Brahmin fassi fihri biography of martin
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Brahmin fassi fihri biography of martin
Fihrids
Arab family and clan, prominent in North Africa and Al-Andalus in the 8th century
The Fihrids (Arabic: الفهريون), also known as Banu Fihr (Arabic: بنو فهر), were an Arab family and clan, prominent in North Africa and Al-Andalus in the 8th century.
The Fihrids were from the Arabian clan of Banu Fihr, part of the Quraysh,[1] the tribe of the Prophet. Probably the most illustrious of the Fihrids was Uqba ibn Nafi al-Fihri, the Arab Muslim conqueror of North Africa in 670-680s, and founder of al-Qayrawan.
Several of his sons and grandsons participated in the subsequent conquest of Hispania in 712.
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As spearheads of the western conquest, the al-Fihris were probably the leading aristocratic Arab family of Ifriqiya and Al-Andalus in the first half of the 8th century. They produced several governors and military leaders of those provinces.
After the Berber Revolt of 740-41, the west fell into a period of anarchy and disorder. The Umayyad Caliph in Damascus, faci