A Maʿqil Arab tribe from the Atlantic coast, long linked to the Aït Atta without being a khoms. At odds with the Sbah for about a hundred years, they became partisans of the Aït Khebbach, to whom a tafergant pact binds them, and fought alongside them in the Touat (1901-1902), at Boudenib and in the Tafilalet (from 1907). Spillmann recalls the memory of their expeditions to the Touat, Gourara and Tidikelt in 1709, 1864 and 1887. Around 1930 they are settled in the Ktaoua, at Mhamid and in the Tafilalet, with a supreme sheikh chosen by rotation among their sections.
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Classifications according to the sources
- Arab tribe “long linked to the Aït Atta”, outside the five khmas.Spillmann (2007), trad. p. 61 (orig. p. 74)
Sources — 1 sources cited · 1 independent documentary line(s)
- Spillmann et al., 2007 — trad. p. 61, 80-81 (orig. p. 74, 95-96)Excerpts consulted · Colonial military