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Kutāma
Berber tribe
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history of Islamic North Africa
- In North Africa: The Fāṭimids and Zīrids
…Allāh al-Shīʿī, operated among the Kutāma of the Little Kabylia region in eastern Algeria from 901. The sedentary Kutāma were pious and unsophisticated Muslim Berbers living in small village communities. Aghlabid rule in the region was represented by fortified garrison posts manned by Arab troops, by whom the Kutāma were…
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