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Moulay 'Abdallah bin l-Hsain

مولاي عبد الله بن حساين

Patron saint of the Aït Atta, buried at Tamslouht; tradition credits him with authorising the codification of their customary law.

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Died
c. 1568, Tamslouht Confirmed by a verified source
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Mûlây 'Abdallah bin l-Hsain · Moulay Abdallah Ben Hassein · Moulay Abdallah Ben Hussein

Biography

Died in 1568 or 1571 according to Hart. His descendants, the shurfa of the Ulad Mulay 'Abdallah, lived notably at Tiniurshan, near Igharm Amazdar, where they kept the Aït Atta war banner and camel-skin documents called the “Agreements of the Five Fifths”.

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Sources — 1 sources cited · 1 independent documentary line(s)

  1. Hart, 1966 — p. 93, n. 4Excerpts consulted · Academic research

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  1. c. 1568Confirmed by a verified source

    Death of Mulay 'Abdallah bin l-Hsain, patron saint of the Aït Atta

    According to Hart, he died in 1568 or 1571 and was buried at Tamslouht, near Marrakesh. Aït Atta tradition credits him with authorising the codification of their customary law.

    ⌖ Tamslouht

    Sources — 1 sources cited · 1 independent documentary line(s)

    1. Hart, 1966 — p. 93, n. 4Excerpts consulted · Academic research

Source pages

  1. ConfirmsPage reproduced — « 'Atta (Ayt) », § 1-2

    The Ayt ʿAtta form a “supertribe” whose tribes all claim descent from Dadda ʿAtta without being able to trace their links to him; the oldest known mention is Marmol Carvajal's (1571), and the confederation would have organised in the 16th century against the Maʿqil Arabs.

    Printed text page of the Encyclopédie berbère, PDF p. 2, § 1-2
    « D. Hart considère les Ayt ‘Atta comme une « supertribu » parce que toutes les tribus qui les composent se réclament d'un ancêtre commun Dadda ‘Atta, bien qu'aucune ne soit capable de retracer exactement ses liens généalogiques avec ce personnage qui n'est pas entièrement légendaire. »

    1989 encyclopedic entry, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence for the text: the page is reproduced unmodified.

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