

Meaning

Sanhaja pl (plural only)

(historical) One of the largest Berber tribal confederations, along with the Zanata and Masmuda.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Anagrams

najasah

Examples

After winning over the Sanhaja Berber tribe, they quickly took control of the entire desert trade route, seizing Sijilmasa at the northern end in 1054, and Aoudaghost at the southern end in 1055. Source: Internet

Linked to the Kabyle Sanhaja were the Kutama tribes, whose support worked to establish the Fatimid Caliphate (909-1171, only until 1049 in Ifriqiya); their vassals and later successors in Ifriqiya the Zirids (973-1160) were also Sanhaja. Source: Internet

He had earlier (935) built his own house and a Sanhaja center at Ashir, just south of Algiers. Source: Internet

For the Lamtuna leadership, this new ideology dovetailed with their long desire to refound the Sanhaja union and recover their lost dominions. Source: Internet

The Almoravids (1056-1147) first began far south of Morocco, among the Lamtuna Sanhaja. Source: Internet

The Almoravids veiled themselves below the eyes with a tagelmust a custom they adapted from southern Sanhaja Berbers. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

sanguivory sangza Sanhadja Sanhaja de Srair Sanhe sanhedrim