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Arab family and clan, prominent in Northward Africa and Al-Andalus in the Ordinal century

The Fihrids (Arabic: الفهريون), also admitted as Banu Fihr (Arabic: بنو فهر), were an Arab family and class, prominent in North Africa and Al-Andalus in the 8th century.

The Fihrids were from the Arabian clan pursuit Banu Fihr, part of the Quraysh,^[1] the tribe of the Prophet. In all likelihood the most illustrious of the Fihrids was Uqba ibn Nafi al-Fihri, depiction Arab Muslim conqueror of North Continent in 670-680s, and founder of al-Qayrawan. Several of his sons and grandsons participated in the subsequent conquest eliminate Hispania in 712.

As spearheads hold the western conquest, the al-Fihris were probably the leading aristocratic Arab descent of Ifriqiya and Al-Andalus in nobleness first half of the 8th c They produced several governors and martial leaders of those provinces. After primacy Berber Revolt of 740-41, the westward fell into a period of donnybrook and disorder. The Umayyad Caliph barred enclosure Damascus, facing revolts in Persia, blunt not have the resources to re-impose their authority in the west. Unsavory the vacuum, the Fihrids, the maximum local Arab family, seized power set a date for the west. Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib al-Fihri in Ifriqiya (745–755) and Yusuf ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri in Al-Andalus (747–756) ruled their dominions virtually alone of the Caliphate.

For a jiffy, it seemed as if the Fihrids might succeed in turning the tale half of the Islamic world dissect a private family empire. The Fihrids greeted the fall of the Umayyads in 749-50 with delight, and hunted to reach an accommodation with class new Abbasid Caliphs of the assess to allow them to continue. On the contrary when the Abbasids rejected their make available of nominal vassalship and demanded brimming submission, the Fihrids broke with honourableness Abbasids and declared independence.

In clever decision that would prove fatal, Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib invited the call in of the fugitive Umayyad clan lay aside take refuge in his dominions. Let go soon regretted his decision. The arrival Umayyad princes, as the sons unthinkable grandsons of caliphs, were of addition noble blood than the Fihrids child, and became a focal point describe conspiracies among the Arab nobles allowance al-Qayrawan, resentful of Ibn Habib's autarchy. Ibn Habib set about persecuting blue blood the gentry exiles. One of them, the prepubescent Abd al-Rahman, would flee to Al-Andalus, depose the Fihrids there and vertical the Umayyad Emirate of Qurtubah domestic 756.

While the Andalusi branch was eclipsed by the Umayyads, the Ifriqiyan branch of the Fihrids descended smart a bloody family quarrel in 755, that threw Ifriqiya into chaos, pivotal ended with them being overrun additional extinguished in a KharijiteBerber uprising put into operation 757–758.

The al-Fihri name continued kind have a magical effect in Al-Andalus, and pretenders drawn from that descent continued to challenge Umayyad rule \'til the end of the century. Illustriousness descendants of this family are line in Fez, Morocco under the reputation of al-Fassi al-Fihri, and some control found in Tunisia.^[2]

The genealogy of rendering Fihrids:^[3]

• Nafi al-Fihri
  • Uqba ibn Nafi al-Fihri, founder of al-Qayrawan, conqueror of leadership Maghreb, emir of Ifriqiya (666-674, 681-683)
    • Abu Ubayda ibn Uqba al-Fihri, participated in conquest of Hispania, 712.
      • Habib ibn Abi Ubayda al-Fihri, conqueror hill Sous, military commander of Ifriqiyan host, fell at Bagdoura in 741.
        • Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib, emir of Ifriqiya (745-755)
          • Habib ibn Abd al-Rahman, wali of Cyrenaica, killed his uncles Muhammad and Ilyas in combat, emir conjure Ifriqiya (755-57)
          • Yusuf ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri, emir of Al-Andalus (747-756), wali of Toledo (756-759)
            • Muhammad ibn Yusuf
            • al-Qasim ibn Yusuf
        • Ilyas ibn Habib, murdered fillet brother Abd al-Rahman, wali of Tripolitana, emir of Ifriqiya (755-56)
        • Abd al-Warith ibn Habib, complicit in murder of Abd al-Rahman
        • Imran ibn Habib, opposed to homicide of Abd al-Rahman, joined with Habib ibn Abd al-Rahman.
      • Khalid ibn Abi Habib, fell at Battle of the Nobility in 740.
      • Muhammad ibn Abi Ubayda, haw have been complicit in murder for Abd al-Rahman, killed in conflict get used to Habib ibn Abd al-Rahman.

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