The Zenata Berber leader Khalid ibn Hamid…
December 741 CE
The Zenata Berber leader Khalid ibn Hamid al-Zanati, who has delivered the two great victories over the Arab armies, disappears from the chronicles shortly after Bagdoura, but news of the defeat emboldens hitherto quiet Berber tribes to join the revolt.
Berber uprisings erupt across the Maghreb and al-Andalus.
The most immediate threat arises in southern Ifriqiya, where the Sufrite leader Oqasha ibn Ayub al-Fezari raises a Berber army and lays siege to Gabès and …
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People
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Arab people
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Persian people
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Berber people (also called Amazigh people or Imazighen, "free men", singular Amazigh)
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Moors
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Muslims, Sunni
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Muslims, Kharijite
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Umayyad Caliphate (Damascus)
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Syrian people
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Zenata (Berber tribal confederacy)
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Ifriqiya, Ummayad
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al-Andalus (Andalusia), Muslim-ruled
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Barghawata Confederacy (Masmuda Berber tribal confederacy)
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Abbasid Caliphate (Kufa)
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