Sanhaja

Sanhaja Berber dynasty 972-1148

moribund Amazigh (Berber) language of Mauritania and Senegal

Theologian, founder of Almoravid movement

The Sanhaja (, or ; , pl. , and , pl. ) were a large Berber tribal confederation, along with the Zanata and Masmuda confederations. Many tribes in Algeria, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Senegal, Tunisia and Western Sahara bore and still carry this ethnonym, especially in its Berber form.

thumb|left|A verse from al-Busiri's poem al-Burda on the wall of his shrine in [[Alexandria]] Al-Būṣīrī (; 1212–1294) was a Sanhaji Sufi Sunni Muslim poet belonging to the Shadhili, and a direct disciple of the Sufi saint Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi. His magnum opus, the Qaṣīda al-Burda "Poem of the Mantle" in praise of Prophet Muhammad is one of the most popular Islamic poems of the genre. It is in Arabic, as is his other ode named "Al-Hamziyya".

First leader of the Sanhaja Berber dynasty of Zirids (r. 972–984)

thumb|The location of the Lamtuna tribe in the 11th century The Lamtuna () are a nomadic Berber tribe belonging to the Iẓnagen / Sanhaja (Zenaga) confederation, who traditionally inhabited areas from Sous to Adrar Plateau. During the Almoravid period, many Lamtunas emigrated northwards. Currently, the Lemtuna Tribe is based in the South of Mauritania (Monguel and Agueilat). The chief of this Tribe is Mr. Limam Ould Teguedi (former Minister of Justice, former Minister of Culture and former Attorney General of Mauritania). Among notable families are the family of Ehl Aly Ibn Ibrahim, the family

Founder of the Zirid dynasty (died 971)

Amazigh (Berber) tribal chief

Moroccan linguist

Zawiya in Morocco

Andalusi poet of Berber origin (958–1030)

The Reguibat (; variously transliterated Reguibate, Rguibat, ''R'gaybat, R'gibat, Erguibat, Ergaybat'') is a Sahrawi tribal confederation of mixed Arab and Sanhaja Berber origins. The Reguibat speak Hassaniya Arabic, and are Arab in culture. They claim descent from Sidi Ahmed al-Reguibi, an Arab Islamic preacher from Beni Hassan who settled in Saguia el-Hamra in 1503. They also believe that they are, through him, a chorfa tribe, i.e. descendants of Muhammad. They are divided into two main geographical divisions - the Reguibat as-Sahel and Reguibat ash-Sharg - who are in turn divided into sub t

Moroccan state official and poet (1549–1621)

andalusian writer

12th-century almohad chronicler

Moroccan poet, Sufi and mystic (1506–1568)

Moroccan writer

historian, poet

legal scholar

dynasty