Gzennaya was er al voor de aankomst van de Zenata Imazighen in Arif.
De Riffijnse stammen die vermoedelijk wel een Zenata afkomst of die van grote invloed bij hun totstandkoming is geweest, zijn : Ait Tuzine, Metalsa, Ait Oulichek, Ait Said, Tafersit. Desalniettemin hebben deze stammen ook een autochtoon (of een ouder) Riffijns component in zich, afgaand op de eerdere stammen die daar leefden zoals de Ait Yasliten. Aannemelijk is dat die gedeeltelijk ook hun voorouders zijn. De Meriniden hebben dus de samenstelling en demografie van het Riffijnse volk voor goed veranderd, sinds die tijd.
THE ZENATAN INVASION
The Zenata, one of the great Berber families, according to the genealogists,*-were native
to the northern borders of the Sahara, between between Zab and Tafilelt.* This territory seems to
have been their early habitat and is occupied by members of their group today. They
likewise extended, however, northward along the arm of the Sahara, which reaches up past
Figuig and Tafilelt along the Muluya bed, reaching the sea in the arid expanse of the Garet.*
How early the Zenata, nomads by instinct wandered up the Muluya into the territory of now
called teh Rif is difficultto determine. Before the invasion of the Beni Merin â€" the classic and
official entry of the Zenata â€" various tribes and families of them must have beenworking
their way northward for a long while. El Bekri establishes the presence of Zenata
'two days march' north of Tafilelt.
Zenatan groups called the Zenata of Taberida* ranged
on the outskirts of the territory of Nekor, and the Beni Yala (reigning in TIemcen from
1002 to 1080) whose armies raided the Riffian kingdom, were of Zenatan origin. Further-
more, the Beni Znassen, a Zenatan tribe now living between the Muluya and Ujda, were
noticed in that territory in the thirteenth century.
Whatever the contacts between the Riffians and the Zenata may previously have
been, opportunity for their increase arose when the Beni Merin, the-leading family of the
Zenata, crossed the Atlas and attacked the Muwahaddi empire centered in Fez, The Beni
Merin entered the Rif presumably through the Garet across Beni Tuzin, and defeated
the Muhawaddi army in 1216 in a great battle on the banks of the Nekor, a contest the reputation
of wich today remains in oral tradition to this day
Een veldslag nog mondeling overgeleverd tot in de vroeg 20ste eeuw, misschien nog later.
Abd el Hakk, the Merinid ruler, married a woman of the Ulad Mahalla of Tafersit, according to ibn Khaldun or of Beni Tuzin, according to Marmol. This Riffian woman became the mother of Yakub ibn Abd el Hakk, the third Merinid ruler of Fez, who, through his relation with them, released the Beni Tuzin from all necessity of paying taxes or tribute of any kind. In 1666, four centuries later, the evidence of Frejus indicates, this privilege was withdrawn.
afkomstig uit het boek van CS Coon, the tribes of the Rif.
De Riffijnse stammen die vermoedelijk wel een Zenata afkomst of die van grote invloed bij hun totstandkoming is geweest, zijn : Ait Tuzine, Metalsa, Ait Oulichek, Ait Said, Tafersit. Desalniettemin hebben deze stammen ook een autochtoon (of een ouder) Riffijns component in zich, afgaand op de eerdere stammen die daar leefden zoals de Ait Yasliten. Aannemelijk is dat die gedeeltelijk ook hun voorouders zijn. De Meriniden hebben dus de samenstelling en demografie van het Riffijnse volk voor goed veranderd, sinds die tijd.
THE ZENATAN INVASION
The Zenata, one of the great Berber families, according to the genealogists,*-were native
to the northern borders of the Sahara, between between Zab and Tafilelt.* This territory seems to
have been their early habitat and is occupied by members of their group today. They
likewise extended, however, northward along the arm of the Sahara, which reaches up past
Figuig and Tafilelt along the Muluya bed, reaching the sea in the arid expanse of the Garet.*
How early the Zenata, nomads by instinct wandered up the Muluya into the territory of now
called teh Rif is difficultto determine. Before the invasion of the Beni Merin â€" the classic and
official entry of the Zenata â€" various tribes and families of them must have beenworking
their way northward for a long while. El Bekri establishes the presence of Zenata
'two days march' north of Tafilelt.
Zenatan groups called the Zenata of Taberida* ranged
on the outskirts of the territory of Nekor, and the Beni Yala (reigning in TIemcen from
1002 to 1080) whose armies raided the Riffian kingdom, were of Zenatan origin. Further-
more, the Beni Znassen, a Zenatan tribe now living between the Muluya and Ujda, were
noticed in that territory in the thirteenth century.
Whatever the contacts between the Riffians and the Zenata may previously have
been, opportunity for their increase arose when the Beni Merin, the-leading family of the
Zenata, crossed the Atlas and attacked the Muwahaddi empire centered in Fez, The Beni
Merin entered the Rif presumably through the Garet across Beni Tuzin, and defeated
the Muhawaddi army in 1216 in a great battle on the banks of the Nekor, a contest the reputation
of wich today remains in oral tradition to this day
Een veldslag nog mondeling overgeleverd tot in de vroeg 20ste eeuw, misschien nog later.
Abd el Hakk, the Merinid ruler, married a woman of the Ulad Mahalla of Tafersit, according to ibn Khaldun or of Beni Tuzin, according to Marmol. This Riffian woman became the mother of Yakub ibn Abd el Hakk, the third Merinid ruler of Fez, who, through his relation with them, released the Beni Tuzin from all necessity of paying taxes or tribute of any kind. In 1666, four centuries later, the evidence of Frejus indicates, this privilege was withdrawn.
afkomstig uit het boek van CS Coon, the tribes of the Rif.