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Emir of Maghreb
Buluggin ibn Ziri
Emir of Maghreb
A statue of Buluggin ibn Ziri on the heights of the Casbah of Algiers
Reign
972 – 984
Successor
Al-Mansur ibn Buluggin
Born
Titteri region (present-day Algeria)
Died
May 984 in Sijilmasa[1] or Ouarekcen[2]
Names
Abu'l-Futuh Sayf al-Dawla Buluggin ibn Ziri ibn Manad al-Sanhaji
Dynasty
Zirids
Father
Ziri ibn Manad
Religion
Islam
Buluggin ibn Ziri, often transliterated Bologhine, in full ʾAbū al Futūḥ Sayf ad Dawlah Bulukīn ibn Zīrī ibn Manād aṣ Ṣanhājī (Arabic: أبو الفتوح سيف الدولة بلكين بن زيري بن مناد الصنهاجي; died 984) was the first leader (r. 972–984) of the Sanhaja Berber dynasty of Zirids to serve as viceroy of Ifriqiya under the Fatimid Caliphs, founding a dynasty that continued to rule the region after him.[3][4]
Bologhine, a suburb in the city of Algiers, is named after him.
^Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong; Henry Louis Gates (2 February 2012). Dictionary of African Biography. OUP USA. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-19-538207-5.
^Petite histoire de la Tunisie / Par Mlle L. Métivier ; avec une introduction de M. d'Estournelles de Constant. 1910.
^Bosworth, Clifford Edmund (1996). The New Islamic Dynasties. Columbia University Press. pp. 35–36. ISBN 978-0-231-10714-3.
^Jiwa, Shainool (2017). The Fatimids: 1 - The Rise of a Muslim Empire. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 134–135. ISBN 978-1-78673-174-6.
BulugginibnZiri, often transliterated Bologhine, in full ʾAbū al Futūḥ Sayf ad Dawlah Bulukīn ibnZīrīibn Manād aṣ Ṣanhājī (Arabic: أبو الفتوح سيف الدولة...
Caliphate, Zayyanid dynasty, Marinid Sultanate and Hafsid dynasty. Under BulugginibnZiri the Zirids extended their control westwards and briefly occupied Fez...
son BulugginibnZiri founded the cities of Algiers, Miliana and Médéa (Lamdiya), and rebuilt the settlements destroyed in the revolt. In 959 Ziri successfully...
Zawi ibnZiri as-Sanhaji or Al-Mansur Zawi ibnZiriibn Manad as-Sanhaji (Arabic: المنصور زاوي بن زيري بن مناد الصنهاجي), was a chief in the Berber Sanhaja...
Church since 1967. Miliana was (re)founded in the 10th century by BulugginibnZiri on the site of the ancient Roman city of Zuccabar (or "Succhabar")...
Abdallah ibnBuluggin (Arabic: عبد الله بن بلقين), full name: ʿAbd Allāh ben Buluggīn ben Bādīs ben Ḥabūs ben Zīrī (1056–after 1090), also known as "Al-Muzaffar"...
The Zirids conquered the western Maghreb in 979 when BulugginIbnZiri led a campaign to expand his territory. He captured most of present-day Morocco...
now Algeria (1014–1028). After the death of his father BulugginibnZiri, al-Mansur ibnBuluggin (984–995), Hammad's brother, became the head of the Zirid...
between Ibn Attiya and another tribal chief who had abandoned the Fatimids—the uncle of al-Mansur ibnBuluggin, son and successor of BulugginibnZiri. So...
concerns. Before leaving for Egypt, al-Mu'izz had installed BulugginibnZiri, the son of Ziri bn Manad (who died in 971), as his viceroy in the Maghreb...
until August 972 that al-Mu'izz left Ifriqiya, appointing the Berber BulugginibnZiri as his viceroy there. In June 973, the Fatimid court arrived in Egypt...
of the Catholic Church September 9 – Warin, archbishop of Cologne BulugginibnZiri, ruler (emir) of the Zirid Dynasty Domnall Claen, king of Leinster...
name the Shi'a caliphate rule. The first chosen ruler was BulugginibnZiri, son of Ziriibn Manad (died 971), the Sanhaja Berber chieftain who had saved...
971. When the Fatimids moved their capital to Egypt in 972, Ziri's son BulugginibnZiri (r. 971–984) was appointed viceroy of Ifriqiya. He soon led a...
Leglay Only in the 10th century started to be again developed by BulugginibnZiri, a Berber who funded Algeria under zirid dynasty, to what is now the...
cities of Algiers and Miliana are re-founded by the Zirid ruler (emir) BulugginibnZiri. The Al-Askari Mosque is built in Samarra (modern Iraq). Abd al-Malik...
Cordoba and fled to Egypt, which was now under Fatimid rule. In 979 BulugginibnZiri, the Fatimid governor of Ifriqiya (after the Fatimid Caliphs had their...
regions during a major expedition by BulugginibnZiri, the new Zirid ruler. The Maghrawa reached their peak under Ziriibn Atiyya (d. 1001), who achieved supremacy...
Polish history – strengthens Mieszko's hold over Western Pomerania. BulugginibnZiri is appointed viceroy in Ifriqiya (modern Tunisia) and becomes the...
1420[citation needed] BulugginibnZiri, Zirid ruler who founded the cities of Algiers, Médéa and Miliana.[citation needed] Badis Ibn Habus, defeated the...
Polish history – strengthens Mieszko's hold over Western Pomerania. BulugginibnZiri is appointed viceroy in Ifriqiya (modern Tunisia) and becomes the...
Tunisia) to the newly founded city of Cairo in Egypt. He leaves general BulugginibnZiri to govern the Western North African territories, which will become...
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