The Massufa are a Berber tribe whom belong to the Sanhaja.[1][2] The ancestor of the Massufa, Adjana, had settled near the Chelif river in the central Maghreb.[3] The Massufa are identifiable with the Masofi (Massufa) and their territory, known as “Bilad Massufa” (country of the Massufa) was located in the eastern region of Jebel Titteri during the Severan era (3rd century AD).[1] This important tribal confederation were ruled by the Talkata branch, that of the Zirids in the 10th century.[1]
The location of the Massufa tribe in the 11th century[4]
A number of Berber tribes fled southward during the Arab invasion.[2] The Massufa are listed among the Sanhaja tribes who were displaced from the north.[2] Ibn Khaldun commented on these tribes and stated that the Sanhaja are indigenous people of the region and placed the kings of the Lamtuna and Massufa in the meeting of the middle Maghreb, he also mentioned that the Massufa were present in the Gourara.[2][3]: 86
The Banu Ghaniya, a dynasty that ruled in the Balearic Islands and then in Ifriqiya were Massufa in origin.[5]
^ abcKamal, NAÏT-ZERRAD, and Salem CHAKER. "S21. SANHAJA (Sanhadja, Senhaja et autres graphies)." pp.7211-7212.
central Maghreb. The Massufa are identifiable with the Masofi (Massufa) and their territory, known as “Bilad Massufa” (country of the Massufa) was located in...
1147. The Almoravids emerged from a coalition of the Lamtuna, Gudala, and Massufa, nomadic Berber tribes living in what is now Mauritania and the Western...
explorer Ibn Battuta found the inhabitants of Oualata were Muslim and mainly Massufa, a section of the Sanhaja. He was surprised by the great respect and independence...
Berber.: 99 In the mid-11th century, they allied with the Guddala and Massufa Berber. At that time, the Almoravid leader Yahya ibn Ibrahim went on a...
in reference to the blue face covering)] is a confederation of: Lemta, Massufa, Warith/Banū Warit, Lamtuna/Ilemteyen, Gudāla/Djudalla/Gazzula/Geuzula/Gaetuli...
The Banu Ghaniya were a Massufa Sanhaja Berber dynasty and a branch of the Almoravids. Their first leader, Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Yusuf, a son of Ali ibn...
Anti-Atlas range; further south, encamped in the western Sahara, were the Massufa, the Lamtuna and the Banu Warith; and most southerly of all, the Gudala...
street to the south of the Zawiya of Sidi Bel Abbes. Bab Moussoufa (or Bab Massufa) is an Almoravid gate whose history is uncertain but whose location is...
Global Information