People / group
Awraba
The Awraba were a Berber tribal confederation of north-western Africa. In the 7th century their leader Kusaila, a Christian, led resistance to the Arab conquest and defeated and killed the Arab commander Uqba ibn Nafi in 683. Later Muslim and settled around Volubilis in Morocco, in 788 they welcomed the Alid refugee Idris I and recognised him as imam, founding the Idrisid state.
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