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Hammadid Dynasty

Zirid offshoot ruling the central Maghreb from the Qal'a of the Beni Hammad and Béjaïa.

The Hammadid Dynasty was conquered by the Almohad Caliphate in 1152: Abd al-Mu'min captured Béjaïa in August 1152 and the last emir Yahya ibn Abd al-Aziz surrendered on 10 November 1152, dying in comfortable exile in Salé in 1163.

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Further reading

• A History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period Jamil M. Abun-Nasr · 1987

  Treats the Hammadid offshoot ruling the central Maghreb from the Qal'a and Béjaïa.

• The Berbers Michael Brett and Elizabeth Fentress · 1996

  The Berber central Maghreb of the Hammadids (broad context).

Sources

• Hammadid dynasty — Wikipedia